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#LifehackLabs – Week 5 – Sprint to Springboard

Photo of the Lifehack Labs 2014 Core Crew

Week 5 of Lifehack Labs was all about teams building toward the future.

With the final event fast approaching, the Labs teams were again set loose to choose their own paths in the final week. Whether it was conducting user …

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 5

With the labs coming to a close, we asked the participants to reflect over the last 5 weeks and share something they had gained during their time at #lifehacklabs.

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#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 4 – Piles of Post It Notes!

This week the participants were super busy. Even more super busy than the weeks before. As a tribute to this busy-ness, this week’s blogpost is an attempt to document just some of the thoughts, questions , processes and progress the …

#LifehackLabs – Week 4 – How, Who, WHY?

This week we asked our Labs Co ordinator Charlotte to run us through the goings on of week 4.

It’s easy to forget while immersed in this process, that Lifehack Labs is just a tiny snapshot in time. Who would …

#LifehackLabs – Week 3 – Building Ideas, Research and Prototypes

Penny Hagen assists organisations to apply participatory and design-led approaches to the development of policy, organisational process, strategy and services. Penny specialises in co-design and social change projects and provides training and mentoring to design teams and organisations wanting to …

#LifehackLabs – Week 3 – Participants’ Perspective: Hip Hop Styles!

This week we mixed it up a bit, crowdsourcing the week’s happenings from Gemma, Jade, Caroline, John, Michael, Steven and Katie which were then free-styled by Lifehack Labs’ resident rapper Aaron. Have a listen here.

First day ate cake,

Celebrate …

#LifehackLabs – Week 2 – Tool up, Team up

We asked our #lifehacklabs Co- Lead Chelsea Robinson to give us a run down on what happened in week 2.

If week one was about downloading information and new ideas and new thinking around wellbeing and technology, week two …

Week 2 at #Lifehack Labs: The Feedback Loop between Technology and Culture

Weeks out from #Lifehack Labs, I pondered over the type of content that I wanted participants to be clued up on. Given our remit, it was clear that technology had to be part of that learning journey. Trying to cover …

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 2

The Tale of Week Two in the Kingdom of Lifehack Labs, brought to you by Jade and Jess.

Once upon a time (or, to be exact, Monday, 25 August), in the not-so-faraway land of Lifehack HQ, our family of 20 …

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 1

Every week, we will bring a little of the Lifehack Labs experience to the outside world from the view of the participants.

This week, Ruth, Katie and Gemma catch you up on what happened in a (very long) first week. …

#LifehackLabs – Week 1 – Connection, Courage & Content

Last week we got off to a flying start in Week 1 of the inaugural Lifehack Labs with 20 young people from around Aotearoa New Zealand converging on Wellington.

We’ll be writing a blog post each week to keep you …

Lifehack Labs Begins…

Today we’re launching Lifehack Labs into the world.

We’re welcoming twenty of the brightest young people from around the country join us in Wellington today to begin Lifehack Labs. It’ll be five weeks of intensive learning, research, mentoring, coaching and …

Northland – So many great initiatives in the Far North

When researching potential projects for our recent Northland event, I was blown away by the suggestions that came from across Te Tai Tokerau.

From suicide prevention to problem gambling – projects across the entire spectrum were brought to our …

Outside the Square of Lifehack HQ

Born into the Chinese third generation in New Zealand, I chose my own career path. As a Wellingtonian with a keen interest in business and start-ups, I decided to hone in on marketing and entrepreneurship at Massey University. The business …

LIFEHACK Northland – Fun in the Far North!

A couple of weekends ago we had our first experience running a residential hui – all of a sudden we spend not just two very intense days with the Lifehack participants, but evenings and nights as well. Paired with a …

New Zealand Well-Being 2.0

This is a guest blog by Carsten Grimm, mental health promoter.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast …

Why LIFEHACK focuses on ‘Improving Youth Wellbeing through Technology’

Recently we launched LIFEHACK Labs – Aotearoa New Zealand’s first social innovation lab. It’s focus through the 5 week experience is to kickstart impact projects to improve youth wellbeing through technology.

Why Youth Wellbeing?

As many of you will know, …

LIFEHACK Labs Vs. Accelerators & Incubators

Many young Kiwis have told us that they want the opportunity to take action to improve wellbeing for friends & whanau.

Over 75% of the people we spoke to said they would make space in their life if they were …

#LifehackSouthland was epic!

Southland has officially been Lifehacked!

We’re still somewhere in the clouds after a weekend down in Invercargill working with the good people of Southland who really brought the good when it came to the first Lifehack Weekend in the deep …