What Worldview Theme Playing Cards Do You Hold?

What Worldview Theme Playing Cards Do You Hold?

A person's worldview—his or her comprehensive conception of the world as a whole—is unique, extraordinarily complicated, and thus difficult to characterize and get a handle on. While obviously providing only a first approximation, use of worldview theme cards provides a way of doing this. This project Worldview website provides complete descriptions of eighty worldview themes housed on fifty-two playing cards (some cards hold two related themes, others contain only one). Use of regularly sized playing cards limits information contained to a manageable amount, and helps one relate these worldview theme cards to playing a game.

In the game of life you constantly interact with people. The outcome of serious confrontations—constructive information exchange, compromise, dispute resolution, personal growth, or uncompromising standoffishness, fighting, relationship breakdown, fear—often critically depends on the participants’ worldviews and how well they understand and accept them. As in sitting down to play cards, the better idea you have of the cards each person holds, the easier it will be to steer the game's outcome to your liking! Of course the starting point is understanding what cards you hold!

To get started characterizing your own worldview in this way, explore project Worldview's Reality Marketplace and become acquainted with the worldview themes. Then, use the Top Cards and Discards Program for a quick characterization. For a more complete characterization explore all 50 Worldview Development Questions, systematically complete the brief questionnaires for each worldview theme, and finally run the Worldview Analysis Program (part of The Worldview Kit offering).

pictured above: the top cards held by a typical USA Adult based on the results of 470 public opinion survey questions. Such cards —or others created using the Custom Cards program —can be used in playing The Worldview Explorer Card Game (both are part of The Worldview Kit offering)

Caution: "As you shop in 'The Reality Marketplace' avoid spending your 'reality cash' too early, before you have seen everything!” from Coming of Age in the Global Village, by Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.