Posts by Gina Rembe
Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 1
This week we launched the initiative we’ve been working on for several months now – a design challenge with Massey University’s School of Design, focused on Everyday Wellbeing.
The design challenge fits into one semester, and is a double paper …
Read MoreEveryday Wellbeing – Design Challenge Overview
How might we unleash Aotearoa New Zealand’s young design talent on Everyday Wellbeing?
Lifehack and Massey University are kicking off a Design Challenge together in July 2015, focused on Everyday Wellbeing.
See the original announcement here, and links to all …
Read MoreWellbeing Needs More Than Just Psychologists
Wellbeing is not just the domain of Psychologists
This week we kick off our Design Challenge with Massey University’s College of Creative Arts. Whilst this seemed like an exciting next step for us at Lifehack, we thought it would be …
Read MoreCivic Engagement & Wellbeing
What kind of relationship do young people in Aotearoa New Zealand have with their country, and what does that translate to when we talk about what it means to be a citizen? MYD has approached Lifehack with these questions, and …
Read MoreYouth Law : A Case Study on Youth Engagement & Participatory Design
Recently we were approached by a small team who had big plans – make access to Youth Law much more simple, so that when young people interact with the legal system they are informed, get a fair go, and are …
Read MoreLifehack Māori Design Day
With Lifehack’s mahi we want to pay respect, represent, engrain different cultural values in our work. To explore what it means for our design to be “of this place” around Aotearoa New Zealand, we brought together some local minds in …
Read MoreLabs Chat – Child & Youth Mental Health in Canada
We’re constantly scanning the international frontiers to see what emerges around the world that we can learn from, build on, and generally improve our work to see 100% of young Kiwis flourishing by 2050. As an example, a short while …
Read MoreA Prototyping Mindset in Practice : Case Study on YOMO
For the best part of 2 years now, Lifehack has been experimenting with using Design processes to empower people to create new wellbeing interventions. Sometimes those Design processes are in the form of experiential weekends, sometimes they’re evening design …
Read MoreFlourishing Fellowship – Application Closing Date Extended : 27 May
Calling on good humans!
This is your last chance to get your applications in for the Flourishing Fellowship programme as applications have been extended to Wednesday 27th May at 5pm! Yes that’s Wednesday!
What is the Flourishing Fellowship you ask? …
Read MoreYouth Week Is Here – Get Your Free Purpose Check In!
It’s time!
We’re delighted to be online all day today – Monday 25th May – to help you check in with your goals, motivation and purpose. Want to read more about this? Check out our previous Youth Week blog …
Read MoreThe Lifehack & YOMO Design Sprint
How might we highlight high impact areas of exploration for Mindfulness Technology?
The work of social innovation and entrepreneurship isn’t often glamorous. It’s often a long period of fuzziness, confusion and hard work, followed by a breakthrough moment, followed …
Read MoreFlourishing Fellowship Applications Are Now Open!
Do you want to improve the lives of rangatahi in Aotearoa?
Our Flourishing Fellowship is now accepting applications!
Flourishing Fellows is a 3 month programme for 20 individuals from all backgrounds who want to find their identity in the work …
Read MoreYouth Week is coming & we’re planning awesomeness!
We’re pretty excited that Youth Week is almost upon us, and that this year’s theme is ‘We are the future / Kō tātau te ao o āpōpō’.
Here’s the video introducing this year’s action:
How might we give young
…Read MoreYoung Innovators Collective joins the Lifehack venture network!
What Makes You Come Alive?
This is the central question at the heart of Young Innovators Collective, and frankly – we love it!
We’ve been sitting on a bit of exciting news for awhile now, but today we’re stoked to …
Read MoreLaunching the Flourishing Fellowship 2015
At the start of April we asked the question: ‘How might we best support the people around Aotearoa who are championing Wellbeing and Flourishing thinking & projects?’
You can read the first blog here.
To further this, over the last …
Read MoreCollaborative Trust – Youth Wellbeing Research Hui
One of the greatest parts of our work is being able to learn about and connect, different worlds. One of those instances was the Collaborative Trust’s Research Hui, who annually convene social workers, academics, youth workers, researchers and people interested …
Read MoreLifehack’s Focus Areas in 2015
Over the course of 2014, Lifehack gained new ground and understanding about the relationship of Wellbeing and Mental Health, and specifically how working proactively on wellbeing, we have the potential to make a difference to people who are struggling with …
Read MoreWelcoming Simon Jarvis to Lifehack!
Introducing Simon Jarvis – one of our awesome new team members!
Member of the pack.
Overwhelming feelings of respect, worry, and wonder. All colliding simultaneously inside an already rather cluttered cortex.
Breathe. Breathe deep.
Exhale.
One foot after another …
Read MoreWhat is a Social Innovation Lab? [Part 2]
image courtesy of DESIS: http://www.newschool.edu/desis/
We’ve talked a bit recently about how Lifehack emerged in 2014 to go beyond running a few events, and start asking the hard questions about the role of social innovation in improving youth wellbeing, and …
Read MoreWelcoming Dayna Carter to the Lifehack team
My working background has an array of colours as I’ve dipped my toes in many areas, from hospitality, …
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