Volunteer guide.

Welcome

Thanks for helping. We’ve kept this deliberately small and genuinely useful — the kind of thing you can do well in a short volunteering window without a lot of structure or oversight.

We’re a non-profit building what-world-way: a short, free assessment that gives people a portrait of how they’re wired — the role they tend to give others, the kind of world they feel at home in, and their way of travelling through it. People find their own result surprisingly accurate, and that reaction is the whole reason this works.

Your task is simple: take it yourself, then mention it — gently and only where it’s natural — to people who’d find it interesting.

Step 1 — Take it yourself (this is the important bit)

Before anything else, take what-world-way using your personal link (we’ll give you one).

This matters more than the sharing. Taking it means you have a real, honest opinion to share, and it gives us a genuine data point even if you do nothing else. If you only ever do Step 1, you’ve already helped.

Take your time with the result. Notice what rang true and what didn’t — that’s exactly the kind of thing worth mentioning to a friend.

Step 2 — Mention it, gently, only where it’s natural

That’s the whole job. Not a campaign, not a pitch — a real, personal mention. The spirit: “I took this thing called what-world-way, and the result was oddly accurate — kind of interesting.” In your own words, always.

Where it works:

• A friend or two you think would genuinely enjoy it.
• A group you’re already part of — where this kind of thing naturally comes up and you’d be comfortable mentioning anything you found interesting.
• Your own social feed — if you’re genuinely comfortable. It’s your space, and sharing something you found interesting is natural there. In your own words, just once; no need to make a campaign of it.

The one rule that matters: only where it’s natural.

One authentic mention beats ten posts. Please don’t drop it into five groups at once, post it where it’ll read as promotion, or do anything that feels like advertising. That does us more harm than silence — it makes a thing people discover look like a thing people are sold. If it would feel even slightly like spamming to you, don’t post it. We’d genuinely rather have nothing than that.

Your link

You’ll get a short personal link, like whatworldway.com/volunteer/yourname. It’s clean — no tracking codes, nothing that screams “marketing” — and it’s honest: it simply says you’re one of our volunteers. We’d rather be open about that than hide it.

Share that link when you mention it. Behind the scenes it quietly lets us see that a sign-up came from you — which is simply how we know whom to thank. There’s nothing to manage and nothing to report.

Be open that you volunteer with us. If it comes up, just say so — “I help out a non-profit called Potentialisation and took their thing.” It’s true, it’s nothing to hide, and honesty actually makes your mention land better, not worse. People trust “I volunteer for them and even I was surprised how accurate my result was” far more than a recommendation that turns out to have a quiet stake behind it.

Optional — following and engaging with us online

Some of you have asked whether you can follow us — our blog, LinkedIn, and so on. Yes, and it’s welcome. This is entirely optional and on top of the actual task (Steps 1 and 2 are the whole job). A few things keep it genuine — and genuinely helpful, rather than the opposite:

Engage like a real person — because you are one.

• A short comment in your own words is worth far more than a like. Likes are the weakest signal there is, and a wall of them from the same few people helps less than you’d think.
• Please don’t all jump on the same post at the same moment. When a cluster of accounts engages with one post in a tight window, the platforms read it as coordinated and show it to fewer people — the exact opposite of what we want. Engage whenever you happen to see it, in your own time.
• It’s completely fine to skip posts. You don’t need to react to everything — being selective is more natural, and more believable.
• One channel you actually use beats following us on five you don’t.
• Your own honest take — a few words in your voice about what you found interesting — travels further than re-sharing ours, and reaches people we never could.

Same spirit as the rest of this guide: a few real, human interactions beat a pile of identical ones. If it would feel even slightly like a staged campaign, that’s the signal to keep it natural instead.

A genuine thank-you

This is real, so we treat it as real. We notice who helps, we’ll thank you personally, and we’re always glad to vouch for people who give their time and do it well.

If you’re taking part through a volunteering programme, any formal recognition is arranged through that programme’s own process — we’ll make sure it actually happens for people who genuinely contribute.

The Slack channel

We run a small Slack channel for everyone doing this. It’s where you’ll find your link, ask anything, and see what’s coming in week to week. Pop in whenever suits you — it’s there to support you, not to add to your plate.

A note on honesty

Never overstate it. “The result was interesting / oddly accurate” is the truth and it’s enough. Don’t claim it’s scientifically proven, life-changing, or anything you don’t actually believe. The whole product rests on people trusting that the reaction is genuine — yours included.