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A Strong Healthy Mind
We had the honour of interviewing Sami Pirkola, Professor of Social Psychiatry at the University of Tampere, who chaired an expert group in creating the Finnish mental health strategy for 2020-2030. Sami is also a guitarist in the band Juliet Jones’ Heart since the eighties. In this article, we explore the mental health strategy his […]
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Piloting a 6-week Self-Hack career program with the city of Tampere, interviewing Riika-Stiina Laurokari
Riika-Stiina Laurokari has been organising Self-Hack courses in Tampere Employment Services from autumn 2020. She has been the first to organise a six-week course for young unemployed jobseekers with higher education qualifications, based on the exercises in the Self-Hack Career Playbook. The course has been organised three times so far, with around ten participants at […]
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Lauri Järvilehto, on motivation and learning
We had the opportunity to interview Lauri Järvilehto, Professor of Practice at Aalto University. We asked him about his views on life planning and its importance to society. Lauri researches topics such as motivation and working life, he is also an entrepreneur and consultant who helps organisations to develop their culture. First, a few quotes […]
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Self-Hack in Oulu, from a single workshop to a university-wide practice
The majority of all those who have completed the Self-Hack have done it at the University of Oulu. Niina Marostenmäki and Nina Jackson organised a big Self-Hack Day for all new students in autumn 2019. Since then, around 3000 students in Oulu have participated in Self-Hack at the beginning of their studies and 100 have […]
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Self-Hack TAMK, towards comprehensive career planning for students
At TAMK, Self-Hack has been organized since 2020 in several sessions in autumn and winter. The interviewees Nelli Pahkamäki, Minna Arkko and Elli Korhonen have all been involved in developing and implementing Self-Hack at TAMK. They would also like to thank Clémentine Arpilaineni, who brought Self-Hack to TAMK for a trial through a Continuous Learning […]
