While we cannot control our life circumstances, we can control our responses.
What does it really mean to be resilient? Are some people born with a resilience gene or can it be taught? Can resilience truly help put us back in the driver’s seat of life? If so, how? These are some of the questions that Global Authority on Resilience Dr Lucy Hone addressed last year, with 30,000 people globally, in keynotes and training sessions focused on creating Realistic Resilience Practices that work.
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A renowned global expert on resilience, the Director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, and blogger for Psychology Today, Lucy offers a one-of-kind perspective - sharpened through academia but also deeply personally applied in response to a devastating tragedy. Her focus on helping people and organisations create practical resilience strategies is a call to action in light of so many feeling resilience fatigues.
Lucy’s mission to translate the best of resilience psychology for everyday practice inspired her to create a keynote entitled, Three Secrets of Resilient People, which became one of the most-watched TED talks during the pandemic, with over 9 million views and has been translated into 15 languages.
Known as a respected change agent on this very timely topic, Lucy is also an award-winning ‘pracademic’ with a Master’s degree in resilience psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in wellbeing science/public health from AUT University in Auckland.
Her ground-breaking research is published in leading peer-reviewed international journals and frequently cited by others. She now assists a host of organizations ranging from Fortune 500s, government agencies and law firms to community groups and schools to design and implement wellbeing and resilience initiatives, re-shaping how resilience is viewed and creating sustained and meaningful change.
Describing her role as a ‘pracademic’ Lucy explains, “Too many resilience researchers don’t know how to communicate their studies, and too many presenters don’t really get the nuances and theories underpinning the science. I love being a pracademic, who truly gets the evidence, but also relishes the challenge of presenting it to people to make their everyday lives better.”
A Bestselling Author, Lucy’s books include Resilient Grieving, which details how she coped with her own unimaginable personal loss, and her latest book, The Educators’ Guide to Whole-School Wellbeing, which addresses challenges faced by schools wanting to improve wellbeing in their school communities.
She is also regularly featured in the global media including The Guardian, The Washington Post and the BBC.
Dr Lucy Hone’s goal is to help anyone struggling through change, uncertainty, or loss re-learn how to live in the world around them. In this day and age, everyone needs skills to be resilient. Lucy has helped millions of people realize that an energized, meaningful, joy-filled life is attainable no matter the challenge that lies in front of you.
Talking Points
Resilience: How can we promote it in ourselves and others? Lessons from research & life
If you’ve ever wondered what the word “resilience” really means, or how you can help yourself and your teams cope with constant challenge and change, then this session is for you. While there are many resilience researchers in the world, the death of her 12-year old daughter in a tragic road accident, makes Dr Lucy Hone's skillset quite unique. Resilience: How can we promote it in ourselves and others? Lessons from research & life
Co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience and adjunct senior fellow at the University of Canterbury, Lucy speaks at global conferences, creates online courses, writes books, academic articles and blogs to spread her insights far and wide. Her PhD was acknowledged internationally for its outstanding contribution to wellbeing science and her research is published in leading psychology journals. Her best-selling book, Resilient Grieving, and her hugely popular TED talk, Three Secrets of Resilient People (over 2.6 million views) have delivered Dr Hone’s refreshing approach to global audiences. Her work has been featured in international media including the Guardian and the Washington Post, the BBC and ABC, Channel News Asia, Swedish Television, The Bolt Report Australia and TVNZ.
Lucy’s engaging style, and deep knowledge of these topics, makes her one of the world’s foremost presenters on resilience. However, it is her self-effacing humour, and the way she manages to relate academic findings to her own life (and yours!) that make her sessions so useful and enjoyable.
What is Wellbeing and Why Does it Matter?
What is Wellbeing and Why Does it Matter?
Maintaining High Performance in the Age of Burnout
In an increasingly turbulent world, the fact that some people cope better with stress, challenge and change, has become readily apparent. Acknowledging that this year is going to continue to test us, this Keynote address shares the secrets to sustainable high performance, de-mystifying burnout, and providing practical strategies to keep it at bay.
Maintaining High Performance in the Age of Burnout
The Secrets of High Performing Teams
The Secrets of High Performing Teams
The Secrets of Resilient People
Dr Lucy Hone is a globally respected resilience academic who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take her to a far darker place. In this powerful and courageous talk, she shares the three strategies that got her through unimaginable tragedy and offers profound insights on how we can help ourselves and others cope in this era of uncertainty and change.
