WorldSense paradigm: A multi-sensory framework for understanding reality.

Abstract

The WorldSense Paradigm offers a holistic framework for community psychology, integrating multi-sensory cognition, relational ontology, ancestral guidance, environmental forces, and spiritual dynamics. By moving beyond the visual-centric assumptions of Western epistemology, this paradigm provides a culturally grounded approach that is especially illustrative in African contexts, where ancestral, spiritual, and ecological interdependencies shape well-being. Incorporating the WorldSense Paradigm into practice encourages community psychologists to engage with communities through multi-modal, relational, and spiritually informed methodologies. By privileging these epistemologies, the paradigm addresses the limitations of Eurocentric frameworks, enabling practitioners to better capture lived realities, anticipate complex community dynamics, and co-create interventions that resonate with culturally grounded ways of knowing.