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Flourishing 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 of wellbeing, center in on their purpose, develop themselves and make an impact in their community…
Youth 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 people of Aotearoa the agency to be the future? We’ve been mulling over this concept, ever…
Young 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 be able to share it: we’re welcoming Young Innovators Collective (YIC) into the Lifehack whānau!…
Launching 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 few months we’ve been co-designing our Flourishing Fellowship programme. We’ve been working with the first people…
Collaborative 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 in youth wellbeing to exchange ideas, research, learnings and make connections. One of the main…
Lifehack’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 mental health challenges (such as anxiety & depression), whilst also building the resilience of a generation. You can read more about this…
Welcoming 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 through the hallway that I’d just come to know over the…
What 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 specifically about what the support structure might be to link up, foster collaboration, and nurture projects which…
Welcoming Dayna Carter to the Lifehack team
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. – Mother Teresa My working background has an array of colours as I’ve dipped my toes in many areas, from hospitality, retail, the education and mental health sector, management, project and event coordination,…
Press Release: Lifehack & Massey University Collaborate For Everyday Wellbeing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 University’s School of Design in Wellington this year. Lifehack, New Zealand’s youth wellbeing social innovation…
The 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 the Wellbeing & Flourishing space. One of our key learnings is that you can’t have innovative…
Design 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 about how they could take their Exploration phase of their final year projects to the next level.…
Venture 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 calls, google hangouts, asking provocative questions on the team’s Slack, taking teams through our Venture Scorecard or…
Developing 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 some of the Lifehack Projects through deep programs like Lifehack Labs, but we’re also seeing existing projects…
e-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 providers. Whilst we are still in the relatively early days of our work to catalyse…
