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Straight 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 …
Reflections 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 …
Rediscovering 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. …
Pre-conference workshop with Young & Well and our youth co-convenors
Six of us sat around a white table in an apartment in Downtown Montreal. Half of us under 25, this team we were forming were meeting in person for the first time only 24 hours before running a full-day workshop …
Lifehack loose in New York
Can you imagine, our team loose in New York City en route to Montreal?
That was our reality last week in the lead up to the global conference for IAYMH (see original post here). My name is Chelsea, I’ve …
IAYMH Trip to Canada / USA
A few months ago we received an email inviting Lifehack to co-facilitate a workshop at a conference together with our friends at Young & Well Co-operative Research Centre in Australia and two young community leaders. The sender?
The International …
Seed by Seed: Facilitation training at Massey Wellington
Finding good training around facilitation is hard to come by, that’s why when the Lifehack crew saw that Seed by Seed in collaboration with the good people at the Massey University Centre for Public Health Research we knew it would …
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 …
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 …
Developing Social Technologies – Two Pioneering Reports
How do technologies which improve lives get developed?
We’ve been asking ourselves this question at Lifehack for 18 months now, and feel like we’re beginning to find some of our own answers. Not only are we seeing the development of …
eBook: Experiments, Prototypes & MVP’s
Experiments are a method to generate the currency of entrepreneurship – learning.
But how do they relate to Prototypes and MVP’s? Aren’t they the same thing? If they’re not, when would you use each of them? What does MVP even …
A Week With Social Labs Revolution Author, Zaid Hassan
If you had the opportunity to spend a week with someone with 15 years of experience in your domain, what would you hope to learn?
Less than a month after we wrapped up Lifehack Labs (our most multi-layered initiative to …
#LifehackLabs – Week 1 – Connection, Courage & Content
Last week we got off to a flying start in Week 1 of the inaugural Lifehack Labs with 20 young people from around Aotearoa New Zealand converging on Wellington.
We’ll be writing a blog post each week to keep you …
Northland – So many great initiatives in the Far North
When researching potential projects for our recent Northland event, I was blown away by the suggestions that came from across Te Tai Tokerau.
From suicide prevention to problem gambling – projects across the entire spectrum were brought to our …
LIFEHACK Northland – Fun in the Far North!
A couple of weekends ago we had our first experience running a residential hui – all of a sudden we spend not just two very intense days with the Lifehack participants, but evenings and nights as well. Paired with a …
Mental Health Awareness Week – Design thinking helping us to connect
This past week was Mental Health Awareness week across Aotearoa & the theme was “connect”. From reading & experience, it seems clear that feeling cohesion with others, acceptance, inclusion & the ability to relate to others keeps our esteem high …
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