Worldview Journeys

Our mission is to support people to explore, exchange, and expand their worldviews, empowering them to enact a better world.

Worldviews refer to the ‘big stories’ through which humans make sense of their experience and world. As our worldviews define what we consider true, worthwhile, and moral, they shape our lives and world to a great extent. In the words of cultural historian Richard Tarnas: “worldviews create worlds.”

Worldviews are often seen as both root causes of our world’s crisis as well as deep leverage points for addressing it. Examining them may therefore offer potent pathways forward.

We develop transformative learning tools and trajectories that invite people to

• Explore the big, existential questions that worldviews give answers to;
• Exchange constructively with those who think differently;
• Expand their worldviews to include nature and the planet, and
• Enact their views in service of a better world for all.

Data-analysis by political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel asserts that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world. As their results show, massive cultural change is observed over time and throughout the world, with a shift from traditional values dominant in more agrarian societies (resonant with the traditional worldview), to secular-rational values in industrial societies (modern worldview). As well as a shift from survival values to self-expression values dominant in post-industrial societies (postmodern worldview). This suggests at least the traditional, modern, and postmodern worldviews are observed beyond the West as well. The integrative worldview is not (yet?) clearly distinguished by the World Values Survey, but has been extensively described by various philosophers (for example by Jean Gebser, and more contemporarily by Ken Wilber) and is also recognized in empirical work.

In this publication you can find a much more elaborate version of the above table (on p. 102), as well as an extensive report of the study the Worldview Test is based on. Here you can read about the research-approach that was used to develop the Worldview Test. …

Annick has a broad background in the field of sustainability transformation. Her extensive research into worldviews resulted in many academic publications as well as a new worldview-measurement, the Worldview Test, which is used across the globe as educational tool. These days, she sees herself primarily as educational designer working on the "education of the future". Annick has written about these topics both scientifically and popularly. She is also a passionate speaker and a skilled facilitator, with a background in transformative approaches, including the Art of Hosting, the Work that Reconnects, yoga and mindfulness, and the Ridhwan School’s Inquiry practice.