Authors:Emily Abberton Pages: 1 - 1 Abstract: This 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. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5127 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Riane Eisler Pages: 2 - 2 Abstract: This article introduces the two major themes of this issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies: moral sensitivity and transformation, and honoring the late evolutionary systems scientist David Loye. The article shows how these two themes are integrally interconnected. Loye introduced the term “moral sensitivity” as well as the distinction between “partnership moral sensitivity” and “dominator moral insensitivity” or “moralism,” showing how the latter has been used to push us back to “strong-man” rule, violence, and injustice. He was the first to reclaim what he called “Darwin’s lost theory” based on Charles Darwin’s long-ignored writings about human evolution, including what Darwin called “the moral sense.” Quoting from some of Loye’s more than 30 published books as well as a sampling of articles, the article highlights his gift of bringing to life the people and times he wrote about, including the men and women he called “the great scientific explorers of the better world.” Colorful examples from his many writings illustrate how Loye advanced the study of human evolution through his offerings on moral sensitivity, clarifying much that is otherwise obscured, and showing his enormous contributions to a better understanding of our past, present, and the possibilities for our future. The article provides new terms and new ideas for building a more equitable, less violent, more sustainable future through the works of a man first known for his prize-winning book on the immorality of racism, whose later works focused on how we can create a future where we not only survive, but thrive. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5129 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Riane Eisler Pages: 3 - 3 Abstract: Riane 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. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5130 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Darcia Narvaez Pages: 4 - 4 Abstract: David Loye pointed us to one of Charles Darwin’s aims that often has been overlooked, to explain the evolution of humanity’s moral sense. Most people focus on Darwin’s aim to explain speciation, changes in traits across generations. In studying the moral sense, Darwin assumed it was innate, though he found it more evident among non-Western peoples he met than among his British compatriots. His finding is not a surprise if you understand when and how most human sociomoral capacities are shaped—after birth, by immersive experience. Humanity’s evolved developmental niche, or evolved nest, appears to be crucial for the development of moral sense because it provides the support needed to optimize the development of psychosocial neurobiological systems. To reestablish and maintain the moral sense, humanity needs to restore the provision of the evolved nest to all people, especially children. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5014 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Stefano Mercanti, Antonella Riem Pages: 5 - 5 Abstract: Riane Eisler’s partnership model and David Loye’s theory of Darwinian moral sensitivity are effective interdisciplinary frameworks for highlighting the dynamic interplay between dominator and equalitarian constructs that shape the history of our time. In this period of limited individual freedom and impending predatory globalism, branded as philanthropic altruism and environmental sustainability, this article uses both theories to offer life-enhancing and caring scenarios to move beyond top-down elitism and to promote a culture of peace. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5131 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Jonathan Lyonhart Pages: 6 - 6 Abstract: An underlying assumption of much of public and academic discourse is that logic is a universal language transferable between humans, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or culture. Conversely, personal experience is seen as simply that: personal. It may be a powerful way to illustrate a point or imbue it with passion, but it is not an argument in and of itself. Personal experience is particular, subjective, non-transferable, and ineffective due to its affective-ness. Yet our definitions of universal rationality have themselves been formed within particular contexts, primarily by Western males. Applying recent studies in the social sciences to a broader theory of knowledge, this paper will ask what androcratic assumptions males have brought into epistemology and what perspectives females have had to leave at the door' Specifically, is there a long-ignored partnership paradigm of female empathy (regardless of whether it is biologically or socially ingrained) that legitimates personal experience by allowing it to be transferable between humans' What might such a gylanic approach to knowledge yield for future ideologies and their corresponding social, political, and academic institutions' PubDate: 2022-10-28 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Judith Pechacek, Deborah Anderson , Rob Lund, Laurie Drill-Mellum Pages: 7 - 7 Abstract: Background: 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. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.4978 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Riane Eisler Pages: 8 - 8 Abstract: The 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. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5128 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Ralph Abraham Pages: 9 - 9 Abstract: Mathematician Ralph Abraham recounts memories of Dave Loye, Riane Eisler, Ervin Laszlo, the General Evolution Research Group, and their 37-year partnership. