Lately I had the nice excellent fortune to interview my long-time pal and colleague Dr. Riane Eisler. We lined quite a lot of subjects in regards to the continual of partnership each in our non-public {and professional} lives and the paintings that her Middle for Partnership Programs has been doing over time. 

These days I wish to inform you in regards to the new Energy of Partnership (POP) podcast sequence that simply introduced on June 27, 2023 the place Dr. Eisler described her partnership-domination scale and 4 cornerstones to grow to be how we bring to mind our previous, provide, and the chances for our long term.

The POP Podcast highlights techniques individuals are serving to construct an international that values worrying, nature, and shared prosperity by way of making use of the Partnership ethos, Dr. Riane Eisler’s ground-breaking choice to the Domination Programs which might be on the root of our  maximum urgent demanding situations. 

My colleagues Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly-Hunt will probably be featured at the podcast on July 11, 2023 sharing their paintings on “Protected Conversations: From Warfare to  Connection.” I’m scheduled to be at the podcast on August 8, 2023. My matter is “Therapeutic Males and Leaving At the back of Male Violence.”

The Middle for Partnership Programs used to be began in 1987 by way of Riane Eisler and David Loye as a reaction to her groundbreaking ebook, The Chalice and the Blade, which had simply been printed. In The Chalice and the Blade, Dr. Eisler describes her analysis of re-examining human historical past from a gender-holistic point of view and the Cultural Transformation principle she advanced this is in line with her findings. 

Within the Chalice, Dr. Eisler writes that this principle proposes that underlying the nice variety of human tradition are two fundamental fashions of society.

“The primary, which I name the dominator mannequin, is what’s popularly termed both patriarchy or matriarchy–the rating of 1 part of humanity over the opposite. The second one, through which social members of the family are essentially in line with the main of linking slightly than rating, would possibly easiest be described because the partnership mannequin. On this model-beginning with probably the most basic distinction in our species, between female and male–variety isn’t equated with both inferiority or superiority.” 

The venture of the Middle is to catalyze motion in opposition to Partnership in all facets of our lives and in any respect ranges of society thru analysis, schooling, grassroots empowerment, coverage projects, and assets. 

I met Riane in a while after the newsletter of The Chalice & the Blade in 1987. My first ebook, Within Out: Changing into My Personal Guy, used to be printed in 1983 and we met in San Francisco to discuss her paintings and mine. At a time when many ladies, together with quite a few feminist students, had been viewing males and patriarchy as the reason for our issues, Riane’s scholarship and revel in introduced a miles other narrative; person who known the significance of guys’s and girls’s problems as being core facets of the partnership-domination dynamic. 

Riane’s assist of guys used to be brave and transformative. Her phrases, which I nonetheless quote steadily, are much more necessary now:

“For millennia males have fought wars and the Blade has been a male image. However this doesn’t imply males are inevitably violent and warlike…The underlying drawback isn’t males as a intercourse. The foundation of the issue lies in a social gadget through which the ability of the Blade is idealized–through which each women and men are taught to equate true masculinity with violence and dominance and to peer males who don’t comply with this very best as ‘too cushy’ or ‘effeminate.’” (Chalice and the Blade, p. xviii.)

Riane has persevered to make bigger and refine those fundamental tenets thru her next analysis and writing culminating together with her ebook with Douglas P. Fry, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Form Our Brains, Lives, and Long run. I’ve additionally deepened those concepts thru my very own analysis and 16 books since Within Out, culminating with my most up-to-date ebook to be launched later this 12 months, Lengthy Reside Males! The Moonshot Venture to Heal Males, Shut the Lifespan Hole, and Be offering Hope to Humanity.

No person will have to remind us that we live in difficult instances. In Nurturing Our Humanity, Riane and Douglas describe humanities dream for a greater international and the realities we face nowadays:

“For millennia, people have imagined a relaxed and simply international. Once in a while we best imagined this international in an afterlife. However during the last centuries, many people have imagined it proper right here on Earth. Now not a utopia, now not a great international. However an international the place peace is extra than simply an period between wars, the place dire poverty, brutal oppression, insensitivity, cruelty, and melancholy are now not ‘simply the way in which issues are.’

“Now there’s a new urgency to our want for a extra human international. On a daily basis we’re bombarded by way of information of barbaric human rights abuses, terrorist assaults, proliferation of nuclear guns, and a float again to strongman rule. The destruction of our herbal setting continues at an accelerating tempo, endangering our international life-support programs. New applied sciences, from synthetic intelligence to organic engineering, may have catastrophic effects if guided by way of cultural values of greed, megalomania, and put out of your mind for human rights.”

Those is also the truest phrases I’ve ever spoken. “Riane Eisler’s items to the arena are wanted now greater than ever.”

You’ll be able to pay attention to POP podcast episodes anyplace you get your podcasts, or to peer a complete library of episodes and hyperlinks, pass to the Middle for Partnership Programs at https://centerforpartnership.org/the-power-of-partnership-podcast/. 

To be told in regards to the POP podcasts and audio system pass to Middle for Partnership Gadget at https://centerforpartnership.org/the-power-of-partnership-podcast/. 

Talk over with the Middle for Partnership Programs at https://centerforpartnership.org/.

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