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With so much happening at CPS we can no longer limit ourselves to one Current Feature. Here are a number of exciting new features to peruse.
The Alchemy of Democracy,
Restoring Soul to Culture
A Gathering
of Visionary Citizens June 13-18, 2004
Esalen Institute Weekend
Workshop
"Reclaiming the High Ground:
Stories We Live By, Visions We Create, Actions We Take"
On-Line
Education
Goddard College
announces a new concentration of studies in its Teacher
Education program based on the work of Riane Eisler.
THE
POWER OF PARTNERSHIP:
Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life
Just
Released in Paperback! A Powerful New Guide to a Better Life and a Better
World!
Tomorrow's
Children:
Partnership Education in Action
Now
Available, A New Video featuring Riane Eisler!
Riane Eisler is speaking on Monday June 14 at 11:30 a.m. at:
"The Alchemy of Democracy,
Restoring Soul to Culture"
June 13-18, 2004
Asilomar Conference Grounds,
Pacific Grove, CA
A Gathering of Visionary Citizens
Just Added
-- 2 outstanding members
of Congress: U.S. Rep. Lynne Woolsey (D-CA) and U.S. Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
-Monterey area.
Both were early co-sponsors of Dennis Kucinich's Dept. of Peace bill, voted
against the pre-emptive war in Iraq and are environmental guardians.
Confirmed Speakers:
Peter Camejo, Peter Coyote, Caroline Casey, Gordon Davidson, Riane Eisler, Matt
Gonzalez, Tom Hayden, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Van Jones, David Korten, Fred Luskin,
Corinne McLaughlin, Carrie Olson (of MoveOn.org), James O'Dea (pres. of IONS),
Ocean Robbins, Danny Sheehan, Swami Beyondananda, Lynne Twist, Sarah van Gelder
(ed. of Yes! magazine), John Vasconcellos, and others. Music, poetry, dance,
yoga and meditation will deepen the conference experience.
Contact:
Praxis Peace Institute at 707-939-2973
Website:
www.praxispeace.org
E-mail: praxispeace@aol.com
This 5-day conference will focus on building bridges between spiritual consciousness and political consciousness --- creating a vibrant and transformed political environment. We will focus on the politics of hope, possibility and civic participation --- the Alchemy of Democracy. Programs include Out-of-the-box creative thinking and dialogues, inspiring plenary session and experiential learning through workshops, and many opportunities for networking.
Don't miss this leading edge exploration into conscious personal and political transformation! We are meeting at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Grounds (on 105 wooded acres across the street from the beach!).
Please visit our website for details: www.praxispeace.org or call our office at 707-939-2973
Reclaiming the High Ground:
Stories We Live By, Visions We Create, Actions We Take
August 6-8, 2004 is a unique opportunity to spend a weekend at Esalen with one of the most original and wise thinkers of our time. Riane Eisler has ignited the visions and actions of individuals and organizations worldwide. An award-winning author (The Chalice and The Blade), psychosocial researcher, and social activist, Eisler has inspired people around the globe with her cultural transformation work that integrates the personal, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual.
Eisler's passion takes abstract-sounding words like "national," "global," and " moral" and makes them catch fire. In this workshop she will offer positive alternatives to the fear-based stories and politics that surround and limit us in our sense of self, our families, our communities, and our world. Drawn from three decades of research into the psychosocial dynamics of human behavior, her work integrates the the mental, emotional, and spiritual in a fragmented world. This presentation will focus on how we can create a partnership-based worldview and society. The socially-oriented workshop offers:
Come and find out how you can make a difference in creating a better world.
Riane Eisler is best known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade, hailed by anthropologist Ashley Montagu as "the most important book since Darwin's On the Origin of Species” and novelist Isabel Allende as "one of those magnificent books that can transform us." Her most recent book is the award-winning The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life, hailed by Dr. Christiane Northrup as "the right medicine for virtually everything that ails our society and planet," and Marianne Williamson as "the map to a world that works for all of us."
For information and registration call Esalen at 831-667-3005.
