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That question has driven the work of this week’s podcast guest, futurist and feminist thought leader, Riane Eisler.

Escaping the holocaust as a child, then growing up in the slums of Havana, Riane has spent her entire life trying to move us beyond the pain we humans perpetrate against each other. In what she speaks about as a “thunderbolt” moment, Riane realized that the root of that pain lies in a mindset that is stuck in a mode of domination vs. partnership.

In this week’s episode of the Creating the Future podcast, Riane shows us what it can look like to shift from systems rooted in domination, to systems rooted in partnership.

The more we listen to Riane, the more we see how those systems show up in all aspects of our culture, from how we think about family dynamics to how we look at gender, race, and the economic power dynamics of haves vs. have nots. From there, we also begin to question whether our approaches to social justice may also be tied up in a domination paradigm.

What, then, does it take to move from a mindset of domination - where we hold power over others - to a mindset of partnership? That is what Riane helps us to see in this week’s episode.

The author of books like The Chalice and the Blade, and The Real Wealth of Nations, Riane is an icon in the work of social justice.

This is an episode you will not want to miss.

You can listen to the podcast at this link or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen here…