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From climate anxiety to deep social divides, the future can feel daunting—but it doesn’t have to. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, creativity scholar Alfonso Montuori shares how partnership thinking can replace fear with possibility and guide us toward collaborative, life-centered solutions. As founder of the Center for Creative Futures, he explains how shifting our visions from dystopian to hopeful can inspire agency, innovation, and systemic change.
Alfonso reflects on decades of work exploring creativity, diversity, and complexity—highlighting the need for everyday relational creativity, the undervaluing of women’s creative contributions, and the lessons partnership offers across fields from education to jazz. His message: envisioning and co-creating a better future is both possible and already underway.
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California Institute of Integral Studies (https://www.ciis.edu/)
Kitty Margolis (http://www.kittymargolis.com/index.php)
Creativity, Society, and Gender: Contextualizing and Redefining Creativity by Riane Eisler, Alfonso Montuori, and Gabrielle Donnelly (https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/article/view/130/124)
From Power to Partnership: Creating the Future of Love, Work, and Community, Alfonso Montuori and Isabella Conti (https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/17/)
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/)
The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-power-of-partnership/)
Center for Partnership Systems (https://centerforpartnership.org/)
Center for Partnership "Join Us" email link
Resilience, Rising Appalachia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8
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By Cherri Jacobs Pruitt with Riane EislerFrom climate anxiety to deep social divides, the future can feel daunting—but it doesn’t have to. In this episode of The Power of Partnership Podcast, creativity scholar Alfonso Montuori shares how partnership thinking can replace fear with possibility and guide us toward collaborative, life-centered solutions. As founder of the Center for Creative Futures, he explains how shifting our visions from dystopian to hopeful can inspire agency, innovation, and systemic change.
Alfonso reflects on decades of work exploring creativity, diversity, and complexity—highlighting the need for everyday relational creativity, the undervaluing of women’s creative contributions, and the lessons partnership offers across fields from education to jazz. His message: envisioning and co-creating a better future is both possible and already underway.
SHOWNOTES:
SUPPORT THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP PODCAST (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2207697/support)
Prefer to watch? You can also view all episodes of The Power of Partnership Podcast on the Center for Partnership Systems YouTube channel
California Institute of Integral Studies (https://www.ciis.edu/)
Kitty Margolis (http://www.kittymargolis.com/index.php)
Creativity, Society, and Gender: Contextualizing and Redefining Creativity by Riane Eisler, Alfonso Montuori, and Gabrielle Donnelly (https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/article/view/130/124)
From Power to Partnership: Creating the Future of Love, Work, and Community, Alfonso Montuori and Isabella Conti (https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/17/)
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/)
The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that will Change Your Life, Riane Eisler (https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-power-of-partnership/)
Center for Partnership Systems (https://centerforpartnership.org/)
Center for Partnership "Join Us" email link
Resilience, Rising Appalachia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8
Support the show