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Sovereign’s Clark Todd: Building on trust and potential
The following is a guest post by Clark Todd, Head of Corporate Responsibility at Sovereign Insurance. A corporate funded social innovation project can help to make a positive change to a community or not for profits that need support. It can also provide learnings that make a big difference to how companies tackle challenges within…
Place-based initiatives: Etsy.org’s Hudson Valley programme
Photo via Etsy.org We at Lifehack are currently thinking about the relevance about place-based programmes (we may well be scheming we can talk about soon). I was excited to catch up with Grace Lodge from Etsy.org this morning. She currently coordinates a local entrepreneurship programme in the Hudson Valley in upstate NY, about two to three…
Reflections on the Design for Social Innovation Symposium
In mid-July, I spent two days at the Design For Social Innovation symposium with the Lifehack team. As a gathering of practitioners in public social innovation, a lot of the time was spent looking at existing projects and their challenges, wins and lessons. A considerable amount of time was spent on building whanaungatanga amongst the symposium participants to…
PARTICIPANT’S REFLECTION ON THE FELLOWSHIP SO FAR: CAROLYN TAUEKI-STOTT
Carolyn Taueki-Stott – Flourishing Fellow 2016 I didn’t have any idea what to expect walking in to the Yurt on the first day. Although it was a beautiful, clear Wellington afternoon, there was a slight chill in the air…the sort of chill you feel inside when you are about to walk into the unknown. I had similar emotions…
Social Enterprise Auckland Launch
A hundred people with a vested interested in the development of Auckland’s social enterprise scene came together at the Auckland University’s Business School to launch Social Enterprise Auckland. SEA describes itself as: a collaborative group of social enterprises and their supporters working for sustainable social change in Auckland. A hub for inspiration, information and connection,…
Mapping our network
Toni, Dayna and myself took a bit of time last week to map out the Lifehack network and universe. Collaboration is baked into what we do—but when we put it on paper (or screen) it became even more obvious. Seeing some of the Lifehack-affiliated initiatives work together makes my heart sing! Only last weekend, Jamie and…
Ngā Uri Ō at Design for Social Innovation Symposium 2016
On the 13th of July Lifehack delivered three 10-minute mini workshops at the Design for Social Innovation Symposium hosted at Massey University to share a tool we’re developing called Ngā Uri Ō. It’s a prototype concept to capture the importance of whanaungatanga and allowing space for this when working with others. It was the first…
Ngā Uri Ō – Descendants of
The Journey of Ngā Uri Ō (photos of Ngā Uri Ō at the Sovereign and Youthline workshop March 2016) Earlier in the year Lifehack gathered in Manukau along with Sovereign and Youthline where we facilitated 1.5 days of looking at how the group could create a buzz around Youthline Manukau, how we could encourage volunteers…
Designing for Wellbeing: Reflecting on unexpected insights
by Sam Rye, former co-lead at Lifehack What would happen if we took 290 students from a third year design paper, and focused the brief on Everyday Wellbeing? In 2015 I was part of the Lifehack crew which teamed up with Massey University’s School of Design, to do something a bit different for their students. We’ve…
The Shifterhood is coming back to town
Photo by Natalie Proctor / Simon Jarvis The Lifehack team has had the delight of following Fran ‘A-MAZING’ McEwen since she first joined us for last year’s Fellowship. Shortly after the Fellowship, Lifehack ran a programme called Te Kōanga, which stands for new beginnings or spring in te reo. For Te Kōanga, she brought along her team mates Katie…
Participant’s Reflection on the Fellowship so far: George Gribbin
A couple of weeks ago we hosted the first hui of this year’s Flourishing Fellowship. We spent five days at Waihōanga Centre for Well-being getting to know each other, ourselves and increasing our understanding of the opportunities and barriers when it comes to youth wellbeing. Rather than the team reflecting on this initial experience, we’ve…
A year and a bit in Lifehack — Simon
A year with Lifehack Something of a review of time From where it began April 2015 feels like a long time ago, especially given how this journey has been so full and emergent. I often look back at how things have progressed and wonder how I have managed to complete as much as I…
Rediscovering roots: Christina Leef on weaving our stories
He uri tēnei ō Te Rarawa Ko Panguru tōku māunga Ko Hokianga tōku moana Ko Waihou tōku awa Ko Nuku Tawhiti tōku waka Ko Waipuna tōku marae He uri anō tenei o kuki Airani Nō te moutere ō Aitutaki. Ko Tao Tu Te papa kainga Ko Christina Leef ahau Christina currently works…
Michael Smith: At the intersection: reflections from three years at the intersection
Michael was a participant on our Lifehack Labs programme in 2014. Below is a story captured about his journey along his own path of wellbeing across the last three years. Michael had spent most of his life cruising through university and as a web developer. But then he joined Lifehack Labs in 2014 and…
Introducing a sixth capital: Wellbeing
Over the past two years Lifehack has been exploring and experimenting with the concept of ‘capitals’ borrowed from Zaid Hassan over at Social Labs. Since the early days we’ve been using the concept of five capitals to assess if and where Lifehack makes a difference (more below). Lifehack works with people who are alongside young…
