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Youthline Manukau & Sovereign mahi: tuatahi – Christina Leef
Kia ora tatou, He uri tenei nō Te Rarawa me Kuki Airani, Ko Christina Leef ahau. In November 2015 I received a call from Gina about a partnership between Youthline, Sovereign and Lifehack. Youthline Manukau needed to increase the amount of volunteers in their branch and Sovereign Insurance was supporting them to look at ways that…
We’re coming to Christchurch!
We’re off to Christchurch this week! Last year, Lifehack was invited to do a poster presentation at the Collaborative Trust Hui in Christchurch, this year we’re back presenting a workshop around the conference topic: ‘More than words – Extending Skills for Youth Development and Wellbeing’ We won’t give too much away, but our workshop…
Lifehack Community Retreat – Lucy Tyndall
Reconnect – Recharge – Renew There is much to be said for getting in a car full of strangers and driving to Ōtaki. You start conversations with people you never expected to, or wouldn’t normally get the chance to meet. You hear stories you never thought you would hear, and get to know…
Facila-what? Lifehack Community Retreat
FACILITATION TIPS AND TRICKS FROM SILVIA ZUUR, FACILITATION SUPERSTAR The word facilitation comes from the French word facile, which means to make easy. It’s all about making it easy for a group of people to talk or learn together. But the act of facilitating is anything but easy. We all know how weird things can…
Youthline, Sovereign, and Lifehack: Youthline Manukau
We’re immensely proud to announce that we’ve had the privilege to work with Youthline’s Manukau team, and Sovereign last week. The Lifehack team travelled up to Auckland and spent Thursday and Friday at the Manukau centre working with amazing humans from both organisations to run a Lifehack Weekend-styled event. We worked together to…
Sam Rye: 3 Questions I still have about Social Labs (Throwback to 2016)
Social Labs, you’ve probably heard us talk about them, you might have been part of one and you might also have hosted one. We’ve dug out this Medium post by the our tuakana (and ex co-lead) Sam Rye from back in early 2016. In the article Sam explores some key tenets of Social Labs, and explores…
We have moved to Enspiral Dev Academy
This week, Lifehack moved in with Enspiral Dev Acadamy — a thriving hub of tech-related learning on Upper Cuba Street. Like us, they’re also part of the Enspiral family and share a similar tikanga around collaboration, learning, and looking after self and others. The other similarity is that they’re also in the people-building industry: Whilst…
Report: Codesigning programmes using the Fellowship as an example
Lifehack has always existed at the intersection of different worlds: we spend our time where the mental health and wellbeing world crosses into that of technology; where the world of tech meets social entrepreneurship; where the world of design crosses with world of business; where entrepreneurship and community meet. It’s a unique place that enables us to…
Lifehack’s Impact story — out now
(Illustration by Miranda Lees) For the past few months we’ve been beavering away trying so sum up the learnings and impact from our mahi from the last couple of years. Two years ago, we started running our first experiments: the online course, Lifehack Weekends, Lifehack Labs and a range of others in 2014. 2015 saw us…
Lifehack Community Retreat: Better with friends
Kia ora Lifehack whānau. It’s four weeks out from the Lifehack Community Retreat of 4-6 March. We’re starting to get more than a little bit excited. Don’t have a ticket yet? Grab yours here. Invite your friends! You know that friend whose ears always perk up when you mention Lifehack? Well, the Retreat isn’t…
Lifehack Community Retreat programme feedback
Thank you for your ideas We’d like to give a huge shout-out to everybody who filled out our survey about the Lifehack Community Retreat. We believe co-design is a crucial part of successful programmes for youth wellbeing and mental health. We try to bring co-design principles and practice into our own mahi whenever possible. With…
Bravery & Authenticity in a Digital World /w Brené Brown
What do you do with the 3am voice in your head, that tells you of your fears, that you’re not good enough, that something is wrong with you? Brené brown talks to Chase Jarvis about Daring Greatly, and Rising Strong – laying down the values that allow people to do great things. We found this…
Lifehack Community Hui happening 2016
Calling all great humans… Fill out our 5 minute survey before 10 January to tell us what our Lifehack Community Hui for March 2016 should involve! The Lifehack Community Hui is about building and strengthening the Lifehack community. Sounds nice doesn’t it—but what’s it all about? Who’s it for? Can I afford it? We have…
Lifehack Nelson: Through the eyes of participants
Lifehack Nelson After leaving Richmond, Nelson, we were at a loss to describe the amazing people we;’d encountered and had the privilege to work with. We asked one of the participants to provide a few words that sum up the experience for them, read more below to get a feel for what a Lifehack…
mHealth & Future tech symposium
The future of mHealth On the 22nd + 23rd of October Toni and Simon attended the mHealth symposium in Auckland, hosted by the University of Auckland. The way we access health-related services is changing throughout the world and New Zealand is no exception to this; we’re getting more and more access to medical…
