The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World (A Practical Companion for "the Chalice and the Blade") [Paperback]

Riane Eisler (Author), David Loye (Author), David Loye ye (Author)

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Publication Date: December 23, 1990

Exploring the ideas and information in The Chalice and The Blade, this guide stimulates reflection and discussion and offers exercises for imagining and experiencing new ways of thinking and feeling. Illustrated.

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Exploring the ideas and information in The Chalice and the Blade, Eisler here teams up with another award-winning writer to apply her book's teachings in a guide to more satisfying, more meaningful options for ourselves and our planet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harper San Francisco; First Edition first Printing edition (December 23, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062502905
• ISBN-13: 978-0062502902
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,461,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Riane Eisler is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade, now in 25 foreign editions, as well as Sacred Pleasure, The Power of Partnership, and Tomorrow's Children. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations -- hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking" and by Gloria Steinem as "revolutionary" - proposes a new approach to economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and for our natural environment.

She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies and keynotes conferences worldwide, with venues including invitations by Rita Suessmuth, President of the German Parliament, and by Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic.

Dr. Eisler is a leader for peace, environmental sustainability, economic equity, and human rights - pioneering the extension of human rights protection to "women's rights" and "children's rights." With Nobel Peace laureate Betty Williams, she co-founded the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), www.saiv.net. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies, www.partnershipway.org,, has received many honors, including honorary Ph.D. degrees, the Alice Paul ERA Education Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, and is in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King.

She can be contacted at [e-mail].
Her websites are http://www.partnershipway.org and http://www.rianeeisler.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Breaking down the Hierarchy, March 10, 2001

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This review is from: The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning (Paperback)

If Riane Eisler's CHALICE AND THE BLADE (C&B) excited you (or if you're dying to read it), and you'd like to share it with others, this book is for you. Begin to break down the dominator paradigm by sitting in a circle with a bunch of friends or fellow travellers and working the exercises in this book.

THE PARTNERSHIP WAY provides nine "lessons" which guide a group through C&B. This path is structured so that the group follows it together, without relying on the "authority" of a "leader." The experience of covering this material in a "partnership way" is what they didn't teach you in school. Learning to work together without ranking ourselves is a skill that we lost thousands of years ago. This book presents an opportunity for those who would like to reclaim that skill.