Riane Eisler - The Power of Partnership: The Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life

PRAISE FOR THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP

So comprehensive and groundbreaking that it will probably prove to be one of the most important books of this century. If you want to improve your life and your world, read this book!

This extraordinary book is a lifes work in itself, and a gift to anyone exploring how we can do our lives better, do our relationships better, do our work experience better, do our schools better, do our world better.

In The Power of Partnership, Riane Eisler offers all of us a way to transform our business, our community, and ourselves. It is must reading for any business owner who is looking for more meaning than the bottom line.

Nothing can vanquish anxiety like clarity, which is what Riane Eisler delivers abundantly. Read this book and youll come away with a new understanding of how the world works (and why it so often works atrociously). Even more important, youll feel better about it because youll feel less helpless about it. And in a world that seems to be going mad we can all use some of that!

All those who value relationships and those who dont will do well to read this book and help reduce anger and violence.

A step-by-step approach to personal development. Eisler is a brilliant role model as a global citizen and one of the preeminent minds of our time.

If the Osama bin Ladens of this world were required to read this book and absorb its message, the human race would surge onto the fast track toward love and creativity.

Brings compassion, intelligence, and practical advice to the essential work of personal and social transformation. This book will be a treasured resource for helping us move forward in the twenty-first century.

If our planet is to survive, it will need the kind of wisdom that shines through this book. Riane Eisler is one of the most creative and visionary thinkers of our time.

More relevant than ever in a post-September 11, 2001 world, The Power of Partnership details the steps to build sound and lasting relationships with the self, the intimate partner, the world, and life itself. It is essential reading for every person searching for ways to improve our lives and our world.

In a stroke, Riane Eislers simple, powerful message makes all other self-help books irrelevant. How can we live fuller, richer and more loving lives without also making it possible for others to do the same? By replacing individuals within our world, she demands that we work on healing the world and healing ourselves a model that can create the ripples from which tidal waves are made.

Here is a book for the turning of the times, for what is offered here are the essential ways to make the world work. The wise and prescient Riane Eisler guides us through the paths of partnership that lie beyond the wasteland of dominator psychology. This is a radical work of social evolution that should be taken very seriously. It is a gift to the present historical moment and an enterprise of enormous importance.

The Power of Partnership provides a superb framework for this new age and innumerable answers to achieving it. Its eight chapters could be the headings of the Wisdom Age for humanity on this miraculous, magic, and precious Planet Earth.

How wonderful to encounter in one book not only an incisive and clear understanding of what causes so much suffering in the modern world, but a compelling vision of how both personally and as a society we can change. Riane Eisler gives us a wise and very practical recipe for hope.

Those of us who believe that peace begins, and can only be lastingly and reliably achieved, with peace in our hearts, know that this depends crucially on our relationships: to ourselves, to our family, community, nation, the community of all nations, and to nature. Riane Eisler offers the essential guidelines for creating and sustaining relationships that can give us and hence the world the peace we so desperately need.

With insight, passion, and persuasion, Riane Eisler reveals the many disturbing faces of todays dominator society. Happily, she also shows how each of us can help evoke a future that matures beyond force and fear. A must read for anyone interested in a better world for all.

From intimacy, to politics, to service, to sustainability... this remarkable book touches every critical node of vital partnership.... Exercises, action check-lists, and a rich bibliography complement the work at every stage. The Power of Partnership offers a compelling argument for the reality of conscious evolution.

The Power of Partnership is an extraordinary, thoughtful, and timely book. Riane Eisler speaks with wisdom and compassion about the central concerns of today, including war and terrorism, education, and child-rearing. Anyone who is concerned about the state of the world, as well as the state of ones own home and family, should read this book.

The Power of Partnership is an exceptional resource guide for personal and social transformation. It offers practical tools for creating a global community and a path for collaboration in all aspects of our lives.

Riane Eisler is one of the innovative thinkers of our time and the wisest woman I know. Here is her clear-minded, warm-hearted, practical guide through the daunting challenges of todays world. The Power of Partnership will help you make your own wise choices about how to act with empathy and caring whether the issue is global economics, the environment, terrorism, or your own most intimate relationships.

Now more than ever, we must switch from a dominator model to a partnership model if we are to survive. With her customary wisdom, clarity, and compassion, Riane shows us the way.