Utrecht Area
I'm a worldview researcher, author, and educator. I'm affiliated with Utrecht University, where I lead the Generative Dialogue Lab. I'm also the founding director of Worldview Journeys, a non-profit organization that builds tools and program to enhance our individual and collective 'worldview-awareness'. Some significant recent work includes an essay entitled 'Toxic Polarization is Killing Us' (2025). See: https://annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us. The foundation for much of my work on worldviews can be found in a peer-reviewed publication in Environmental Science and Policy in 2016: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116301794. This work also created the foundation for the Worldview Test that has now been taken by more than 80.000 people: https://wvtest.com/responses/5b9vx2/intro More than a decade ago I completed my doctoral dissertation on worldviews and sustainable transformation (VU University, Amsterdam). My research has resulted in over a dozen academic, peer-reviewed publications as well as a new worldview-model and test, which are being applied in different settings globally, from research to education to transformation.
Adjunct assistant professor at Utrecht University. Author, consultant, change-maker for the cultural transformation towards sustainability.
Worldview Journeys is an interactive platform offering transformative, science-based learning tools and programs that bring awareness to our worldviews ~ the ‘big stories’ through which humans make sense of their experience and world. Our programs can be used online and live, by individuals and with groups.
The NatureCollege is a Dutch organization founded by Princess Irene, based on the simple yet profound truth that addressing our sustainability-issues demands an interior transformation (a transformation in our values, culture, worldview, and consciousness) as much as it demands an exterior transformation (a transformation of our politics, economies, institutions, and behaviors).
Annick was a post-doctoral research fellow at the section Biotechnology and Society, at Delft University of Technology, for a number of years. In her research, she explored the complex, societal debate concerning the emerging ‘bio-economy,’ with the aim of generating insight in the underlying worldviews of both stakeholders and the larger public, and formulating policy-advice. She also developed and taught courses in 'Biotechnology and Society' in which life science students were stimulated to grapple with the complex societal and ethical implications of newly emerging biotechnologies.
Annick was a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) from 2008 to 2012. In her work she explored the relationship between ‘worldviews’ (or: ‘philosophies of life’) and the ways these relate to goals and issues of sustainable development, including social-cultural change, individual environmental behaviour and policy attempts to influence these. Annick has an interdisciplinary background in the social and policy dimensions of the environmental sciences, with a focus on environmental philosophy, psychology and sociology.