The definition of worldview, “A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group,” can be hard to identify. Your worldview is so familiar that you usually forget it is just a construct, and not the truth. I guess that’s the point of a worldview, to give each of us a coherent way to understand things that take place around us and make sense of the events in our lives.
But worldviews are more than just lenses that passively shape how we see the world. They influence how we interpret what happens. This in turn influences our perception, our decisions, our words, and our actions, so that what is reflected back to us in the outside world ends up confirming the view in our inner world. The thing is, this all happens without much conscious thought. Things are the way they are. Seldom do we wonder — or at least I will speak for myself — seldom did I wonder about this. So for much of my life. I didn’t make the link between the way my worldview shaped my world.
That all changed when I began my journey working with the Genuine Contact™ approach. At the first training I attended in 2001 it became clear that in order to be work with it as a consultant using this approach, I couldn’t just “play” at it. If I was going to be successful, I would have to do that authentically. This meant that I had to believe, for example, that the…
