Discover the often-unconscious driving force that shapes your perceptions, decisions, and actions – and learn to align it with your deepest intentions for more powerful, authentic leadership.
Join leaders, consultants, and change-makers from around the world who have discovered this transformative approach to conscious self-awareness and intentional leadership of your life.
The Hidden Cost of Unconscious Worldviews
Every day, leaders and organizations operate from unconscious beliefs, assumptions, and values that create unintended consequences and limit their potential for positive impact.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Your worldview shapes what you perceive, which shapes your actions, which confirms your worldview – creating cycles that may no longer serve you or your organization.
- Unexamined Assumptions Drive Decisions: Without conscious awareness, unhelpful beliefs and assumptions that you may be carrying guide your leadership, limiting your ability to create the culture and outcomes you truly desire.
- Increased Conflict: When people don’t understand their own worldview or recognize that others operate from different worldviews, conflict becomes personal rather than productive.
- Values and Actions Misalign: Leaders often struggle to achieve their goals because something invisible keeps getting in the way – the gap between their stated intentions and their unconscious worldview.
The cost of operating from an unconscious worldview isn’t just missed opportunities – it’s the disconnection between who you want to be as a leader and how you actually show up in the world.
Attending to Your Worldview Creates Conscious Leadership
Attending to Your Worldview is a powerful learning module that brings your worldview into consciousness, allowing you to examine, refine, and intentionally work with the beliefs, values, and assumptions that shape your reality and leadership.
Understand What Shapes Your Reality
Your worldview is a collection of values, attitudes, beliefs, and expectations that inform your thoughts and actions. Learn to recognize how your worldview shapes everything you see, experience, and create – and discover the agency to change it.
Reduce Conflict and Enhance Decision-Making
When you consciously understand your worldview and those of the people you work with, conflict is reduced and decision-making becomes easier. Your awareness supports you to consciously set out a collective path to the future.
Align Your Mind, Heart, and Action
Work with the often-unconscious patterns beneath your thoughts and emotions, bringing clarity about which beliefs and assumptions are best to work with when bringing your mind, heart, and action into alignment.
Create Life-Nourishing Conditions
Whether working individually, with your team, or across your organization, consciously working with worldview supports you to create more life-nourishing rather than life-depleting conditions in your work and life.
Your Complete Learning Journey
This comprehensive module takes you through 6 phases of learning based on the Evolutionary Spiral, with each phase building upon the previous to ensure deep understanding and practical application.
Discernment: Understanding Worldview
Establish baseline measurements of your current knowledge and explore what a worldview is through definitions, visual exercises, and personal reflection. Understand how worldviews shape life experiences and begin to make conscious what is often unconscious.
- Complete a baseline measurement tool to assess your current worldview awareness
- Develop a clear personal definition of worldview
- Explore your personal story of what brought you to this learning
Readiness: Exploring Different Worldviews
Learn about common worldviews and identify which resonates most with your personal perspective and organizational observations. Examine how worldviews influence the way leaders and people work within organizations.
- Identify which worldview corresponds most with your current perspective
- Examine how worldview influences organizational operations and leadership
- Make connections between worldview and workplace dynamics
Engagement: Mapping Your Current Worldview
Dive deep into understanding your personal worldview using the Deep Essence Tool, mapping out both your current and preferred worldviews across seven dimensions: story, spirit, purpose, values, assumptions, structures, and behaviors/actions.
- Use the Deep Essence Tool to map your current worldview
- Articulate your preferred worldview across seven dimensions
- Identify similarities and differences between current and preferred worldviews
- Focus on detailed self-reflection and comparison
Construction: Designing Your Preferred Worldview
Analyze the differences between your current and preferred worldviews, identifying what aspects to carry forward, what to let go of, and what new elements need to be adopted. Create a conscious design for working with your preferred worldview.
- Identify what to carry forward from your current worldview
- Determine what beliefs, values, and actions need to shift or be released
- Articulate what needs to be adopted to align with your preferred worldview
Implementation: Turning Ideas into Practice
Develop practical strategies for turning your preferred worldview into daily practice. Create implementation plans focused on structures and behaviors, identify ways to increase awareness of your worldview in action, and develop creative touchstones to anchor your preferred worldview.
- Design specific structures that support your preferred worldview
- Identify concrete behaviors and actions that embody your preferred worldview
- Develop strategies for noticing when you’re operating from your preferred worldview
Monitoring & Adjustment: Supporting Long-Term Development
Learn to monitor your worldview development by measuring against your baseline and developing ongoing reflection practices. Consider how to make adjustments to your worldview or implementation plans and explore peer mentoring opportunities for continued support.
