Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
Some emails just seem too good to be true. Often, they involve suggestions of no-strings-attached offers of monetary support. One such email landed in our inbox just a couple of weeks ago. We sent it around the team and I …
Read MoreHow to create an environment for LGBTIQ youth to flourish
Helping LGBTIQ youth to flourish
Earlier this year, a few awesome humans came together to discuss a pretty important topic – ‘How do we create an environment for LGBTIQ youth wellbeing?’ LGBTIQ stands for: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or …
Read MoreWorking with Thicket to evaluate the impact of 2016’s Flourishing Fellowship
We are excited to share our newly released report into the 2016 Lifehack Flourishing Fellowship evaluation by Thicket.
This is a co-written blog post by Lifehack & Thicket, providing some background and context to the report, and our learnings
…Read MoreEnabling Youth Wellbeing: Developing a Lifehack Impact Model
Over several months at the end of 2016 we developed a comprehensive impact model for Lifehack. It helps consolidate and share what we’ve learnt between 2013 and 2016 about how an innovation initiative like Lifehack creates and tracks impact. The …
Read MoreHow can you live and work bi-culturally in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Lifehack Flourishing Fellow, hustler and Glen Innes #GITilliDie mana wahine Christina Leef recently hosted a kōrero around living and working biculturally. A kōrero interspersed with lyrical junctures, the uncovering of assumptions and some brave patai (questions) that sparked some important …
Read MoreWhat we’ve learnt from running the Fellowship
Lifehack’s programme designs have been iterations from all the work we’ve done in the past. Not only do we spent time reflecting and implementing learnings into future programmes, we also take inspiration from practitioners around the globe. If you’re curious …
Read MoreFunding your participation in the Flourishing Fellowship
This post outlines how we’re supporting applicants to make the Fellowship financially accessible. We would love your feedback on this support, so please do email us at hello@lifehackhq.co if you have any thoughts.
Applications for the 2017 Flourishing Fellowship closed …
Read MoreFlourishing Fellowship applications extended until 8 March!
This is your last chance to apply for the 2017 Flourishing Fellowship! We have extended applications until next Wednesday 8 March at 5pm! (Yes that’s a Wednesday.)
Click here to go the application page!
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…Read MoreTop 5 reasons to support your people to attend the Flourishing Fellowship
Are you a manager or decision-maker trying to decide whether to “sign off” on somebody’s participation in this year’s Flourishing Fellowship? Well – this blog post is for you.
Paul McGregor was one of our original Flourishing Fellows. Now, as …
Read MoreFellowship applications are open—help us find great humans and be rewarded!
As you may have read on social media, applications for our flagship programme the Flourishing Fellowship are currently open. The three-month part-time programme combines professional and personal development for those in the youth workforce (this is the youth workforce in …
Read MoreThe Lifehack Community: successes, failures and futures
In the last three years Lifehack has directly engaged with over 1500 people in kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) programmes and events.
We’ve put lots of time and effort into creating safe spaces for people to connect and learn. Which …
Read MoreWorking with our young people: reflections on Oro from Mike Ryan, Director Community Services, Upper Hutt City Council
Mike Ryan, Director Community Services at Upper Hutt City Council has written this guest post on Oro, Lifehack’s most recent place-based collaboration based in Upper Hutt. In it Mike shares his reflections on the development and benefits of the programme, …
Read MoreOro: Final hui and programme celebration evening
Over the past two months the Lifehack team has been running a programme in Upper Hutt called Oro, which focuses on mobilising the local community around a series of local initiatives and igniting localised cross-sector collaboration. This blog post is …
Read MoreStraight from the horse’s mouth: Youth workers and their lessons on youth engagement
This is a guest post from Paul Thompson and Cat Gooding, who are youth workers at the Upper Hutt Community Youth Trust. During our Upper Hutt programme Oro, those two ran a great session on meaningfully youth engagement – as …
Read MoreCo-designing learning sessions
Earlier this year, Toni and Dayna from Lifehack had been working with a bunch of Lifehack community members to co-design a series of opportunities for people to upskill in a variety of tools that Lifehack has developed in partnership with …
Read MoreLifehack Weekend – Oro Upper Hutt
On 11 November 2016, around 15 people over the weekend came together to support the Oro whānau in their aspirations to develop existing and build new wellbeing initiatives that are co-designed with young people of Upper Hutt.
This weekend event …
Read MoreSix months on – Youthline and Sovereign
Earlier this year we set off on a project with Sovereign Insurance and Youthline Manukau. The idea was to augment the existing community partnership between the two organisations, while synchronously improving the wellbeing of young people through support services offered …
Read MoreGina Rembe: Designing place-based programmes (Throwback to November 2016)
Late last year Gina wrote a Medium article about her reflections on designing place-based programmes.
Over time, both anecdotes and data tell us that our programmes have become more meaningful — whether it’s people realising the size of their own …
Read MoreTahatū Rangi: An area ripe for disruption
Hosted by Platform Trust, Tahatū Rangi bought together around one hundred people from the NGO mental health and addictions workforce at Te Papa on the 20 & 21st October. Toni and Dayna from Lifehack went along to check it out. …
Read MoreOro–Upper Hutt Programme has begun
Our new programme, Oro, kicked off two weekends ago. And what a weekend it was!
We were joined by twenty five people, all whom had deep personal or professional connections to Upper Hutt. We couldn’t have done this without support …
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