Hi Everyone,

Conversation Leader John Harden teaches a seminar on Community Engagement and Social Justice at Siena College in Loudenville, New York.

He recently sent us this great picture with a note:

"I recently came across this picture from our Seminar on Community Engagement and Social Justice.
We continue to use The Real Wealth of Nations each year for our Seminar.
It is wonderful to share this important work with a group of dedicated young people as they dedicate a year to community engaged service as Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).
Yes, that old guy in the front is me!"

Thanks for sharing the picture, John - and for letting us know how you've embedded Caring Economy principles into your curriculum!

From all of us in the CELP community,
Sara

Join us for tea-online!

Caring Economy Conversation Leaders and graduates of the Cultural Transformation Master Course are welcome to attend a FREE online conversation Friday May 17, 2013 10am-11:30am PDT.
Click here for full flyer.

 Bring yourself, your favorite cup of tea or coffee for a rejuvenating conversation. 

Register: https://student.gototraining.com/r/6626022456569947904

This is your time to connect and enjoy free-flowing conversation with your Partnership and Caring Economy colleagues around the world. 

We are offering this special opportunity to reflect together on about how you are incorporating caring economy or partnership work into your life and your community-and to share ideas you may be brewing for collaboration with others. 

We have no program-initiated agenda. Bring your stories of action, inspiring experiences, useful resources, and simmering ideas that are lighting you up lately and we’ll see where the conversation leads us. 

Limited to 24 participants, first-come first-served.

Friday, May 17th

10:00 - 11:30 am PDT; 1:00 - 2:30 EDT

Facilitated by Ann Amberg with Sara Saltee.

We look forward to seeing you there!

www.caringeconomy.org    www.partnershipway.org

Barbara Litrell Conversation Leader profile update

Conversation Leader Barbara Litrell teaches Caring Economy Course in her community

Caring Economy Conversation Leader Barbara Litrell has created and is facilitating a 6-week class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Center at Yavapai Community College, in Sedona, Arizona. The curriculum is based on The Real Wealth of Nations by Riane Eisler and the Center for Partnership Studies Caring Economy Leadership Program. 

Barbara writes: "I have 10 adults in the class and we have had stimulating dialog. I have been using Caring Economy Leadership Program materials—handouts, small group work etc. This experience is helping me to learn the (Caring Economy) information much more thoroughly. We learn by teaching. "

The course convenes a conversation about ways to shift to an economic system that accomplishes what it’s supposed to do, provide for human welfare, human development, and a sustainable and healthy environment. Topics covered include:

• The Domination/Partnership Continuum 
• Making the Gender Connection 
• Making the Business Case for Caring 
• Changing How Economic Health is Measured 
• Changing Business and Social Policy 

Barbara will also be speaking about the principles of a Caring Economy to groups in May and October 2013.

Keep up the good work!!

Free Earth Day Streaming of Award-Winning Film Featuring Riane Eisler Begins Today!

Hi!  I am Joyce Johnson the co-producer of the award-winning film Mother: Caring for 7 Billion, featuring Riane Eisler.   We have some exciting news for Earth Day.   We are streaming Mother for free on the Mother website beginning today, April 19th to the end of May.  We wanted to give audiences around the world an opportunity to watch the new 2013 “Director’s Cut” Internet release, with never before seen footage.  As you may imagine, Mother is both a human rights and environmental film that uncovers the humanitarian, environmental and social costs that result from the domination of women, children and the environment and reveals how empowering women is the solution to many of these problems.   As Ellen V. Moore, on the board of directors of Amnesty International USA wrote "The many faces of population have not been responsibly and respectfully explored...until now. 'Mother:Caring for 7 Billion' is a film that elegantly, deftly, and respectfully shows how that happens.”

Human rights and environmental groups have been waiting for a comprehensive film like Mother that treats population in a balanced and thoughtful way.  Mother features many world-renowned experts including Aminata Toure from the UNFPA, Susan Davis from BRAC USA and Malcolm Potts from the Bixby School of Public Health.    Population was a major topic in the first Earth Day in 1970 and we hope that this Earth Day many people will take this opportunity to watch this important film for free at www.motherthefilm.com

We are asking groups can organize a lunch showing for Earth Day and/or if possible help us spread the word by mentioning the free streaming in newsletters and social media or even embedding the film on their websites during part or all of the Earth Day free streaming.   Here are links to Facebook and Twitter ( hashtag #motherthefilm ). 

This Earth Day, give just one hour of your life and see how one film can change the way you view your role in the world.  Please help us spread the word to your friends, family and colleagues about this unique opportunity to watch Mother for free!

California-based Conversation Leader Molly Freeman writes to share the following:

Two features in Sunday's NYTimes illustrate the timeliness of CEC priorities: 

I- This article describes the recent interest and research of capitalism and capitalists, all useful background on institutional and political forces driving the connections the CEC makes between the dynamics of partnership and domination 

II-  Lean In, Dad:  How Shared Diaper Duty Could Stimulate the Economy  (What really caught my eye was the insert.... This is the first time I have seen "monetizing the skills of female workers" in the mainstream press) 

Deep thoughts this week:
1. The United States is not monetizing the skills of female workers.
2. Progressive solutions seem like the answer.
3. But they’re not.
4. Welcome to the Daddy Diaper Duty economy.
Yours,
Molly

Thanks for sharing Molly!

North Carolina Conversation Leaders Modelling Local Action

Hi Everyone!

I'm so happy to share with you about an upcoming Conference that three of our conversation leaders are pulling together in North Carolina next month.

Kathy Spaar and Rai d'Honore, with Colleen Flanagan are putting on a "day of dialog" called Re-thinking America:  Women crossing party lines to heal the nation on May 11th.

They write:  "On May 11, 2013, we will host a day of dialogue that will focus specifically on new ways of looking at our economy, human ecology and the environment. Selected presentations in the morning will lead to in-depth conversations after lunch, where participants may select their area of interest to explore possibilities leading to effective action."

Isn't that a wonderful model of how, working together, we can take Caring Economy Conversations to the next level?

Many of you will also be interested to learn about Artemis House, the venue where the conference will occur, and the Laconneau tradition it is part of.   Here's what Kathy and Rai share about the venue:  "Artemis House has as its inspiration the society of medieval Occitania. At its foundation lay the concept of paratge. This was a code of ethics encompassing a variety of moral virtues including justice, wisdom, generosity, sincerity, compassion, tolerance, honor and having right thought and action and balance within oneself and the world. Artemis House seeks to apply those virtues of paratge into our present-day society and, as such, is a center for spiritual formation and personal empowerment.  We believe that it is through the transformational process of achieving the correct balance of spirit, mind and body that we are led to the application of right thought and right action in our own lives, and by so doing, we bring about real positive change in the people and world around us."

If you are in the vicinity of North Carolina, please be in touch with Kathy or Rai to find out more about this exciting day of dialog and local action planning!

We all look forward to hearing all that emerges from this event!

Be well everyone,
Sara