- Measure your learning progress against baseline measurements
- Develop ongoing monitoring systems for worldview development
- Establish regular reflection practices for continued growth
- Join facilitated peer-with-peer mentoring circles for ongoing support
How the Workshop Works
Who This Serves
This workshop is for leaders, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists who:
- Have clear intentions or dreams but struggle because something invisible keeps getting in the way
- Want to align their stated values with how they actually show up
- Are developing organizational culture and need conscious awareness of their own worldview first
- Recognize that tensions with others may stem from different worldviews, not personal conflicts
- Are ready to examine the often-unconscious patterns beneath their thoughts and emotions
- Value learning in a small group where diverse perspectives deepen understanding
You don’t need prior experience with the Genuine Contact program. This module stands on its own and serves as an excellent entry point into conscious, intentional leadership.
Your Facilitators
Doris and Rachel are the co-creators of this module, collaborating as consultants and organizational leaders since 2015. The workshop grew from their shared experience with clients and their work developing the International GCO – learning what it takes to consciously work with worldview in both consulting relationships and their own leadership practice.
Upcoming Workshop Details
🗓️ Dates: January 29 & 30, 2026
⌚ Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (check local time zone)
💻 Format: Live online via Zoom
💳 Investment:
- Early Bird: $397 USD (register by January 7, 2026)
- Regular: $497 USD (after January 7)
- Genuine Contact Organization members receive 10% off both rates
All pre-work and workshop materials remain available for one year after the workshop concludes.
Ready to Begin?
Don’t let another month pass operating from unconscious assumptions that may no longer serve you.
The early bird rate is available until January 7. If you’ve been feeling the gap between your intentions and how you show up, or if you simply know that conscious awareness of your worldview will strengthen your leadership, this is your invitation.
Registration is limited to 20 participants to ensure everyone receives maximum benefit from the participatory process.
Questions about your registration? Contact us!
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should attend this workshop?
Leaders, consultants, managers, and organizational development specialists who want to develop authentic leadership grounded in conscious awareness. Perfect for formal leaders developing organizational culture, aspiring leaders transitioning into leadership roles, people seeking to align mind, heart, and action, and anyone with clear intentions or dreams they want to achieve but struggle because something keeps getting in the way.
Do I need prior experience with the Genuine Contact program to attend?
No prior experience is required. This module has value on its own and serves as an excellent entry point into the Genuine Contact way of working. The workshop begins with foundational concepts and progresses through practical implementation.
What makes this different from other leadership development programs?
This learning module systematically brings worldview into consciousness as a foundation for leadership effectiveness. You’ll learn not just leadership techniques, but how to work with the often-unconscious driving force that shapes your perceptions, decisions, and actions. This creates sustainable transformation from the inside out.
Will I be able to implement my learning immediately after the workshop?
Yes. You’ll leave with a clear understanding of your preferred worldview, specific implementation plans with structures and behaviors to practice, creative touchstones to remind you of your worldview, and ongoing mentoring support. The 6-phase approach ensures you’re ready for practical application.
What ongoing support is provided?
You’ll have access to regular facilitated peer-to-peer mentoring circles led by Genuine Contact trainers. You also receive a 1-year complementary membership* to the Genuine Contact Organization where you will find ongoing consultation opportunities and a global network of practitioners committed to conscious, life-nourishing leadership for continued learning and support.
What if I cannot attend this virtual workshop? Will it be offered again?
We offer this module twice annually. Other GC Trainers may offer this module online or in-person globally. You can also request this module be delivered via 1:1 or small-group mentoring for you or a group of your chosen participants, like a leadership team or consulting partnership. Contact us for details.
*1-year complementary membership available to participants taking their first Genuine Contact learning module only.
Transform How You Lead and Live Forever
The leaders who create the most positive impact are those who consciously understand their worldview and intentionally align their perceptions, values, and actions with their deepest intentions. Don’t let another month pass operating from unconscious assumptions that may no longer serve you.
Join leaders from around the world who have brought their worldview into consciousness and are creating authentic, powerful leadership that nourishes life.
Part of the Genuine Contact Way
This module offers a complete set of skills and knowledge that creates value on its own. It’s also part of the Genuine Contact Way – a modular approach designed with intention. You can engage with specific modules to meet particular goals in your work and life. When you’re ready to expand your learning, comprehensive Learning Paths are available, including Simplifying Leadership, Participatory Methods that Get Results, Designing Thriving Organizations, Aligning with Your Genuine Self, and Train the Trainer.
A Global Network of Authorized Trainers
Birgitt Williams and Rachel Bolton are authorized Genuine Contact Trainers. They are part of a global network of professional trainers and facilitators who teach the 19 learning modules included in the Genuine Contact Way of Working – including this one. You’ll find a complete listing of upcoming workshop dates – online and in-person and offered in several languages to suit your learning preferences in the International Genuine Contact Organization’s upcoming events calendar.
