The Volunteer loves to get their hands dirty, working for what inspires them.

We volunteer because we care, we believe and we have a passion for that which draws us into volunteering, and that which we volunteer for.

Volunteering is all about learning something new about ourselves, what makes us work, what inspires, and what drives our emotion. Volunteering is all about doing something for “nothing” (not being paid), or increasingly, paying to do it.

The reason we do it for “nothing”, is that we get everything in return, we learn and find things out that we could never find doing our day job. The fact that we either don’t get paid, or pay ourselves, means that we look at everything with a more inquisitive and value seeking mind. It drives our urge for improvement. In many ways we will seek to be able to translate the environment we work in, into our mental “normal”.

Over time and the more we volunteer, there is a challenge to our “mental normal” and this is good. Now we can start looking at how to improve environments and increase well-beings within the relevant contexts and not our own one. This means we don’t shift developement to us, but rather shift ourselves into developement.

Learn a new way, and then improve it.