The Secrets of Resilient People
Thriving through uncertainty: the soft skills we all need for hard times
Thriving through uncertainty: the soft skills we all need for hard times
Coping with Loss: Actionable tools for helping yourself and others navigate tough times
While adversity doesn’t discriminate and all of us, at times, are forced to endure losses of one kind of another, we often feel helpless in the face of loss. What can we do to help? What kind of help is actually helpful? What should we say, what do we avoid? Coping with Loss: Actionable tools for helping yourself and others navigate tough times
When the worst happened to Dr Lucy Hone, she turned her years of resilience research and training to discover what helps us navigate our darkest days. Known for her best-selling book, Resilient Grieving, and her hugely popular TED talk, 3 Secrets of Resilient People, Lucy shares her hard-won lessons for tough times. While her presentation cuts to the heart of what it is to be human, she is masterful in keeping the messaging hopeful and sharing learnable, actionable tools.
Unlock Your Teams’ True Potential: practical tools to help your teams grow navigate challenge & change
If your teams are feeling overwhelmed by the constant demands of on-going challenge and uncertainty, it’s time to unlock their true potential by learning the fundamental skills of resilient mindsets. Unlock Your Teams’ True Potential: practical tools to help your teams grow navigate challenge & change
Regarded as a thought leader in the field of resilience psychology, and respected internationally for her ground-breaking research, Dr Lucy knows how to cope with adversity like no other, having been forced to live through the loss of her 12 year old daughter in a tragic road accident.
“Losing Abi taught me so much more about resilience than I’d ever learn from academic study alone, putting everything I knew to the test. It also revealed the incredible power of adopting a resilient mindset. The evidence is clear, we cannot control the circumstances of our lives, yet we can control our response. Any team that focuses on what they can change - instead of what they can’t - can avoid limiting Thinking Traps, knows how to harness the power of ‘realistic optimism’, and builds psychological safety together possesses a massive competitive advantage.”
Co-director at the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, adjunct senior professor at the University of Canterbury, an internationally sought-after professional speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning ‘pracademic’, Dr Lucy’s TED talk became world-renowned going viral during Covid, making it one of the Top 20 TED talks of 2020.
She now works with world-leading brands including Fortune 500 companies, government departments and global agencies, while her work is regularly featured in global media, including the Guardian, the Washington Post, the BBC, CBS , and ABC.
Every team needs to master the skills to navigate adversity and change in the current climate. Lucy has helped millions of people learn how to effectively focus their resources enabling them to thrive through adversity, move forward, and live meaningful, highly productive lives no matter the challenges ahead.
Keeping Burnout at Bay: It’s not what you do at the weekends, but what you do while at work that counts! A practical workshop translating the new scientific findings on burnout to refuel your teams
Are your staff feeling overwhelmed, their batteries flat? Well, guess what, they’re not alone! According to Dr Lucy Hone, leading international resilience and workplace productivity expert, the typical workplace messaging around burnout won’t solve the problem, in fact, it very often makes it worse. Keeping Burnout at Bay: It’s not what you do at the weekends, but what you do while at work that counts! A practical workshop translating the new scientific findings on burnout to refuel your teams
“The evidence is clear, anyone who loves their job and derives a sense of purpose and identity from it is at elevated risk of burnout. But to date, way too much attention has put the onus for burnout prevention on self-care. Yes, we do all need to know what helps re-energies and recharge us when we’re away from work, however, knowing the things you can do to prevent burnout during the working day is a way more effective approach, and those key insights don’t seem to be permeating workplaces yet.”
In this highly practical workshop, Dr Lucy will share the three levels of her Burnout Prevention Plan equipping your teams to better recognise burnout, understand the differences between burnout, stress and depression, and identify changes that will have immediate impact.
“I’ll be teaching your teams the key drivers of burnout, so they know how to manage themselves better, but also, critically, understand what they can do to support each other. We know that the solutions to burnout prevention lie beyond individual wellness approaches, and given most workplaces cannot change their entire organisational practices, it makes sense to tackle this costly and pernicious problem at the team level, where small, immediate changes really do add up. If you want to avoid burnout and increase retention, the secret lies in understanding those key drivers and put individual and team plans in place to mitigate them.”
