Center for Partnership Studies Information

The Center for Partnership Systems (CPS) is dedicated to building economic and social systems that support both human beings and the planet through its research, education, and resources. The Partnerism Movement is a CPS initiative to accelerate the shift from Domination to Partnership Systems based on an economic model that values caring, equity, shared prosperity, and nature. Riane Eisler, founder and president of CPS, has been the most iconic pioneer in the field of gender equity for the past six decades. She continues to build on her best-selling book, The Chalice and the Blade (now in its 56th printing in 25 languages) that re-examines thirty thousand years of human culture. Eisler showed that for millennia human societies were structured as “Partnership Systems” where our capacity to give, nurture, and sustain life was celebrated as divine; women and men shared power; and a spirit of mutual care and responsibility prevailed. This ancient social configuration, which existed before domination prevailed, helps us understand that we don’t have to accept conquest, violence, and abuse as “human nature.” Eisler’s work reveals four essential and interconnected cornerstones needed to move away from the inherited legacy of domination and toward the Partnership Systems required for humans to thrive on a healthy planet: - Family and Childhood Relations - Gender Relations - Economic Relations - Narratives and Language Riane is not only a renowned author but a Holocaust survivor, legal scholar, economist, futurist, social scientist and global thought leader. Her culminating work is featured in her latest book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shapes Our Lives, Brains and Future."(Oxford University Press, 2019).