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, …
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 …
Updates to the Lifehack privacy policy
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
Flourishing Fellowship Applications Are Now Open!
Do you want to improve the lives of rangatahi in Aotearoa?
Our Flourishing Fellowship is now accepting applications!
Flourishing Fellows is a 3 month programme for 20 individuals from all backgrounds who want to find their identity in the work …
Youth Week is coming & we’re planning awesomeness!
We’re pretty excited that Youth Week is almost upon us, and that this year’s theme is ‘We are the future / Kō tātau te ao o āpōpō’.
Here’s the video introducing this year’s action:
How might we give young
…Launching the Flourishing Fellowship 2015
At the start of April we asked the question: ‘How might we best support the people around Aotearoa who are championing Wellbeing and Flourishing thinking & projects?’
You can read the first blog here.
To further this, over the last …
Lifehack’s Focus Areas in 2015
Over the course of 2014, Lifehack gained new ground and understanding about the relationship of Wellbeing and Mental Health, and specifically how working proactively on wellbeing, we have the potential to make a difference to people who are struggling with …
Press Release: Lifehack & Massey University Collaborate For Everyday Wellbeing
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Lifehack and Massey University collaborate for Everyday Wellbeing
Improving everyday wellbeing for young Kiwis through social entrepreneurship will be one of the focuses of an exciting new Design Challenge project for visual communication design students attending Massey …
