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 is dedicated to helping people explore their worldviews, engage across diverse perspectives, and develop the mindsets our time demands. Through rigorously designed learning journeys and innovative dialogue methods, we offer a unique pathway 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.
“Worldviews create worlds.” Seeing them is power for positive, creative change.
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Why we’re unique
Seeing the lenses that shape our world to change our world
Take Group Test
Explore your group’s worldviews
Make a culture scan to get a sense of the worldviews in your group. Facilitate deep learning by dialoguing about how worldviews shape what we think and do.
Make worldview-diverse groups to support people to dialogue across diverse perspectives, leveraging their potential for innovation and creative change.
Explore our database with results from people from more than 200 countries. Use Research Tools to conduct your own studies and combine with other data-sets.
Learn about the major worldviews in (Western) society today.
In the press
Sense making through worldviews
Our director Annick de Witt writes about worldviews, polarization, politics, cultural change, and education, on World/views (Substack), in academic publications, and in quality newspapers like NRC.
She is also writing a book on generative dialogue — presenting the Stream of Consciousness (SoC) dialogue practice as a new tool and pathway for cultural change, grounded in the insight that we cannot change culture directly, but we can change the conversation.
In a forthcoming paper, she explores what ‘an education of the future’ could and should like, presenting the Human Democratic Capabilities Meta-Map.
In 2026, she is co-convening a track on Worldviews, Sensemaking, and Cultural Evolution in Sustainability Transitions at the International Sustainability Transitions Conference in Zurich.
Take the Journey!
Navigate meaning, difference, and complexity in a world in crisis
This May we’ll for the first time offer the full Worldview Journey, open to anyone!
The Worldview Journey is a research-informed, transformative learning program that brings together powerful knowledge, deep dialogue, and experiential learning.
It fosters four profound shifts:
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!
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!