Riane Eisler started her teaching career in the 1970s, when she introduced the first courses at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on the social and legal status of women, followed by the social and legal status of children, drawing largely from her legal experience. In the 1980s, she began applying her cross-cultural research to education, culminating in her book Tomorrow’s Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century, which inspired courses in schools (including Montessori) and universities (including the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the California Institute for Integral Studies, the Swiss Academy of Social Science, Goddard College, and California State University, Monterey Bay).
In 2021, Meridian University launched a concentration for Partnership Practitioners offering PhD and Master’s degrees in this concentration and offered an online course for both graduate students and the public at large based on Eisler’s work.
Reimagining Power and Revaluing Care: Actualizing the Potentials of Partnership Systems
Meridian University PhDs and Master’s Degrees for Partnership Practitioners
Eisler is co-leading the new Partnership Systems Concentration at Meridian University, with Aftab Omer, sociologist, psychologist, futurist, and the president of the university, and Melissa Schwartz, Chief Academic Officer at…
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: a Public Town Hall with Riane Eisler
Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Shifting to Partnership in Education and Society
Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Responding to COVID-19
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many schools are closing for weeks or longer and we know that students, parents and communities are in need of informed and inspiring support….
Safe Conversations in Action
Safe Conversations: Shifting from Domination to Partnership in Relationship
Webinar: Partnership Negotiation CPS 2018 Global Community Gathering
How are you putting Partnership principles into action? Leaders are working together around the world to advance the Partnership and Caring Economy movements. The Center for Partnership Studies honors our program graduates…
Webinar: Power With and Power Through – How Women Are Leading Differently
On October 3rd, 2018 the webinar “Power With and Power Through: How Women Are Leading Differently for a Just and Caring World” with Jamia Wilson, Carla Goldstein and Riane Eisler…
Webinar: Behind Our Gender Masks with Riane Eisler
CPS’ September 20, 2018 webinar, Behind Our Gender Masks: Empowering Young Women and Men to Express their Full Humanity, proved to be a powerful and engaging conversation. This in-depth dialog…
Webinar: Questions You Asked on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith
The response to our May 22, 2018 webinar “Uncovering the Roots of Violence: New Perspectives on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith,” was overwhelming. Participants from all over the world…
Webinar: Uncovering the Roots of Violence: New Perspectives on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith
In this moment of #MeToo, #EnoughisEnough, and #BlackLivesMatter, our essential task is to uncover the roots of violence including its roots in our religious traditions and faith communities. The extraordinary…
Webinar: Raising Caring Men: How Can #MeToo Bring a Revolution in Masculinities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHeY_WpSRM The #MeToo movement has been an opportunity for profound awakening for some, and for increased visibility of a pervasive reality for others, but where do we go from here?…
She has been on dozens of PhD dissertation committees for candidates using her work. She has advised students and faculty worldwide on partnership education, keynoted educationally-focused conferences, spoken in classrooms, granted interviews to students from high school to graduate school, worked with faculty to develop partnership curricula, collaborated with the Montessori Foundation to develop their Partnership Education conferences and their teacher training, worked with university, high school, and grammar school teachers on their books, including Partnership Education in Action, collaborated with faculty at the University of Udine in Italy to found their Partnership Studies Group, co-authored Educating for a Culture of Peace, contributed chapters to numerous educational publications, and taught online courses on cultural transformation, caring economics, and other topics drawing from her work.
Why do I teach?
Teaching is legacy work – both the legacy of my contributions and the legacy we all leave for future generations. It’s been great to teach on a whole variety of levels – from PhD review committees, college and high school classes, and webinars for professionals to community courses and programs for people seeking tools for personal and social transformation. I learn so much every time I teach! The feedback from students reaffirms my determination to inspire others to advance movement to a more peaceful and caring Partnership world.