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5132 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Mauro Ceruti Pages: 10 - 10 Abstract: The work and the life of David Loye were prophetic, able to read the signs announcing a new human condition and the need for an anthropological metamorphosis. His foresight was undoubtedly rooted in his profound cosmological and anthropological vision of evolution, which marked his life and his thought. I cherish the memory of the overwhelming emotion with which, in a conference in 1986 in Florence, he shared his vision: “To sense how we humans are the inheritors of all this power and movement over space and time is at once awesome and humbling, but also exciting and inspiring. The residue of such feelings is the special sense of responsibility many scientists share: that all this shall not perish because of us” (Loye, 1987, p. 67). These words have since inspired my research. The following thoughts express my deep gratitude to David’s work and life, which are intrinsically related. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5133 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Allan Leslie Combs Pages: 11 - 11 Abstract: Systems theorist, consciousness researcher, and neuropsychologist Allan Leslie Combs presents a brief remembrance of a mentor who became a true friend. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5134 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Raymond Bradley Pages: 12 - 12 Abstract: A tribute briefly describing Raymond Bradley’s gratitude to David Loye for his friendship, support, and mentorship. Their relationship began through a mutual acquaintance, the world-renowned neuropsychologist Karl Pribram, and extended over four decades before David’s passing. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5135 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Kurt Johnson Pages: 13 - 13 Abstract: David Elliott Loye was a pioneer in our modern understanding of the Darwinian evolutionary paradigm. His contributions are discussed in the context of the most current evolutionary and cosmological views of science. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5136 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Alfonso Montuori Pages: 14 - 14 Abstract: This is a brief tribute to the late David Loye in the form of a personal reflection and a summary of some of his key earlier works. Loye was an immensely creative and passionate scholar who was always ahead of his time. He was also a remarkable and generous human being. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5144 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Ruth Richards Pages: 15 - 15 Abstract: This is an account of a creative hero, whom we shall dearly miss; a scholar, activist, scientist, writer, and creative spirit, who heard the call and took the risks to offer a truth that was eclipsed for 100 years, i.e., “Darwin’s Lost Theory.” This heroism is part of true creativity, with courage to challenge the status quo. David Loye went further with social implications, and—along with colleagues including Riane Eisler—drew connections with the burgeoning interest in general systems theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory, as well as humanistic and positive psychology and creativity studies. As a social change agent, he helped found important organizations along the way. Today this new story is returning and expanding, in a hopefully continuing process of a valid, inclusive science PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5145 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Tim Seldin Pages: 16 - 16 Abstract: This is a reflection, tribute, and appreciation for the contribution that David Loye made to partnership education, embodied in the community of more than 22,000 Montessori schools around the world. As the largest single international education reform movement, the collaboration among David, his wife, Riane Eisler, and Montessori Schools has been significant. It shows great promise for the years ahead to disseminate his findings and integrate them into mainstream education. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5146 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Teddie Potter, Heidi Bruce, Stephanie Gingerich, Renee Pardello, Quincey Tickner Pages: 17 - 17 Abstract: David Loye’s legacy shines through many aspects of the work undertaken at the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) and the Center for Partnership Systems (CPS). This article is a collection of tributes by journal editorial board members and CPS staff members in the form of personal reflections and key insights into Loye’s developed theory of moral sensitivity and his poetic contributions. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5147 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
Authors:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ervin Laszlo, Ralph Abraham, Allan Combs, Alfonso Montuori, Mae Wan Ho, Stanley Salthe, Raymond Bradley, Humberto Maturana, Paul MacLean, Daniel Levine Pages: 18 - 18 Abstract: Evolutionary systems theorist David Loye wrote many pioneering and engaging books throughout his lifetime; one of the best-known is Darwin’s Lost Theory: Bridge to a Better World (2007), a book that explores and overturns the longstanding notions of distinct Darwinism based upon a ‘survival of the fittest’ human mentality. Instead, Loye discovered and sought to bring to light Darwin’s long-ignored insights and a complete theory into the evolution of human morality as guided by moral action and love. In this article, colleagues of David Loye comment on this important book. PubDate: 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.24926/ijps.v9i2.5148 Issue No:Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022)
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