Posts by Gina Rembe
Press Release: Lifehack & Massey University Collaborate For Everyday Wellbeing
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Lifehack and Massey University collaborate for Everyday Wellbeing
Improving everyday wellbeing for young Kiwis through social entrepreneurship will be one of the focuses of an exciting new Design Challenge project for visual communication design students attending Massey …
Read MoreThe Spark That Began Lifehack’s Fellowship Program
How might we best support the people around Aotearoa who are championing Wellbeing and Flourishing thinking & projects?
For the last 18 months we’ve been focused on how we can get behind what’s already working, and catalysing new projects in …
Read MoreDesign for Complexity – Talking Social Innovation Practice
What is the role of Design in Social Innovation?
We’ve been asking ourselves this a lot recently, and we were delighted when we were asked to drop in to Massey University’s Design School to speak to the 4th year students …
Read MoreVenture Support with GoFlo on the Wild West Coast
We’ve been hard at work supporting the Ventures which emerged from Lifehack Labs 2014 which are focused on supporting young Kiwis to live better lives.
Most of our support is remote – whether it’s in the form of coaching phone …
Read MoreDeveloping Social Technologies – Two Pioneering Reports
How do technologies which improve lives get developed?
We’ve been asking ourselves this question at Lifehack for 18 months now, and feel like we’re beginning to find some of our own answers. Not only are we seeing the development of …
Read Moree-Mental Health Roundtable : Inaugural Gathering
How might we better co-ordinate and collaborate within the e-mental health community?
We were delighted when we received an email from Dr Terry Fleming (of SPARX & University of Auckland) inviting us to the inaugural round table of e-mental health …
Read MoreWhat is a Social Innovation Lab?
Social Innovation Labs, like Lifehack, are established to tackle wicked problems – problems where the elements involved are ever moving, changing and morphing. They’re interconnected. That makes solving the problems very difficult, some would say impossible. Whilst you can’t solve …
Read More10 Things You Need To Know About Lifehack in 2015
Phew! What a powerful start to the year. 2014 ended at a sprint, and after a Summer break, 2015 has resumed the same energy. We’d love you to get involved with Lifehack in 2015, and thanks to your input into …
Read MoreLifehack Public Survey Results – Crowdsourcing Lifehack’s Direction In 2015
At the start of the year we began the process of crowdsourcing our direction for 2015, building on all of the work of 2014.
For several weeks we had some amazing responses from you all through our public survey, as …
Read MoreLifehack Venture Updates: Live The Dream & The App Store
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We’ve been working behind the scenes with a variety of projects & ventures since Lifehack Labs in September 2014, supporting the amazing young teams to get a great foundation to their work to build ventures to enhance …
Read MoreLifehack Labs 2014 – The Documentary
We’re delighted to share the short documentary which was filmed for Lifehack Labs 2014.
Learn about the young leaders from around Aotearoa who took part, what happened throughout the Lab, and get a peek behind the scenes with the Lifehack …
Read MoreHave your say on the Lifehack 2015 Public Survey!
We want your voice!
Lifehack is nothing without the amazing humans who come together offline (and online) to co-create tools and solutions to improve the wellbeing of young Kiwis. To that end, we need your input to help us make …
Read MoreWatch this space… Beast & YOMO are Living The Dream!
Good news! Our friends over at Live The Dream are cranking away through summer, supporting a bunch of awesome young Kiwis to build social enterprises!
The excellent news is that the Beast …
Read More50+ Free & Cheap Internet Tools for Designers, Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators & Startups
A list of services to help you be awesome.
Check out this list of online resources which can give you jumpstarts and shortcuts to gain quick momentum for your project or social venture.
Simple Website Tools:
WordPress – highly customisable…Read MoreA Week With Social Labs Revolution Author, Zaid Hassan
If you had the opportunity to spend a week with someone with 15 years of experience in your domain, what would you hope to learn?
Less than a month after we wrapped up Lifehack Labs (our most multi-layered initiative to …
Read MoreHacking Life in Wellington
THE CHALLENGE
Over the weekend we brought together a crack group of people who wanted to give their time and energy to 3 awesome youth causes.
On Friday night we heard from our project hosts about their hopes for the …
Read MoreSuggest a cause for the Wellington Lifehack weekend
Following a bunch of Lifehack weekends around the country earlier this year, we’ve come to the conclusion it was about time for a turbo-charged weekend on our home turf in Wellington. Over the weekend of 8 & 9 November, we …
Read MoreHow Lifehack Assesses Impact
Lifehack has been learning from the rapidly advancing disciplines of business, design, wellbeing, social innovation and technology and working out how we can apply this to complex problems – specifically youth wellbeing and mental health.
One of the those people …
Read More#LifehackLabs – Introducing the Projects & Ventures!
Lifehack Labs was our deepest program to date to discover how we might enable bright Kiwi minds to improve the wellbeing of other young Kiwis through technology.
It took the shape of a 5 week social innovation bootcamp which brought …
Read MoreMeet The Author of ‘Social Labs Revolution’!
Do you want to meet the Author of a book which helped inspire Lifehack Labs?
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Back in February, we were deep in research mode – trying to make sense …
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