If you wish to be put on a the list for this workshop before the catalog comes out in April, you can download the reservation form from www.esalen.org and send it in with a deposit.
On-Line Education
Goddard College
An
Innovative Leader in Progressive Education
Offers a Master of Arts in
Education with a concentration in
Partnership Education
Educating for Caring, Peace and Social Justice
The M.A. concentration in
Partnership Education aims to help students develop a broad, critical
understanding of the complex issues involved in educating for social justice and
cultural transformation. Partnership Education is a deliberate, coherent
approach to cultivating the values of a partnership society in educational
practice. By extending your program for a semester, you can include teacher
licensure.
HALLMARKS OF A GODDARD EDUCATION ARE:
Individualized Study Plans: At Goddard, students are regarded as unique individuals. Students define their topic of inquiry and then, in close collaboration with a faculty advisor, self-design their own course of study. This personalized approach assures that the focus of a student’s academic work is on something that is deeply engaging and meaningful to their lives.
Low Residency Format: Goddard originated the intensive residency format designed for working adults. At the beginning of each semester students attend an 8-day residency on the Goddard campus in Plainfield, Vermont during which they create that semester’s study plan. They then return home to work independently on their plans while participating in a close mentoring relationship with a faculty advisor.
The Goddard Experience: Goddard’s learning model is unique and challenging. It is best suited for serious students who are internally motivated. Goddard is an intentionally small, personal and diverse learning community. Our graduate experience is collaborative, energizing and empowering. It creates an enduring impact while expanding minds, enlarging skills, inspiring transformative action and enriching lives. Given its caliber, and when compared to other colleges and universities, Goddard is remarkably affordable.
For more information, please
contact the Admissions Office at 800-906-8312 or
admissions@goddard.edu .
Or visit us on the web at
www.goddard.edu .
Goddard College is a pioneer in the field of emancipatory progressive education. Our aim is to encourage students to become creative, passionate, lifelong learners working and living with an earnest concern for others and the welfare of the Earth.
“Once we understand the cultural, social and political configurations of the partnership and domination models, we can more effectively develop the educational methods, materials and institutions that foster a less violent, more equitable, democratic, and sustainable future.”
Riane Eisler
from Tomorrow’s Children
In a
dramatic departure from her earlier bestselling works, renowned
social scientist and cultural historian Riane Eisler takes
self-help to a new level of meaning and effectiveness in her new
book The Power of Partnership. Along the way, she also
provides insightful, practical responses to the shock of the
recent terrorist attacks on the United States.
A rare combination of visionary scholar and practical activist, Eisler is known internationally for her work showing the difference between the partnership and dominator ways of life. In this easy to read, personal, and practical book, Eisler shows how step-by-step outward from the "self" we can shift from dominator to partnership ways to improve our lives, as well as those of others in the world around us.
The Power of Partnership shows what the recent terrorist attacks so tragically brought home to us: that we cannot "help the self" in any realistic and lasting way without becoming fully aware of and responsive to the down-to-earth practicalities of the seven key relationships in our lives. These seven relationships start with our relationship with ourselves, our intimate relations with loved ones, and our work and community relations. Then come our relations with our national community -and Eisler minces no words to get across the importance of the kind of political involvement that self-helpers have tended to shy away from. After that, come our relations with the international community, with nature, and finally - with an emphasis on "putting love into action" - our spiritual relations.
Starting with a turning point in her own life, and weaving in her personal experiences throughout the book, Eisler writes with passion grounded in three decades of research. The Power of Partnership gives us practical action steps needed for a better life and better world.
Which would you rather have? No one would choose the system of domination if they knew they had an alternative, but most of us haven't been given the lens to see the world that way - yet - and so we don't have the tools to break free of the dominator model and move more into partnership in all areas of our lives.
In The Power of Partnership, Eisler gives us - in simple, clear, non-academic language - the tools necessary to break free of the old dominator model and move into partnership. She guides us through every significant relationship in our lives, including our relationship with ourselves, our intimate relationships, our work and community relationships, our relationships with our national and international communities, and even our relations within nature and spirit.
