Designing Oro–Upper Hutt
Below are some five lessons from working at the intersection—and how we integrated those in our newest programme Oro.
Lifehack has been experimenting with different programme shapes and intensities since early in 2014. This has resulted in us running online …
Read MoreLifehack’s top three reasons for getting back to nature #mhawnz
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week at the moment. The focus this year is connecting with nature and in this post we’ll be telling you our top three reasons to get out in nature and the benefits to your wellbeing. …
Read MoreIt’s Mental Health Awareness Week #mhwnz
Mental Health Awareness Week is marked by 150 countries annually, and this week is Aotearoa’s turn!
During this week you’ll see a bunch of social media posts with the #mhawnz and we encourage you to get involved. You can check …
Read MoreLifehack at Festival For The Future
Photo by Iris Riddle. Iris is the marketing manager at Inspiring Stories and was also on the 2016 Flourishing Fellowship
Last weekend, the Lifehack team had the amazing opportunity to attend Festival For The Future.
Over 900 people gather …
Read MoreReflections on Te Tiriti o Waitangi workshop
Reflections on Te Tiriti o Waitangi workshop
The following is a post by Christina Curley, a 2015 Flourishing Fellow on her reflections of attending Te Tiriti o Waitangi workshop.
What does it mean to be a bicultural and purpose driven …
Read MoreSovereign’s Clark Todd: Building on trust and potential
The following is a guest post by Clark Todd, Head of Corporate Responsibility at Sovereign Insurance.
A corporate funded social innovation project can help to make a positive change to a community or not for profits that need support. It …
Read MorePlace-based initiatives: Etsy.org’s Hudson Valley programme
Photo via Etsy.org
We at Lifehack are currently thinking about the relevance about place-based programmes (we may well be scheming we can talk about soon). I was excited to catch up with Grace Lodge from Etsy.org this morning. She currently …
Read MoreReflections on the Design for Social Innovation Symposium
In mid-July, I spent two days at the Design For Social Innovation symposium with the Lifehack team. As a gathering of practitioners in public social innovation, a lot of the time was spent looking at existing projects and their …
Read MorePARTICIPANT’S REFLECTION ON THE FELLOWSHIP SO FAR: CAROLYN TAUEKI-STOTT
Carolyn Taueki-Stott – Flourishing Fellow 2016
I didn’t have any idea what to expect walking in to the Yurt on the first day. Although it was a beautiful, clear Wellington afternoon, there was a slight chill in the air…the sort …
Read MoreSocial Enterprise Auckland Launch
A hundred people with a vested interested in the development of Auckland’s social enterprise scene came together at the Auckland University’s Business School to launch Social Enterprise Auckland. SEA describes itself as:
a collaborative group of social enterprises and their …
Read MoreMapping our network
Toni, Dayna and myself took a bit of time last week to map out the Lifehack network and universe.
Collaboration is baked into what we do—but when we put it on paper (or screen) it became even more obvious. Seeing …
Read MoreNgā Uri Ō at Design for Social Innovation Symposium 2016
On the 13th of July Lifehack delivered three 10-minute mini workshops at the Design for Social Innovation Symposium hosted at Massey University to share a tool we’re developing called Ngā Uri Ō. It’s a prototype concept to capture the importance …
Read MoreNgā Uri Ō – Descendants of
The Journey of Ngā Uri Ō
(photos of Ngā Uri Ō at the Sovereign and Youthline workshop March 2016)
Earlier in the year Lifehack gathered in Manukau along with Sovereign and Youthline where we facilitated 1.5 days of looking at …
Read MoreDesigning for Wellbeing: Reflecting on unexpected insights
by Sam Rye, former co-lead at Lifehack
What would happen if we took 290 students from a third year design paper, and focused the brief on Everyday Wellbeing?
In 2015 I was part of the Lifehack crew which teamed …
Read MoreThe Shifterhood is coming back to town
The Lifehack team has had the delight of following Fran ‘A-MAZING’ McEwen since she first joined us for last year’s Fellowship. Shortly after the Fellowship, Lifehack ran a programme called Te Kōanga, which …
Read MoreParticipant’s Reflection on the Fellowship so far: George Gribbin
A couple of weeks ago we hosted the first hui of this year’s Flourishing Fellowship. We spent five days at Waihōanga Centre for Well-being getting to know each other, ourselves and increasing our understanding of the opportunities and barriers when …
Read MoreA year and a bit in Lifehack — Simon
A year with Lifehack
Something of a review of time
From where it began
April 2015 feels like a long time ago, especially given how this journey has been so full and emergent. I often look back at how …
Read MoreRediscovering roots: Christina Leef on weaving our stories
He uri tēnei ō Te Rarawa
Ko Panguru tōku māunga
Ko Hokianga tōku moana
Ko Waihou tōku awa
Ko Nuku Tawhiti tōku waka
Ko Waipuna tōku marae
He uri anō tenei o kuki Airani
Nō te moutere ō Aitutaki. …
Read MoreMichael Smith: At the intersection: reflections from three years at the intersection
Michael was a participant on our Lifehack Labs programme in 2014. Below is a story captured about his journey along his own path of wellbeing across the last three years.
Michael had spent most of his life cruising through …
Read MoreIntroducing a sixth capital: Wellbeing
Over the past two years Lifehack has been exploring and experimenting with the concept of ‘capitals’ borrowed from Zaid Hassan over at Social Labs. Since the early days we’ve been using the concept of five capitals to assess if and …
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