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Venture Support with GoFlo on the Wild West Coast

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We’ve been hard at work supporting the Ventures which emerged from Lifehack Labs 2014 which are focused on supporting young Kiwis to live better lives.

Most of our support is remote – whether it’s in the form of coaching phone …

10 Things You Need To Know About Lifehack in 2015

10 Things You Need To Know About Lifehack 2015

Phew! What a powerful start to the year. 2014 ended at a sprint, and after a Summer break, 2015 has resumed the same energy. We’d love you to get involved with Lifehack in 2015, and thanks to your input into …

Lifehack Public Survey Results – Crowdsourcing Lifehack’s Direction In 2015

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At the start of the year we began the process of crowdsourcing our direction for 2015, building on all of the work of 2014.

For several weeks we had some amazing responses from you all through our public survey, as …

Lifehack Labs 2014 – The Documentary

Lifehack Labs 2014 The Documentary

We’re delighted to share the short documentary which was filmed for Lifehack Labs 2014.

Learn about the young leaders from around Aotearoa who took part, what happened throughout the Lab, and get a peek behind the scenes with the Lifehack …

Have your say on the Lifehack 2015 Public Survey!

Lifehack Public Survey 2015

We want your voice!

Lifehack is nothing without the amazing humans who come together offline (and online) to co-create tools and solutions to improve the wellbeing of young Kiwis. To that end, we need your input to help us make …

Hacking Life in Wellington

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THE CHALLENGE

Over the weekend we brought together a crack group of people who wanted to give their time and energy to 3 awesome youth causes.

On Friday night we heard from our project hosts about their hopes for the …

Suggest a cause for the Wellington Lifehack weekend

Lifehack Weekend in Wellington

Following a bunch of Lifehack weekends around the country earlier this year, we’ve come to the conclusion it was about time for a turbo-charged weekend on our home turf in Wellington. Over the weekend of 8 & 9 November, we …

How Lifehack Assesses Impact

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Lifehack has  been learning from the rapidly advancing disciplines of business, design, wellbeing, social innovation and technology and working out how we can apply this to complex problems – specifically youth wellbeing and mental health.

One of the those people …

#LifehackLabs – Introducing the Projects & Ventures!

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Lifehack Labs was our deepest program to date to discover how we might enable bright Kiwi minds to improve the wellbeing of other young Kiwis through technology.

It took the shape of a 5 week social innovation bootcamp which brought …

#LifehackLabs – Week 5 – Sprint to Springboard

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Week 5 of Lifehack Labs was all about teams building toward the future.

With the final event fast approaching, the Labs teams were again set loose to choose their own paths in the final week. Whether it was conducting user …

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 5

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With the labs coming to a close, we asked the participants to reflect over the last 5 weeks and share something they had gained during their time at #lifehacklabs.

#LifehackLabs – Week 4 – How, Who, WHY?

This week we asked our Labs Co ordinator Charlotte to run us through the goings on of week 4.

It’s easy to forget while immersed in this process, that Lifehack Labs is just a tiny snapshot in time. Who would …

#LifehackLabs – Week 3 – Building Ideas, Research and Prototypes

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Penny Hagen assists organisations to apply participatory and design-led approaches to the development of policy, organisational process, strategy and services. Penny specialises in co-design and social change projects and provides training and mentoring to design teams and organisations wanting to …

#LifehackLabs – Week 3 – Participants’ Perspective: Hip Hop Styles!

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This week we mixed it up a bit, crowdsourcing the week’s happenings from Gemma, Jade, Caroline, John, Michael, Steven and Katie which were then free-styled by Lifehack Labs’ resident rapper Aaron. Have a listen here.

First day ate cake,

Celebrate …

#LifehackLabs – Week 2 – Tool up, Team up

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We asked our #lifehacklabs Co- Lead Chelsea Robinson to give us a run down on what happened in week 2.

 

If week one was about downloading information and new ideas and new thinking around wellbeing and technology, week two …

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 2

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The Tale of Week Two in the Kingdom of Lifehack Labs, brought to you by Jade and Jess.

Once upon a time (or, to be exact, Monday, 25 August), in the not-so-faraway land of Lifehack HQ, our family of 20 …

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 1

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Every week, we will bring a little of the Lifehack Labs experience to the outside world from the view of the participants.

This week, Ruth, Katie and Gemma catch you up on what happened in a (very long) first week. …

Lifehack Labs Begins…

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Today we’re launching Lifehack Labs into the world.

We’re welcoming twenty of the brightest young people from around the country join us in Wellington today to begin Lifehack Labs. It’ll be five weeks of intensive learning, research, mentoring, coaching and …

LIFEHACK Labs Vs. Accelerators & Incubators

Many young Kiwis have told us that they want the opportunity to take action to improve wellbeing for friends & whanau.

Over 75% of the people we spoke to said they would make space in their life if they were …

#LifehackSouthland was epic!

Southland has officially been Lifehacked!

We’re still somewhere in the clouds after a weekend down in Invercargill working with the good people of Southland who really brought the good when it came to the first Lifehack Weekend in the deep …