Worldview Journeys
Exploring views. Bridging worlds
Polarization is tearing us apart. But what if the real fault lines aren’t political — but about how we see the world itself?
Worldviews are the ‘big stories’ through which we interpret and co-create our experience and world. They shape what we consider true and valuable, who we trust, and what solutions we see.
This makes worldviews both a root cause of the crises of our time and a deep leverage point for addressing them.
Worldview Journeys brings a worldview lens to the great challenges of our time — and translates this, through rigorous research and innovation, into concrete and scalable interventions for personal, cultural, and systems change.
Take the Test
What’s your worldview?
The Worldview Test is grounded in research and has been taken by almost 100,000 people from across the globe.
It takes only ten minutes and you’ll get your results right away! Your data is 100% anonymous. Check our privacy policy.
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Take the Journey!
Develop deep worldview literacy
The Worldview Journey is a research-informed, transformative learning program combining powerful knowledge, deep dialogue, and experiential learning. It fosters four profound shifts:
We offer this program in an accessible format of six live sessions online, twice a year. Currently, a cohort is underway; the next one is expected in the Fall.
Use SoC practice
Facilitating generative dialogue
The Stream of Consciousness (SoC) practice is a powerful method for facilitating more generative conversations, supporting people to build trust and connections and come to new insights and perspectives. The practice is easy to use and tends to result in a plethora of learning outcomes.
We regularly offer free sessions where you can experience this practice as well as workshops that teach you how to use it in your own contexts. Check our events page and sign up to our newsletter (above) to stay posted!
Take Group Test
Explore your group’s worldviews
Our platform offers diverse tools and possibilities, including:
- a culture scan of your group/org;
- worldview-diverse groups, supporting exchange across perspectives;
- an extensive database; and
- research tools to conduct studies.
Why we’re unique
Seeing the lenses that shape our world to change our world
Dialogue Lab @ UU
Collaborative project
The Generative Dialogue Lab is a new initiative at Utrecht University, spearheaded by our director Annick de Witt, to bring students, staff, and stakeholders together to experiment with innovative approaches for engaging in more meaningful conversations.
The Lab aims to embed generative dialogue at the university through four mutually reinforcing pillars: Education; Culture; Systems; and Research.
Our monthly Break your Bubble (ByB) sessions use the SoC practice to explore a wide range of topics — from politics to mental health, from AI to war and peace. So far, participants have evaluated these sessions extremely positively.
In the press
Sense making through worldviews
Make sense through a worldview lens! Sign up for our World/views (Substack), where we write about worldviews, polarization, politics, cultural change, education, and more.
We also contribute to societal debates through op-eds in in quality newspapers, like this one in NRC.
More popular writing is underway in ambitions for a booklet on generative dialogue — presenting the Stream of Consciousness (SoC) dialogue practice as a new pathway for cultural change.
Or check our academic publications, In a forthcoming paper, we explore what ‘an education of the future’ could and should like, presenting the Human Democratic Capabilities Meta-Map. Several other papers are lined up for publication.