Resilient Grieving: Finding Strength & Embracing Life After Loss
With Dr Lucy HoneAs a resilience researcher and trainer, it's Dr. Hone's job to be familiar with the range of evidence-based strategies that science shows help people cope with adversity, loss and change. When her 12 year old daugther was tragically killed in a car accident, Lucy was appalled by the passive tone and out-dated advice provided by grief experts. Fortunately, there is a large body of robust scientific evidence that suggests certain ways of thinking and acting can support people through times of adversity. This course is an introduction to those tools. Everyone of them is evidence-based but ultimately practical and road tested for their effectiveness in the context of bereavement. Throughout this course, Lucy will guide you through what she means by resilience, how common resilience is in the face of grief, and some of the common characteristics of resilient people. She will also share the most up to date findings from bereavement research, while debunking a number of long held myths around bereavement. By sharing her own story of loss, and how her academic training in psychology helped her weather tough times, you will learn how you too can cultivate personal resilience and adjust to your loss. You are not alone, we all have to cope with loss, but sadly not enough poeple are taught the ways of thinking and acting that can help them cope. Lucy is dedicated to changing this and hopes that you will join her.
A pragmatic and sincere guide to navigating grief and regaining control when faced with feelings of helplessness.
About this course
As a resilience researcher and trainer, it's Dr. Hone's job to be familiar with the range of evidence-based strategies that science shows help people cope with adversity, loss and change. When her 12 year old daugther was tragically killed in a car accident, Lucy was appalled by the passive tone and out-dated advice provided by grief experts. Fortunately, there is a large body of robust scientific evidence that suggests certain ways of thinking and acting can support people through times of adversity. This course is an introduction to those tools. Everyone of them is evidence-based but ultimately practical and road tested for their effectiveness in the context of bereavement. Throughout this course, Lucy will guide you through what she means by resilience, how common resilience is in the face of grief, and some of the common characteristics of resilient people. She will also share the most up to date findings from bereavement research, while debunking a number of long held myths around bereavement. By sharing her own story of loss, and how her academic training in psychology helped her weather tough times, you will learn how you too can cultivate personal resilience and adjust to your loss. You are not alone, we all have to cope with loss, but sadly not enough poeple are taught the ways of thinking and acting that can help them cope. Lucy is dedicated to changing this and hopes that you will join her.
Meet your Teacher
Dr. Lucy Hone is a director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a research associate at AUT University, a published academic researcher, best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today. On Queen’s Birthday weekend in 2014, the sudden death of her 12 year old daughter, Abi, (along with Lucy and Abi’s friends Ella and Sally Summerfield in a tragic road accident) forced Lucy to turn her substantial academic training and professional practice to foster resilience in very personal circumstances. The blog she wrote in the aftermath of Abi’s death attracted international attention and resulted in the best-selling non-fiction title, What Abi Taught Us, Strategies for Resilient Grieving (Allen & Unwin, 2016), now available as Resilient Grieving in the US, UK and NZ. Having been trained by the thought-leaders in the field – Marty Seligman, Chris Peterson, Ed Diener, Barb Fredrickson, Karen Reivich and Angela Duckworth among others – at the University of Pennsylvania, she went on to attain her PhD in public health at AUT University in Auckland. She now assists organisations – from leading law firms to primary schools – to design and implement wellbeing initiatives creating sustained and meaningful change. The widespread respect for Lucy’s work is demonstrated by two large-scale pilot projects she is currently running involving dozens of NZ schools, backed by Ministry of Education funding. A member of the NZAPP Executive Committee, the All Right? advisory board, the conference convenor for Positive Education NZ, and New Zealand’s only representative of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN), Lucy’s research has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Positive Psychology, Social Indicators Research, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the International Journal of Wellbeing and NZ Journal of Human Resources Management.