The Power of Partnership is a new genre of self-help book that combines personal and social transformation. It is based on over three decades of research, and it shows that the self cannot be helped in isolation from the web of relationships around us - as the recent terrorist attacks so tragically show.
It
is, above all, a very practical book.
Advance Praise
"There is nothing more important taking place in our lives and in our world than the shift from relationships based on domination to ones founded on partnership. Riane Eisler's new book The Power of Partnership could not be more timely, nor more magnificent. In this wonderful and heartfelt book, Riane Eisler shows us just what is at stake, and gives us the tools to transform our lives and our culture to promote a more sustainable, just, and thriving way of life for all."
John
Robbins,
author of Diet for a New America
"In this brilliant book, Riane Eisler shows us how we can transform both ourselves and our world. It will teach, entertain, and enlighten your view of the extraordinary potential of humans and human society. Eisler is one of our world's wisest counselors, and most insightful visionaries."
Thom
Hartmann,
author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
"Stunning.
The Power of Partnership gives us the map to a world that
works for all of us."
Marianne
Williamson,
author of Healing the Soul of America
and A Woman's Worth
THE
POWER OF PARTNERSHIP:
Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life
By: Riane Eisler
Pub. Date: March 15, 2002
Hardcover, 6 x 9"
Pages: 308
ISBN: 1-57731-178-7
Published by
New World Library
Distributed by Publishers Group West
CPS is
pleased to feature our new video on
Partnership Education:
Tomorrow's Children:
Partnership
Education in Action
Now
Available, A New Video featuring Riane Eisler!
Do politically expedient proposals for more testing prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century? What is the role of schools in a time when the mass media are children's most frequent teachers? In Tomorrow's Children, based on her groundbreaking book of the same name, Riane Eisler offers a practical blueprint for transforming how we educate our children-and ourselves.
Through Partnership Education we can break the cycle of global violence that imperils the world. This new video will help us move toward a more equitable, sustainable and hopeful future. For everyone who cares about young people: from politicians and school officials to teachers, parents-and students themselves.
This richly illustrated video features an in-depth interview with Riane Eisler and includes partnership educator Sarah Pirtle and teachers and students from Nova High, a 30 year-old Seattle alternative public high school that has piloted partnership education.
Riane Eisler is an acclaimed author, educator, and lecturer. Her international bestseller, The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, was hailed by anthropologist Ashley Montagu as "the most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species" and by novelist Isabel Allende as "one of those magnificent key books that can transform us." Dr. Eisler is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (www.partnershipway.org), taught at UCLA and Immaculate Heart College, and keynotes conferences worldwide.
Length: 36 min.
approx. - includes a discussion study guide
Institutional
Order from
Media Education Foundation
Phone 1 (800) 897-0089
Fax (413) 586-8395
Preview and Study Guide Available On-line
Individual
Use: Contact
Center for Partnership Studies
Phone: 831-626-1004
Fax: 831-626-3734
"I hope the vision [Eisler] has put forward here can be realized. With her, I believe that human happiness, if not survival itself, depends on it."
Professor
Nel Noddings,
Stanford University
"...an important and powerful manifesto-a blueprint for how to take the first steps toward a saner and more humane educational system."
Michael
Lerner,
founder Tikkun magazine
" ...a clarion call for and guide to an historic transformation... that will inform and delight teachers, parents, and all those active in building a better life for 'Tomorrow's Children.'"
Professor
George Gerbner,
Temple University
"... a practical approach to creating schools that teach partnership, respect, and global understanding."
Tim
Seldin,
President, Montessori Foundation
"...filled with knowledge, experience and love."
Mary
Pipher,
author of Reviving Ophelia
"Eisler's plan to transform education is an education in itself...timely and needed for the whole-brain learning that each child deserves."
Raffi,
singer,
author of The Life of a Children's Troubadour
Partnership in Action
The Center for
Partnership Studies
P.O. Box 51936
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
USA
Phone 831-626-1004
Fax 831-626-3734
center@partnershipway.org