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#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.
#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 participants have made (on paper alone) thus far. In other news, this happened: (A big thank…
#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 believe it’s been only a month since first asking: “Who do you want to be working…
#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 achieve greater impact through the adoption of participatory and co-design approaches. Penny recently joined the Lifehack Governance…
#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 the birth date Of Nate. No workshops, just freedom A week ahead Lets get proceeding. Straight to…
#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 was about tooling up: from a process perspective it was a time of learning new approaches, learning…
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 all things technology is pretty impossible. Aside from participants’ varied knowledge of the matter, the…
#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 young social innovators embarked on our second week of Lifehack Labs. The second stage of our quest began with Princess…
#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. We started with a stay at Tapu Te Ranga marae in Island Bay, and then moved into…
#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 up to date with what the Labs cohort has been up to, but you can also follow along and engage…
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 prototyping of technology projects, but really it is just the start of the journey for…
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 attention. And whilst they may point out some of the troubles that the Northland people…
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 degree that I am working towards will help ensure a strong foundation for myself which…
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 couple of intense workout sessions (Zumba and BoxFit), along with children running amidst the people…
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 and endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We need a more sophisticated conversation about…
