Lifehack Blog
Meet Kiran Patel: GEW 2015
We asked Kiran Patel to write something up for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015. Kiran is a part of the Lifehack Venture Support programme and founded Young Innovator’s Collective in Auckland, providing a place, space and platform for young people to have their voice heard. There is currently an issue, one that needs our serious attention.…
Te Kōanga is GO!
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our new programme Te Kōanga! Te Kōanga is a programme inspired by the energy of spring, new shoots of life, and that nervous excitement of possibility. We named it after te reo Māori word for Spring. What’s Te Kōanga All About? This programme is a prototyping space – a 4…
Learnings from YOMO, and a farewell
Learnings from YOMO Lifehack venture, YOMO, has decided to move on. Alex and Michael are making the decision to close shop for the foreseeable future to pursue other opportunities. Before they leave we wanted to gather some of their key learnings in developing a wellbeing-centric business in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Here’s a few words…
Nelson Tasman weekend event Final Project
Lifehack has finalised the third and final project for this weekend, we’re happy to announce that Nelson’s Live Arts will be joining us for the two and a half days this weekend. Here’s a bit more info about Nelson Arts: We want to make a difference in young people’s lives, theatre and the arts…
Flourishing Fellowship 2015 Doco
A group of community champions embarked on Lifehack’s Flourishing Fellowship from across Aotearoa, New Zealand. The programme was designed to up-skill participants in wellbeing thinking and entrepreneurial tools for social impact, with a focus on improving the lives of young people in Aotearoa. Hear from the team and the participants about their three-month journey on…
Only 4 Days until Nelson gets Lifehacked!
We are fortunate to be working alongside two projects that address some serious social issues that impact youth wellbeing. We’re also looking for anyone, of any age to come to this event as a participant. Ten reasons to come to a Lifehack weekend event: Meet other good humans in your community who are the type…
What happened at the IAYMH conference in Montreal?
See our workshop post over here! For the last couple of days we spent our time amongst young people and academics, joining together for the purpose of discussing, analysing, and sharing research about mental health. Individuals hailed to Montreal, Canada from countries as far afield as Australia and Ireland to attend the conference…
Pre-conference workshop with Young & Well and our youth co-convenors
Six of us sat around a white table in an apartment in Downtown Montreal. Half of us under 25, this team we were forming were meeting in person for the first time only 24 hours before running a full-day workshop together. Aiden and Michelle are from Australia and have both been working in the Young…
Lifehack in Toronto
The Lifehack team has been on the road for nearly two weeks, meeting with the brightest minds in the space of public social innovation & impact en route to a conference in Montreal. After a couple of days in San Francisco and New York, we headed to Toronto, Canada. Across the trip, we have been…
Lifehack loose in New York
Can you imagine, our team loose in New York City en route to Montreal? That was our reality last week in the lead up to the global conference for IAYMH (see original post here). My name is Chelsea, I’ve been co-leading Lifehack for the past two years but I haven’t been very vocal on this…
IAYMH Trip to Canada / USA
A few months ago we received an email inviting Lifehack to co-facilitate a workshop at a conference together with our friends at Young & Well Co-operative Research Centre in Australia and two young community leaders. The sender? The International Association of Youth Mental Health. The conference location? Montréal, Canada. We delightfully decided to…
100 Resilient Cities : #ResilientWGTN
“Urban Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.” – ‘What is Urban Resilience’ – 100 Resilient Cities Today we attended the launch event for ‘Resilient Wellington’ as part of the Rockefeller…
Lifehack Nelson/Tasman: Welcoming Projects & Participants
Lifehack is coming to the Nelson Tasman region! We’re excited to announce our Lifehack weekend coming up in November, running from Friday the 6th to Sunday the 8th. Lifehack weekends are a great way for the community to get involved in the different wellbeing projects that surround them, but to make it happen…
The Startup Genome Project 2.0
The DNA of startups across the world is constantly being mapped and debated, we recently got a message from Zora Lopez who kindly linked us up with The Startup Genome Project 2.0 – an effort to better understand what and how projects thrive in different environments. We’re interested in what the implications are for socially-minded…
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Fresh Minds & Approach
image courtesy of Mark Bradford After a two week mid-semester break, the students from Massey’s School of Design are back to work on their Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge! We were asked by the Massey Tutors to come in and do a quick fire lecture to ground the students back into the next 6 weeks of…
