An presentation generator is disclosed for generating presentations for interacting with a user on a personal topic of, e.g., the user's selection, wherein the presentations assist the user in obtaining a greater awareness of his / her motivations and / or behaviors relating to the topic. In one embodiment, the presentation generator generates and presents to the user textual observations, questions, and / or statements for the user's consideration. Such presentations use and / or are consistent with textual descriptions obtained from: (a) the results of one or more personality / motivation test results, and (b) user inputs, e.g., regarding the selected topic together with his / her confidence in the validity of such inputs. The invention organizes the textual descriptions so that outputs to the user can be generated from various personality / motivational perspectives thereby assisting the user in viewing the topic of discussion from different perspectives and thereby becoming more aware of his / her biases, motivations, and / or concerns relating to the topic.