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Othering and Belonging Institute
WE ALL BELONG IN THE CIRCLE OF HUMAN CONCERN. Othering is the problem of our time. Belonging is the solution.
The Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley advances groundbreaking approaches to transforming structural marginalization and inequality. We are scholars, organizers, communicators, researchers, artists, and policymakers committed to building a world where all people belong.
Promoting “a transition from a world of domination and extraction to a world of regeneration, resilience, and interdependence…grounded in four elements…: leading with audacious vision and bold purpose; deeply embodying the values at the heart of the vision; building radical and deep community around the vision; and using all of that…to strategically navigate toward the future…. cultivating a practice of taking care of each other…. How can we develop the collective strength and insight needed to transform a culture and an economy built on racism and domination?… How can we cultivate our readiness to engage…. A movement that can transform the world and each one of us in it…. Who do we need to be to make that change?… We, individually and collectively, would need to be different as people…. Changing ourselves individually and collectively will change the world…. Collective transformative practice as the intentional and continuously repeated action undertaken as a group to cultivate new ways of being and thinking in that group and beyond it…. Encourages people in a group to discover and unleash their core strengths.”
Center for Partnership Studies
The mission of the Center for Partnership Systems is to catalyze movement towards partnership systems on all levels of society through research, education, grassroots empowerment, and policy initiatives. CPS’s programs focus on promoting human rights and nonviolence, gender and racial equity, child development, and new metrics that demonstrate the financial contribution of the work of care. We draw from the latest social and biological science including neuroscience, connecting the dots between the personal and political to address root causes rather than merely symptoms of dysfunction and injustice. The Center for Partnership Studies was founded in 1987 in response to the demand of readers of Riane Eisler's The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future…” See Courses.