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Enabling Youth Wellbeing: Developing a Lifehack Impact Model

By Penny Hagen | April 19, 2017

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 …

The Lifehack Community: successes, failures and futures

By Paul McGregor | January 27, 2017

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 …

Co-designing learning sessions

By Dayna Carter | December 14, 2016

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 …

Designing Oro–Upper Hutt

By Gina Rembe | October 27, 2016

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 …

Lifehack’s top three reasons for getting back to nature #mhawnz

By Toni Reid | October 13, 2016

 

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. …

Lifehack at Festival For The Future

By Gina Rembe | October 3, 2016

 

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 …

Social Enterprise Auckland Launch

By Toni Reid | July 26, 2016

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 …

Mapping our network

By Gina Rembe | July 25, 2016

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 …

The Shifterhood is coming back to town

By Gina Rembe | July 6, 2016
Photo by Natalie Proctor / Simon Jarvis

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 …

A year and a bit in Lifehack — Simon

By Gina Rembe | June 30, 2016

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 …

Rediscovering roots: Christina Leef on weaving our stories

By Gina Rembe | June 28, 2016

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. …

Introducing a sixth capital: Wellbeing

By Gina Rembe | June 12, 2016

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 …

Experimenting with placing financial value on experiences

By Dayna Carter | May 25, 2016

You may have read or seen that Lifehack are on the lookout for the next generation of Flourishing Fellows. Similarly to last year, Lifehack are looking for up to twenty-five people from around Aotearoa to convene around the topic of …

Nick Laurence: Be mindful, make a difference

By Gina Rembe | May 24, 2016

In continuing on from introducing one of 2015’s Flourishing Fellows, we’re proud to present Nick Laurence and his journey thus far. Nick joined us in July last year for the Flourishing Fellowship and has since then continued on to launch …

From Tee-Ball to Dancing: How caring about young women’s wellbeing starts with putting them at the center

By Gina Rembe | May 9, 2016

Fran was a participant in our Flourishing Fellowship in 2015. After completing the Fellowship she went on with her project and team to be a part of Te Kōanga; a programme aiming to accelerate projects from idea to product and …

Kites Codesign session

By Gina Rembe | May 2, 2016

Over the past year Lifehack and Kites Trust have been sharing ideas and resources specifically around the role of design, technology and peer support in lives of young New Zealanders.

 

This month, Lifehack was invited to facilitate a codesign …

The amazing humans of Christchurch

By Gina Rembe | May 2, 2016

Earlier this month Toni and Gina travelled to Christchurch to participate at the Youth Collaborative Hui and catch up with old friends, while making new friends along the way.

As we listened deeply to the experiences of the various people …

We’re coming to Christchurch!

By Gina Rembe | April 4, 2016

We’re off to Christchurch this week!

 

Last year, Lifehack was invited to do a poster presentation at the Collaborative Trust Hui in Christchurch, this year we’re back presenting a workshop around the conference topic:

‘More than words – Extending …

Lifehack Community Retreat – Lucy Tyndall

By Gina Rembe | March 31, 2016

 

Reconnect – Recharge – Renew

 

There is much to be said for getting in a car full of strangers and driving to Ōtaki. You start conversations with people you never expected to, or wouldn’t normally get the chance …

Lifehack’s Impact story — out now

By Gina Rembe | February 22, 2016

(Illustration by Miranda Lees)

For the past few months we’ve been beavering away trying so sum up the learnings and impact from our mahi from the last couple of years. Two years ago, we started running our first experiments: the …