The MindTime Foundation is a Dutch foundation engaged in education and behavioral research and committed to social impact for good. The foundation oversees the use of the MindTime intellectual property and guides its ethical development.
At our heart, we are about creating coherence in communities. We invite communities and networks to use MindTime to map and poll themselves, gaining insight into how they think and how they can thrive together. Our tools support communities in building resilience by offering something simple yet powerful: a common language.
We recognize that the greatest challenge for any community is to truly understand itself. Shared purpose alone is not enough—without a shared language, there is no glue to hold the collective together. By giving people a way to see and name the differences and complementarities in their thinking, we help communities find that common ground and build stronger, more connected futures.
Citizen Science is a recently launched initiative to involve the public and share insightful data about how our thinking drives our opinions and views on so many things. People who sign up for Citizen Science will receive an occasional email with an invitation to participate in a mini-survey on important current events or research being conducted. Once they’ve responded, they get access to results and narrative insights. This eye-opening awareness initiative will soon be available to educational organizations so they can benefit by learning from their own student populations. Inquiries are taken here.
Thermomaps
Thermomaps are powerful visual tools that predict people’s responses. They illustrate the statistical likelihood of individuals with different thinking styles responding in particular ways to specific questions or scenarios.
Here are three poll items we are running:
How often do you reflect on past experiences when deciding whether to adopt new technology?
Are you willing to pay more for products that are environmentally friendly?
I feel I can make a difference to the world around me through the choices I make and the actions I take.
The key to reading the thermomap
A thermomap shows the range from negative to positive in people’s responses, blue indicates minimal resonance (negative) and red indicates strong resonance (positive), with the question. Yellow represents a more neutral sentiment.
