Changing Our Story, Changing Our Lives
Riane Eisler’s Cultural Transformation Course
This self-paced online course introduces a narrative about human history, human nature, and human possibilities that guides us in building a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.
“Riane Eisler’s work provides a sense of liberation and hope.
It has given me a new perspective on why there is so much unnecessary pain in our society—and how awareness about the Dominator/Partnership paradigm can create change towards a more caring, sustainable world.”
— Cherri Pruitt, maternal & child health consultant
About Your Teacher
Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide.
She is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 27 foreign editions and 57 U.S. printings. Her book on economics, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, was hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking” and by Jane Goodall as “a call to action.”
Dr. Eisler pioneered the expansion of human rights theory and action to include the majority of humanity: women and children. Her research provides a new perspective on our past, present, and possibilities for the future, including a new social and political agenda for building a more humane and environmentally sustainable world.
She is the only woman among 20 major thinkers including Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist. She has received many honors, including honorary PhDs, the Nuclear Age Peace Leadership Award, the Feminist Pioneer award, and inclusion in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of twenty leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.
In this exciting self-paced online course, she guides us in a transformational exploration of how the new social categories of Domination and Partnership Systems — first introduced in her best-seller The Chalice and The Blade — empower us to co-create a better future for ourselves, our children, and generations to come.
This Course Includes:
4 Video lectures by Riane Eisler
4 Video Transcripts
5 Interactive Digital Workbooks
References and Resource Guides
Content Overview
Module 1: Where We Are
Does it have to be this way? Are violence, cruelty, and domination just 'human nature'? Or are there alternatives - and if so, what are they?
Module 2: How We Got Here
What is the historical evidence that humans are capable of living in peace and honoring life?
Module 3: Human Possibilities & Human Nature
Are primate brains wired for empathy or cruelty? How do cultural patterns of Domination or Partnership shape our brains and our behavior?
Module 4: Moving Forward
What are the key leverage points for creating the urgently needed cultural shift toward Partnership Systems?
Module 5: Accelerating the Shift
What actions will you take as a leader in the Partnership Movement?
Welcome to the global Partnership movement!
Whether you are new to Riane Eisler’s work or have studied it for years, this course will
deepen your understanding of Domination and Partnership Systems
prepare you to advocate for Partnership policies
show you how to apply Partnership values and practices in your own family, workplace, and community.
We are living in times of great change and great challenge. Yet, across the world, people like you are rising to the call of creating a better world — a world built on peace, equality, and caring for one another and for our planet. In this course you will gain a fresh understanding of the part you play in weaving a new human story and your essential role in the global Partnerism Movement.
The Domination System and the Partnership System are integrative categories that empower us with a new way of thinking and give names to things that many of us have felt to be true: that there is a better way of living and that this Partnership way is deeply rooted in societies that flourished in our prehistoric past.
This course goes beyond a new story that shows the interconnections between dynamics we’ve been taught to see as separate. It will help you discover how YOU can accelerate the shift from Domination to Partnership Systems.
