The facilitator training guides you through the Worldview Journey, while offering you the resources to facilitate it with your own participants
- The Worldview Journey consists of 3 journeys that invite learners to explore, exchange, and expand their worldviews. The program is well-researched and developed together with Utrecht University. It’s fun, interactive and supported by excellent learning resources.
- The training consists of 8 online sessions of 2 hours each, combined with prep at home.
- Sessions are recorded, and absent participants may be paired to practice together. This set-up also enables people in different time-zones to successfully participate.
- The facilitator training is for anyone curious to deepen their understanding of their own and others’ worldviews; discover potent new learning methods; and facilitate transformative learning in a world in crisis!
Schedule
The sessions take place every other Tuesday at 5 pm CET, from March 11th through June 17th 2025. Each session is ± 2 hours long.
- March 11th: Intro – Set the scene, articulate aims, get to know each other
- March 25th: Theory – Understand main concepts, ideas, and research findings
- April 8th: Worldview Journey 1 – Explore your worldview
- April 22nd: Worldview Journey 2 – Exchange across worldviews
- May 6th: Worldview Journey 3 – Expand your worldview
- May 20th: Praxis – Master facilitation essentials, revisit core concepts
- June 3rd: Case-clinic – Bring questions, issues, & real-life examples
- June 17th: Completion – Envision your expanded future
Some testimonials
“I loved exploring the core questions as these were stimulating, energising and challenging!”
“The dialogues were the highlight. … this program generated intimacy, sharing, connection and relating. The experience was … supportive of personal and collective reflection.”
“The most valuable part of the program was … the possibility to meet and connect to other people also interested in worldviews, our planet in crisis and actionable yet wise ways to do something about it. That was so great and actually a big portion of hope for me.”
“I appreciated the structure of the training … the entire setup was highly effective.”
“I loved the way each module was similarly structured providing consistency across materials.”
“I found the program to be very well designed and the content absolutely great.”
“Videos were of high quality, the content providing unusual syntheses. Everything to me felt digestible – not consuming too much time.”
“… warm and trusting setting to share, learn and reflect … Annicks wonderful personality and holding the space for all of us.”
“The program provided exceptional value … The information delivery was outstanding … the conversations with fascinating individuals were highly valuable … a comprehensive and impactful learning journey.”
What you can expect to get out of this training:
- A deep learning Journey that may shift how you understand the world and yourself, including a reassessment of your worldview, an examination of how you relate to other perspectives, and an inquiry into how you relate to nature and the planet at large.
- Knowledge of, and experience with, transformative learning methods (e.g., dialogue practice, journaling, worldview-interview, existential nature walk);
- Understanding both the theory and praxis of transformative learning, including how to facilitate such learning in your own contexts;
- A transformative learning approach to use in your own context, including a year-long access to all learner resources and the platform;
- A certificate for facilitating the Worldview Journey (after completion of the training and submission of a short reflective essay);
- A community – meaningful connections with fellow pioneers from diverse contexts, organisations, and universities across the globe.
About the instructors of this training
Annick de Witt (Ph.D.) is director of Worldview Journeys, and a researcher and educator affiliated with Utrecht University. Her research into worldviews resulted in many publications and a new, research-based worldview-measurement.
Annick is particularly interested in contributing to the ‘education of the future’ in our world in crisis. She has developed the Worldview Journey together with colleagues from Utrecht University.
Annick is a skilled facilitator, with 2+ decades of experience in diverse transformative approaches, including the Art of Hosting, the Work that Reconnects, Inquiry practice, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and yoga and mindfulness.
Dave Pendle (M.A.) is an experienced facilitator and trainer, oriented to ‘generative leadership’ for co-creating an ecological civilization.
Dave brings years of experience in transformative group work and mindfulness training. Additionally, he has an extensive background in work with excluded children and young adults in the U.K, ranging from front facing service delivery, project management and quality improvement to innovation and workforce development.
As facilitator, Dave shows up with an enlivening, wise, and embodied presence. His beautiful mindfulness meditations bring a grounding, opening quality to our sessions.
