Online Partnership Leadership
Classes, Master's, & Ph.D. Offered at CIIS

Build a career and earn a graduate degree in Partnership, or simply take a class, studying with Riane Eisler and Masters and Ph.D. students from around the globe!

No matter where you live, you can now enroll in the online graduate program in Partnership Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Courses start with an intensive with Dr. Eisler and Dr. Susan Carter at the beautiful Pacifica resort on the California coast in January 2010.

This is an innovative program for those who are serious about making a difference in their lives, their organizations, and the world. Students work in a community of likeminded individuals, build a curriculum around their calling and passion, and develop skills to make their visions realities. Students also can earn credit while interning with the Center for Partnership Studies or other change-making nonprofit organizations. Imagine a career in Partnership! Join us!

CIIS is in its second year of building a network of professionals with practical tools and
organizational connections to spread Partnership through action around the globe!

Student Comments:

"The Partnership concentration is proving to be the most worthwhile and transformative
educational opportunity I've encountered. It presents practical, accessible and holistic solutions to the most urgent challenges and myriad problems we face on a personal, interpersonal,national and global scale. I am excited to continue growing with this material and using it throughout my life - enabling me to be an even more effective leader and the best social change agent I can be."
Elisa Audo
Director of Prevention, Community Violence Solutions, Doctoral Student, CIIS

"As an activist and community leader, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to study such
powerful, transformational theories as addressed in this class. Studying directly with Riane Eisler is an incredible honor and a profound experience. This class is a must for anyone with a penchant for leadership, politics and change."
Heidi L. Sieck
City and County of San Francisco, Disaster Response Program Chair, Brava! Theater for Women in Arts, Co-Chair San Francisco Women's Policy Summit, MA Student, CIIS

"I am very, very thankful for having taken this course. Riane and Susan, you
both have been such role models…so genuine and authentic. I have watched in
awe your compassionate, understanding, and articulate responses.”
Jim Martin

Northwest Territories of Canada, Executive Director of the Tlicho
Community Services Agency (a public/tribal agency), Doctoral Student, CIIS

For more information, please contact Martha Brumbaugh at CIIS
mbrumbaugh@ciis.edu 415-575-6173 or Susan Carter susangailcarter@yahoo.com. To
register for the MA program or for one of the courses, please contact Allyson Werner
at awerner@ciis.edu or call 415.575.6155.

                                   NEW CPS WORKSHOP

              Become a Real Wealth Community Presenter

The first Real Wealth Community Presenters training was launched by the Center for Partnership Studies in Seattle, Washington on November 6-8, and was a rousing success! This is a free training for volunteers who want to create the "mind shift" urgently needed at this critical time. Drawing from The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, it is modeled on Al Gore's Climate Change Project, with each presenter committing to making 10 presentations over a year using the power point and manual developed by Alene Moris, nationally recognized trainer and consultant, and Cheryn Weiser and Sara Saltee from Strategic Learning Resources. It will be offered again next year. If you are interested, please apply. This is a chance to make a difference -- and engage others to do the same! Space is limited to the first 100 applicants accepted. For more information and to access the application, please click here:

More Workshops

An immersive workshop for active and emerging women leaders Designing Women’s Leadership: Partnership-based Innovation. A wonderful experience with a first class coach and life design expert!

MorePartnership Classes

New courses on partnership systems and relations are springing up.  This year, Professor Mary Kirk of Metropolitan State University in Minnesota began teaching

Partnership Perspectives on Leadership. For information, Email:  mary.kirk@metrostate.edu