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Part II – The Lifehacker Co-Founder Journey
This blog follows hot on the heels of The Lifehacker Co-Founder Journey – Part I in which we caught up with Footsteps from Dunedin and talked about the importance of support and up-skilling to turn ideas into actual working tech tools. For this blog, we caught up with Otago Entrepreneurship student, Emily Sutton, who was…
The Lifehacker Co-Founder Journey – Part I
It’s been an industrious winter for the LIFEHACK team, though you may not have heard too much of what we’ve been up to. As part of our vision for LIFEHACK, we needed to take the awesome outcomes from the events around the country and help those teams to make their ideas a reality. You may’ve…
Mental Health Awareness Week – Design thinking helping us to connect
This past week was Mental Health Awareness week across Aotearoa & the theme was “connect”. From reading & experience, it seems clear that feeling cohesion with others, acceptance, inclusion & the ability to relate to others keeps our esteem high and our sense of worth fuller. Mental Health Awareness week has been hosting conversations online…
Exciting new phase of Lifehack
Since Silvia & Alanna visited the teams in July, the Lifehack governance group has been working hard in the background to find a team to take the project forward over the coming years. We recognised that the right mix of skills and personalities was needed to take Lifehack to the next level, provide a great…
Update from Tom in Dunedin
One of my big goals as the Dunedin Regional Co-Ordinator is to support any and all teams who are passionate about the LIFEHACK goals of creating innovative tools to help young people suffering from mental illness. With that in mind on a recent Thursday we welcomed back all of the teams to catch up on…
Lifehack is hiring!
Want to work with digital innovation and social enterprise, and make a difference for young NZers? The Lifehack Governance Group are looking to form the best team possible to achieve improved wellbeing for young NZers. We are now accepting applications for two roles: The Lifehack Coach The Lifehack Community Builder Click the links above to find…
Silvia’s Lifehack Journey So Far
Lifehack has been a great discovery journey for me so far and my trip to Christchurch and meeting Lifehackers in Wellington has been a highlight! In Christchurch I met up with teams – but was also able to connect with some great organisations who are keen to get more involved in phase two. I continue…
Touching Base in Auckland and Dunedin
I had an amazing trip to Auckland and Dunedin. I met up with members of each top 10 team in those cities, as well as the wider community of Lifehack supporters. Thanks to everyone who took the time to come say hello! Meeting everyone in person underlined for me how much enthusiasm, generosity, and excitement…
Hello, Nice To Meet You – We’re Coming to Visit!
There is much news from LIFEHACK HQ! By now you should have heard about some of the changes to the team, but the best news yet is that a couple of our newbies, Alanna & Silvia from the Enspiral Network are coming to a town near you… real soon. You see, we’ve now gathered the…
A FAREWELL, AND A WELCOME
We’re nearing the end of the first series of LIFEHACK. So, we’re making time to reflect on all of the amazing things that have happened so far, and how we can keep sharing, and growing all of the energy and momentum that you’ve all been part of. Right now the video proposals prepared by the…
It’s been awesome
What a year it’s been so far. LIFEHACK has been the most amazing ride, and I’m so proud of everything that’s come out of it. LIFEHACK has shown me that there are so many awesome people who all believe in supporting our young people. And, while it’s still early days, with phase two; judging of…
Top Idea Videos LIVE!
The time has come. After months and months of preparation, they’re finally ready – the 10 top ideas of LIFEHACK 2013. It is with great pleasure that we introduce these to you in no particular order. Judging begins today (Friday 31st May) and goes for two weeks by a panel of carefully selected peeps from…
Dunedin Wrap Up – saving the best ’til last!
Our final LIFEHACK Weekend for 2013 went down in Dunedin, and once again we were blown away by the ingenuity and talent on display. The weekend kicked off at The Hunter Center, located at The University of Otago’s health sciences department. It was perfect environment as we had large open spaces as well as many…
LIFEHACKING in Christchurch!
Wow, what a weekend! Here in Christchurch, we’ve turned community spirit into an art form, and this was evident during our LIFEHACK Weekend. Everyone pitched in to make sure the event was a memorable one. Olivia and I knew we might have a few issues trying to secure a venue in Christchurch, and with good…
The Creative Capital has been lifehacked!
Five more awesome ideas pitched @lifehackhq. If this is an example of NZs problem solving potential we need more events like this! — chris clay(@chrisclaynz) April 14, 2013 This tweet from one of our judges, Chris Clay, couldn’t really sum up the weekend any better. Massey’s College of Creative Arts was filled with the eager…
