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2013 – 2017 Final Impact Report
A summative assessment of the impact and learnings of Lifehack: a four year project funded by the New Zealand Government as part of the Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project (YMHP) with the aim of reducing mild to moderate mental …
2017 OJC Wellbeing Collaboration: Final Report
Lifehack was proud to partner with Ormiston Junior College (OJC), Changing Minds and Auckland Council Libraries to co-host this project which focussed on young people developing skill and agency to positively influence structures of wellbeing at their school and in …
2017 Flourishing Fellowship Impact Report
2017 saw the third iteration of the Fellowship programme. We’ve worked alongside Angelique from the Ripple Collective to create this report which outlines some of the early impacts made as a result of the programme.
You can read a short …
Youth Civics
Investigating youth civic engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand – voices of young people
Over the course of June 2015, the Lifehack team undertook a participatory approach to investigating the status of youth civic engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand from …
Oro—Upper Hutt report
Oro was Lifehack’s first intensive place-based programme. The programme built on existing relationships Lifehack had in Upper Hutt and was co-designed with local stakeholders. In trialling this new place-based approach we wanted to apply learnings from previous programmes about how …
Lifehack’s Impact Model
Over several months at the end of 2016 we developed a comprehensive Impact Model for Lifehack.
It helps to consolidate and share what we’ve learnt between 2013 and 2016 about how an innovation initiative like Lifehack creates and tracks impact. …
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge (report)
What would happen if we took 290 students studying a third year design paper, and focused the brief on Everyday Wellbeing?
In late 2015, the Lifehack crew teamed up with Massey University’s School of Design, to do something different with …
Flourishing Fellowship Report
The Flourishing Fellowship was Lifehack’s latest experiment in supporting social innovation to improve the wellbeing of young kiwis. It works by building a community of highly skilled champions who support one another in accelerating youth-wellbeing-related work throughout the country.…
Codesign Case Study: The Flourishing Fellowship
We’ve just finished our Codesign Case Study from the 2015 Flourishing Fellowship! Inside you’ll find out all about how we worked with people across Aotearoa New Zealand to create this new programme.
Codesign incorporates Lifehack’s two favourite methodologies: working alongside …
Lifehack Impact Report
Lifehack has been busy evaluating over the last two years!
Lately we’ve been evaluating our programmes and interventions into the wellbeing and mental health of young people across Aotearoa, New Zealand.
After carefully taking a look at the data and …
Lifehack Labs – One Year On – Impact Report
In 2014, we undertook our most intensive programme yet, with a 5 week, full time bootcamp for 20 young people from around Aotearoa New Zealand.
We called it Lifehack Labs.
This is the story of what happened since…
International research …
Lifehack Labs 2014 – Programme Design Report
In 2014 we launched a program to go deep into improving youth wellbeing. We asked young Kiwis from all over the country to clear the decks for 5 weeks to create themselves a springboard into a future working on youth …
Lifehack Weekends Report 2014
In 2014, Lifehack pioneered a new collaborative weekend event format around the country which sought to put more energy behind the youth wellbeing projects which were already showing signs of promise, but often didn’t have access to creative energy or …
