Lifehack’s Impact story — out now

(Illustration by Miranda Lees)

For the past few months we’ve been beavering away trying so sum up the learnings and impact from our mahi from the last couple of years. Two years ago, we started running our first experiments: the …

Lifehack Community Retreat: Better with friends

Kia ora Lifehack whānau. It’s four weeks out from the Lifehack Community Retreat of 4-6 March. We’re starting to get more than a little bit excited. Don’t have a ticket yet? Grab yours here.

Invite your friends!

You know …

Lifehack Community Retreat programme feedback

Thank you for your ideas

We’d like to give a huge shout-out to everybody who filled out our survey about the Lifehack Community Retreat.

We believe co-design is a crucial part of successful programmes for youth wellbeing and mental health. …

Bravery & Authenticity in a Digital World /w Brené Brown

What do you do with the 3am voice in your head, that tells you of your fears, that you’re not good enough, that something is wrong with you? Brené brown talks to Chase Jarvis about Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong …

Lifehack Nelson: Through the eyes of participants

Lifehack Nelson

After leaving Richmond, Nelson, we were at a loss to describe the amazing people we;’d encountered and had the privilege to work with. We asked one of the participants to provide a few words that sum up …

mHealth & Future tech symposium

The future of mHealth

On the 22nd + 23rd of October Toni and Simon attended the mHealth symposium in Auckland, hosted by the University of Auckland.

The way we access health-related services is changing throughout the world and …

Meet Kiran Patel: GEW 2015

We asked Kiran Patel to write something up for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015. Kiran is a part of the Lifehack Venture Support programme and founded Young Innovator’s Collective in Auckland, providing a place, space and platform for young people to …

Te Kōanga is GO!

We’re delighted to announce the launch of our new programme Te Kōanga!

Te Kōanga is a programme inspired by the energy of spring, new shoots of life, and that nervous excitement of possibility. We named it after te reo Māori …

Learnings from YOMO, and a farewell

Learnings from YOMO

Lifehack venture, YOMO, has decided to move on. Alex and Michael are making the decision to close shop for the foreseeable future to pursue other opportunities. Before they leave we wanted to gather some of their …

Nelson Tasman weekend event Final Project

Lifehack has finalised the third and final project for this weekend, we’re happy to announce that Nelson’s Live Arts will be joining us for the two and a half days this weekend.

Here’s a bit more info about Nelson …

Flourishing Fellowship 2015 Doco

A group of community champions embarked on Lifehack’s Flourishing Fellowship from across Aotearoa, New Zealand. The programme was designed to up-skill participants in wellbeing thinking and entrepreneurial tools for social impact, with a focus on improving the lives of young …

Only 4 Days until Nelson gets Lifehacked!

We are fortunate to be working alongside two projects that address some serious social issues that impact youth wellbeing. We’re also looking for anyone, of any age to come to this event as a participant.

Ten reasons to come …

What happened at the IAYMH conference in Montreal?

See our workshop post over here!

For the last couple of days we spent our time amongst young people and academics, joining together for the purpose of discussing, analysing, and sharing research about mental health. Individuals hailed to …

Pre-conference workshop with Young & Well and our youth co-convenors

Six of us sat around a white table in an apartment in Downtown Montreal. Half of us under 25, this team we were forming were meeting in person for the first time only 24 hours before running a full-day workshop …

Lifehack in Toronto

The Lifehack team has been on the road for nearly two weeks, meeting with the brightest minds in the space of public social innovation & impact en route to a conference in Montreal. After a couple of days in San …

Lifehack loose in New York

Can you imagine, our team loose in New York City en route to Montreal?

That was our reality last week in the lead up to the global conference for IAYMH (see original post here). My name is Chelsea, I’ve …

IAYMH Trip to Canada / USA

A few months ago we received an email inviting Lifehack to co-facilitate a workshop at a conference together with our friends at Young & Well Co-operative Research Centre in Australia and two young community leaders. The sender?

The International …

100 Resilient Cities : #ResilientWGTN

Visual Notes from Resilient Wellington Kick Off

“Urban Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.”

– ‘What is Urban Resilience’ – 100 Resilient …

Lifehack Nelson/Tasman: Welcoming Projects & Participants

Lifehack is coming to the Nelson Tasman region!

We’re excited to announce our Lifehack weekend coming up in November, running from Friday the 6th to Sunday the 8th.

Lifehack weekends are a great way for the community to …

The Startup Genome Project 2.0

The DNA of startups across the world is constantly being mapped and debated, we recently got a message from Zora Lopez who kindly linked us up with The Startup Genome Project 2.0 – an effort to better understand what and …