Episode Notes
Today I’m honored to be interviewing a very special Daughter of Change, Dr. Riane Eisler.
Riane’s decades-long career as a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney has produced a body of research and work that has transformed the lives of people worldwide.
Riane is the president of the Center for Partnership Systems, dedicated to research and education, -Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies – an online peer-reviewed journal at the University of Minnesota that was inspired by her work – keynotes conferences nationally and internationally – has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Department of State, and Congressional briefings. She has spoken at corporations and universities worldwide on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work.
She is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. Her book on economics, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics; her book on nursing, Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships, co-authored with Teddie Potter, and her Equal Rights Handbook, on the proposed ERA, as well as her award-winning Tomorrow’s Children, Sacred Pleasure, and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life (statistically documenting the key role of women’s status in a nation’s quality of life), all drawing from Riane’s interdisciplinary research. Her most recent work, co-authored with anthropologist Douglas Fry is NurturingOur Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
She is the only woman among 20 major thinkers in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist – And 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.
So, put on your contemplation cap and hunker down for this thought-provoking conversation with one of the world’s top systems scientists – you’ll be glad you did!
Links to Check Out:
- Riane’s Website
- Riane’s Books
- Rian’s Twitter Account – @RianeEisler
- Riane’s LinkedIn
- Center for Partnership Systems Website
- Center for Partnership Systems Facebook Page
- Center for Partnership Systems on Twitter – @CenterforPship
- Center for Partnership Systems LinkedIn
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Daughters of Change Podcast Producer: Sarah Stacey
