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Seed by Seed: Facilitation training at Massey Wellington
Finding good training around facilitation is hard to come by, that’s why when the Lifehack crew saw that Seed by Seed in collaboration with the good people at the Massey University Centre for Public Health Research we knew it would be good!The training was attended by people from across the country, with a mixture of…
Flourshing Fellowship: Hui Tuarua
Checking in to the mahi Many different ideas came out of our second Hui, the fellows had been in a position where they can really start to delve deeper into the work, the understanding and the methods that they had learned so far. The main focus of Hui Tuarua was to convert from a theoretical…
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Empathy
Last week we wrote about the exciting turbulence that was created at the turning point in the design challenge, where students were able to continue with the design brief they’d been shaping up for five weeks, or change and seek a new path. As I was sitting and watching the ebb and flow of the waters of…
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge: All Change?
Week 5 was secretly the point I was most excited about at the Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge with Massey University. It was the time where the tutors were testing a hypothesis – ‘can we enhance our students’ collaborative practice by exposing them to the design briefs of their peers?’. It is a fascinating opportunity to…
Lower Hutt: A Review
Last weekend, the Lifehack community put on an event in Lower Hutt to support three wonderful local wellbeing projects. Over 50 people together across all ages came to volunteer their skills in communications, web development, graphic design, strategic thinking, fundraising and more, hailing to the event venue The Dowse from Palmerston North, Wellington’s south…
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Refining The Brief
The pace is ramping up over at the Everyday Wellbeing paper we’re working on with Massey University’s School of Design! We’re almost at the stage where the students’ research is being refined down in groups into a brief which will be presented to all of their peers from across the School. After 4 weeks of understanding…
Top 10 Design Research Resources
Increasingly Lifehack is supporting and empowering people around New Zealand to start well and build their capacity when it comes to designing, developing and improving youth wellbeing projects. Often we get asked for resources, best practice guides and tools for the early days of projects – a phase we call “Discovery”. This is a phase where you’re really trying…
Crowdsourcing A Youth Wellbeing Map For Aotearoa
The Problem: We’re often asked what kinds of projects are happening in the youth wellbeing space in Aotearoa New Zealand. Often we reel off a number of the projects we’ve worked with, ones we know about through our networks, and ones we’ve found when we research online. People have to google the name, and often…
Updates to the Lifehack privacy policy
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How We Use Experiments To Drive Insight
We get a lot of questions about how we do what we do. Moving at pace but keeping Lifehack focused on learning is a skill we’ve been honing for over 2 years, and the practice of running Experiments is at the core of this. We wrote up a full explanation of why we use an Experiment process, what…
Announcing The Lower Hutt Weekend Projects
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be working with three awesome local community initiatives at the upcoming Lower Hutt weekend. Whether you’re into cycling, local food production, reciprocity systems, or whānau activities, there’s something for everyone. These brave individuals and teams are making their projects available to be worked on over the weekend, by the community (that’s all…
Wellbeing in Aotearoa : Te Whare Tapa Whā
Increasingly there is a recognition around the world that Wellbeing is a holistic concept. Whilst there’s some excellent resources such as 5 Ways To Wellbeing and PERMA, here at Lifehack we feel like we need to acknowledge what Wellbeing means in Aotearoa. As we’ve travelled around the country, time and again we’ve found that the model that…
Designing For Everyday Wellbeing – Week 3 – Storytelling & Synthesis
Week 3 took flight with the themes “Inspirational Designing”, “Brainstorming & Storytelling” & “Concept Synthesis”. The students got the opportunity to hear about photography in design, before returning to the development of their 8 page visual research package. Tutors helped students understand the role of storyboarding in further developing these briefs – simple sketches to…
How To Use A Business Model Canvas When Your User Isn’t Your Customer
Most of the time in the Youth Wellbeing space, the people using an intervention AREN’T the people who pay for the service. Example: Young people going to a youth club often pay nothing to attend – the costs are covered by a community group or local council as they see the value in giving young…
Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 2
Week 2 of the Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge with Massey University rolled around, and it was a fascinating array of dialogue and visuals. As Week 1 ended, the students were asked to spend their independent study hours working to make sense of the first week’s crash course in Wellbeing. They were asked to find a general area they…
