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Humanity Takes Flight: An Exploration Into The Contributions Of David Loye and an Introduction to this Issue of Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies
Get PDFThis article introduces Volume 9, issue 2 of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies and the issue’s theme of ‘moral sensitivity’ and its connection to the late evolutionary systems scientist and psychologist David Loye. The article will further highlight how Loye came to reconsider and reinterpret Darwin’s work on human evolution, and why this is expressly relevant to navigating the current challenging times we are living through. Additionally, this article will briefly describe the contents of this issue and highlight the diverse collection of contributing authors
Moral Sensitivity and Our Interconnection With One Another and Nature: A Conversation With Ervin Laszlo
Get PDFRiane Eisler, Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, interviews pioneering systems philosopher, scientist, and global activist Dr. Ervin Laszlo, about his work with the late evolutionary systems scientist David Loye on moral sensitivity, evolution, and the need to move from a linear to a whole-systems approach to meet our mounting global environmental, economic, social, and personal challenges
Remembering And Honouring David Loye
Get PDFThe following article is a personal tribute dedicated to evolutionary systems scientist, psychologist, and poet, David Loye. The article contains a collection of personal photographs of David Loye and partner, Riane Eisler alongside a poem written by Loye and the published obituary following his passing
Love Letters to Planet Earth: A Podcast and Practice for our Planetary Emotional Wellbeing
Get PDFIn partnership studies, the configuration of the partnership model supports relations of mutual respect, accountability, and benefit, as well as hierarchies of actualization in which power is employed to empower rather than to disempower others in all relations, from intimate to international. What is possible when this approach is used to address eco-anxiety and pre-traumatic stress related to climate change? This article describes a new podcast and practice designed to nurture partnership with other humans and nature.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Perpetuate Inequality: How Domination Systems Co-opt Even the Best of Intentions
Get PDFRiane Eisler frames the social realities of individuals through a domination-partnership continuum, and Johan Galtung studies peace through the development of systems of violence — direct, cultural, and structural — in perpetuation of domination. In this paper, I argue that a synthesis of both systems helps us understand inequality and racism in the United States. As such, I propose narrating U.S. history as a system of capital extraction and production, locating it within the domination/partnership continuum and enforced by systems of violence. Through this narration and location, I identify law as a tool that transforms imagined social constructions and converts them into social realities that support systems of domination. Specifically, I propose that given the U.S. history of domination, attempts to implement Equity, Diversity and Inclusion strategies result in racial capitalism and perpetuate domination systems. Therefore, the undertaking of equity and inclusion requires a multi-disciplinary approach to reset the legal system and enforcement of justice grounded in values of healing and care
Healthy Work Environments: An Interprofessional Partnership Model to Promote Positive Workplace Culture
Get PDFBackground: Healthy work environments (HWEs) are a primary focus of leaders in health care. Many nurse- specific HWE initiatives exist to improve workplace culture; however, workplace harm persists. An interprofessional partnership model is needed to sustain healthy workplace cultures to promote engagement among providers and employees, and safe, high-quality patient care.
Methods: The 5-Stage Process® is a method for teams to openly examine workplace behavior, co-creating their future using continuous quality improvement strategies of Team Building, Assessment, Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability. To ensure success, each stage should be completed with focused attention to the concrete strategies the team needs to take to sustain the healthy work environment.
Results: The entire 5-Stage Process® was used by interprofessional teams from the specialties of Perinatology and Radiology at major health care institutions in the Midwest and Perioperative in the Northeast United States. Each team implemented one-on-one conflict resolution techniques, and one team noted improvements in employee engagement scores from 60% to 86%, patient satisfaction from 74% to 85%, safety perception scores from 70% to 79%, and teamwork perception scores from 82% to 84%.
Conclusion: The interprofessional partnership 5-Stage Process® may be a successful method to continuously improve workplace cultures and ultimately improve patient safety and provider and staff satisfaction. Sustaining healthy work environments requires leaders’ constant focus and dedication to partnership techniques to ensure that new healthy behaviors persist
Community Partnerships: Training Case Managers Working with Individuals Experiencing Chronic Homelessness
Get PDFBackground: Homelessness is a chronic problem across the United States, with approximately 25% of homeless people located in California. In 2012, the United States Interagency Council to end Homelessness developed guidelines to implement Housing First initiatives and training for case managers. Launched in February 2017, Sacramento’s Flexible Supportive Rehousing Program, a permanent Housing First initiative, was adapted from Los Angeles County’s Housing for Health.
Methods: A comprehensive training academy for case managers working with individuals experiencing chronic homelessness was developed, implemented, and evaluated. Goals were to improve case managers’ ability to keep clients in housing, and to improve health outcomes as indicated by the Social Determinants of Health.
Results: Knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) objectives were provided for each training module. Case managers demonstrated knowledge and skills acquisition by presenting case studies following a provided rubric. Attitude changes were assessed using an adaptation of a validated tool. Evaluation of progress toward longer-term goals is ongoing
Artist's Statement: Don't Lose Our Youth
Get PDFArtist’s Statement for the cover art of IJPS Volume 9, issue 1: Don’t Lose Our Youth, 2022. Oil, rice, gesso, and aerosol on wood
From a Government-Based Partnership to a Civic-Governed Paradigm
Get PDFThis article reports a pioneering qualitative research study that illuminates the way a global philanthropic partnership enabled the Israeli government to launch a national program which later evolved into a non-governmental initiative. It examines the model of an urban and social rehabilitation program through the prism of its funding partnership, citizen participation practice, and collaboration with municipalities; it also illustrates the way this government-based model was transformed into a new program, detached from governmental ties and shifted to focus on communal and international people-to-people connections and collaborations. The article traces the programmatic transformation that unfolded over four decades
The Role of Public Art in Solar Commons Institution-Building: Community Voices from an Essential Partnership among Artists, Community Solar Researchers, and Activists
Get PDFIn this urgent decade when American democracy faces the challenge of decarbonizing the U.S. electric grid and assuring that the economic benefits of our energy transition are equitably shared, many solar energy researchers and activists are searching for new ways to partner with the civic sector. Instead of treating energy users as passive customers, experts understand the importance of engaging community as active decision-makers, beneficiaries, and communicators for a just energy transition. Distributed solar technology offers more democratic potential than small savings on individuals’ electric bills. Energy experts working on the Solar CommonsÔ community solar model at the University of Minnesota are piloting demonstration projects with community partners in Arizona and Minnesota. These solar commons aggregate savings through power purchase agreements that create 25-year peer-governed revenue streams to support mutual aid and reparative justice work in neighborhoods. This article describes a Solar Commons research project in Arizona, with a conversation among the public artists who partnered with the legal research team to co-create communication and peer governance tools that will allow DIY Solar Commons to iterate throughout the US as a new institution in our civic sector. Images of the Solar Commons public art demonstrate how the artists helped expand the vision of solar energy from the iconic individual solar panel to a technology embedded in community justice and in a complex human-more-than-human environment