the cultural translator

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Know your lens.
Understand theirs.

The work of cultural translation starts with self-awareness. Take the private assessment, then meet the three worldviews beneath many of today’s hardest conversations.

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Worldview assessment

What lens do you bring into the room?

Rate the same 18 statements used in the original Cultural Translation assessment. Your completed answers and results are saved with your name and email.

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Before you begin18 questions · about 4 minutes

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Watch & learn

Meet the
three worldviews.

Three short introductions from Rich Tafel. Start with your strongest result—or watch all three to practice seeing through another lens.

Worldview 01

Traditional

Explore a worldview grounded in inherited wisdom, faith, order, duty, and continuity.Watch on YouTube

Worldview 02

Modern

Explore a worldview shaped by evidence, reason, freedom, progress, and individual agency.Watch on YouTube

Worldview 03

Postmodern

Explore a worldview attentive to power, systems, identity, and the authority of lived experience.Watch on YouTube

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The assessment opens the door.
The book shows you how to walk through it.

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