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The Flourishing Fellowship Begins
We kicked off the Flourishing Fellowship on a beautiful Wednesday morning with the arrival of 22 participants from around Aotearoa New Zealand. And sheesh, are these people awesome. With ages spanning generation X and generation Y, we had a diverse range of people; students and professionals, community, health and public sector workers, techy and non-techy people,…
Supporting Ventures To Flourish
Ahead of Lifehack Labs last year, we caught up for coffee with various people we hoped would join us as supporters, mentors and provocateurs – as well as individuals who would provide us with a critical view on the way we were running the programme. We sought their input when it came to our theory…
Lifehack Weekend Announced for Lower Hutt : Call for Projects & Participants
We’re stoked to announce that we’ll be hosting a Lifehack Weekend in Lower Hutt! Join us for a weekend of collaboration, helping community projects and meeting like-minded people keen to improve youth wellbeing in Aotearoa. Details: Kick-off – Friday 7th August 5pm Saturday 9.30-5pm Sunday 11am-4pm Venue : The Dowse Art Gallery, 45 Laings Rd,…
What Is The Role Of Technology In Youth Wellbeing?
In the early days of Lifehack, we were often asked how many mobile apps we’d built. Apps that would ‘solve’ youth mental health issues… pieces of technology that would improve the wellbeing of all young people in this country – as if somehow technology itself, or one or two apps would work for everyone. Since…
Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 1
This week we launched the initiative we’ve been working on for several months now – a design challenge with Massey University’s School of Design, focused on Everyday Wellbeing. The design challenge fits into one semester, and is a double paper for 290 third year students studying Design, across Visual Communication, Fashion, Photography & Industrial Design. We’re going…
Everyday Wellbeing – Design Challenge Overview
How might we unleash Aotearoa New Zealand’s young design talent on Everyday Wellbeing? Lifehack and Massey University are kicking off a Design Challenge together in July 2015, focused on Everyday Wellbeing. See the original announcement here, and links to all the posts about the challenge here. To give you an idea about what the Design…
Wellbeing Needs More Than Just Psychologists
Wellbeing is not just the domain of Psychologists This week we kick off our Design Challenge with Massey University’s College of Creative Arts. Whilst this seemed like an exciting next step for us at Lifehack, we thought it would be good to explain why we’re working with 160 visual communication students. In short, Lifehack’s work goes well beyond working…
Civic Engagement & Wellbeing
What kind of relationship do young people in Aotearoa New Zealand have with their country, and what does that translate to when we talk about what it means to be a citizen? MYD has approached Lifehack with these questions, and asking if we can shed some light on what it means to contribute to our…
Youth Law : A Case Study on Youth Engagement & Participatory Design
Recently we were approached by a small team who had big plans – make access to Youth Law much more simple, so that when young people interact with the legal system they are informed, get a fair go, and are able to navigate the challenges they may face in life. There’s significant research linking mental…
Lifehack Māori Design Day
With Lifehack’s mahi we want to pay respect, represent, engrain different cultural values in our work. To explore what it means for our design to be “of this place” around Aotearoa New Zealand, we brought together some local minds in a Maori Design Day Hui. A good place to begin is at the end…
Labs Chat – Child & Youth Mental Health in Canada
We’re constantly scanning the international frontiers to see what emerges around the world that we can learn from, build on, and generally improve our work to see 100% of young Kiwis flourishing by 2050. As an example, a short while back we shared a couple of ground breaking reports from the UK about developing social…
A Prototyping Mindset in Practice : Case Study on YOMO
For the best part of 2 years now, Lifehack has been experimenting with using Design processes to empower people to create new wellbeing interventions. Sometimes those Design processes are in the form of experiential weekends, sometimes they’re evening design sprint sessions, sometimes they sit inside longer programmes we run such as Lifehack Labs. One of the…
Flourishing Fellowship – Application Closing Date Extended : 27 May
Calling on good humans! This is your last chance to get your applications in for the Flourishing Fellowship programme as applications have been extended to Wednesday 27th May at 5pm! Yes that’s Wednesday! What is the Flourishing Fellowship you ask? It is a 3 month programme for 20 individuals from all backgrounds who want to find their…
Youth Week Is Here – Get Your Free Purpose Check In!
It’s time! We’re delighted to be online all day today – Monday 25th May – to help you check in with your goals, motivation and purpose. Want to read more about this? Check out our previous Youth Week blog post. We’re running this free service for you today alongside Young Innovators Collective. Get your FREE Purpose…
The Lifehack & YOMO Design Sprint
How might we highlight high impact areas of exploration for Mindfulness Technology? The work of social innovation and entrepreneurship isn’t often glamorous. It’s often a long period of fuzziness, confusion and hard work, followed by a breakthrough moment, followed by confusion and hard work. Sometimes you come out the other side. Whilst some people show…
