The Power of Partnership
What if there is a way to transform society and create a world that values caring, nature, and shared prosperity? The POP podcast brings you the voices of people who are doing just that - people who are applying the Partnership ethos, the ground-breaking alternative to Domination Systems that are the root of our most pressing challenges. The Partnership movement was pioneered by Riane Eisler, internationally acclaimed author of The Chalice and the Blade, Nurturing Our Humanity, Sacred Pleasures, Tomorrow's Children, The Real Wealth of Nations and many more! Each episode includes information about essential tools from the Center for Partnership Systems, and beyond, to move away from the domination paradigm and create a Partnership world!
The Power of Partnership
The Creativity of Building a Partnership World with Alfonso Montuori
From climate anxiety to deep social divides, the future can feel daunting—but it doesn’t have to. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, creativity scholar Alfonso Montuori shares how partnership thinking can replace fear with possibility and guide us toward collaborative, life-centered solutions. As founder of the Center for Creative Futures, he explains how shifting our visions from dystopian to hopeful can inspire agency, innovation, and systemic change.
Alfonso reflects on decades of work exploring creativity, diversity, and complexity—highlighting the need for everyday relational creativity, the undervaluing of women’s creative contributions, and the lessons partnership offers across fields from education to jazz. His message: envisioning and co-creating a better future is both possible and already underway.
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California Institute of Integral Studies (https://www.ciis.edu/)
Kitty Margolis (http://www.kittymargolis.com/index.php)
Creativity, Society, and Gender: Contextualizing and Redefining Creativity by Riane Eisler, Alfonso Montuori, and Gabrielle Donnelly (https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/article/view/130/124)
From Power to Partnership: Creating the Future of Love, Work, and Community, Alfonso Montuori and Isabella Conti (https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/17/)
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/)
The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-power-of-partnership/)
Center for Partnership Systems (https://centerforpartnership.org/)
Center for Partnership "Join Us" email link
Resilience, Rising Appalachia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8