Co-director at the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, adjunct senior professor at the University of Canterbury, an internationally sought-after professional speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning ‘pracademic’, Dr Lucy’s TED talk became world-renowned going viral during Covid, making it one of the Top 20 TED talks of 2020.
She now works with world-leading brands including Fortune 500 companies, government departments and global agencies, while her work is regularly featured in global media, including the Guardian, the Washington Post, the BBC, CBS , and ABC.
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The three secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone | TEDxChristchurch
Dr Lucy Hone is a resilience expert who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take her to a far darker place. In this powerful and courageous talk, she shares the three strategies that got her through an unimaginable tragedy?-and offers a profound insight on human suffering. 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 contributor to Psychology Today, the Sunday Star Times and Next magazine. She trained at the University of Pennsylvania and got her PhD in public health at AUT University in Auckland. She has helped a range of organisations-from primary schools to leading law firms-to design and implement wellbeing initiatives creating sustained and meaningful change. Five years ago, the sudden death of Lucy’s 12-year-old daughter Abi forced Lucy to turn her 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.Dr Lucy Hone | Is it helping or harming? | Saxton Live powered by Delegate Connect
Dr Lucy Hone is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today.Dr Lucy Hone | Ordinary Magic | Saxton Live Powered by Delegate Connect
Dr Lucy Hone is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today.I just wanted to pass on my huge thanks to Lucy for speaking at our event last night. I have never had such great feedback from one of these events - there is still a buzz around the office ... keep reading Nexia New Zealand
Probably the most beneficial talk I have ever listened to. Fantastic speaker. Inspirational. Excellent presentation and useful strategies. The most relevant information for me at this conference.
On behalf of the Finance Commercialization Event planning team thank you very much for your engagement on our Global Finance Meeting and for contributing to the success of our meeting. Your presentation was tailored to our needs, you showed a lot of flexibility and consideration to our needs and we have received very nice feedback. Many thanks for the materials you sent us to support your presentation and workshop.
Lucy was great. Very engaging. Adapted her message to fit our group. Everyone walked away with something from her story.
It was lovely to meet Lucy in person, her content was spot on and she really captured the audience.
Dr Lucy was a highlight of our Conference this year, just as she was at our Leadership Forum in 2021. Her delivery in not only professional and relevant, she provides practical advice that anyone can utilise, just sensational.
It was an absolute pleasure working with Lucy, she was engaging and relatable and the presentation was perfectly tailored for our audience.
We were incredibly excited to have Dr. Lucy Hone zoom in to chat with us as part of our Mental Wellbeing Month activations this October. and wow - she didn't disappoint! It was one of the most impactful firesides/chats we have ever put on (and we do quite a lot here at Canva!). Dr. Hone's research around resilience absolutely resonated with our team and her actionable steps were bang on. Would definitely recommend !
We were incredibly excited to have Dr. Lucy Hone zoom in to chat with us as part of our Mental Wellbeing Month activations this October. and wow - she didn't disappoint! It was one of the most impactful firesides/chats we have ever put on (and we do quite a lot here at Canva!). Dr. Hone's research around resilience absolutely resonated with our team and her actionable steps were bang on. Would definitely recommend!
Thank you for sharing this conversation with me today. I feel as though I benefited greatly from having had the opportunity to speak with you firsthand, and suspect that many of those in the room felt the same proximity to you. Your scholarship and practice brought great comfort to us through your TED Talk, and I believe the EDUCAUSE community received a gift through your candor and wisdom today. Looking forward to what comes next.
Dr Lucy Hone is both an engaging and insightful speaker. Not only did our conference delegates really enjoy her presentation, Q&A session and subsequent panel, she was great for us to work with as organisers.
Lucy’s session was incredibly insightful and helpful to our directors when navigating the new flexible work norms of the industry.
The annual NEXTGEN Leadership Forum tackles the challenges that leaders must face to ensure their companies, organisations,and people survive, grow, and prosper in the challenges that the world and markets throw at us. The 2023 theme of “Building Resilience” demanded keynote speakers that could give an impactful session drawing on their experiences both at a leadership and a personal level. Dr Lucy Hone’s Key Note delivered in spades, from her academic research in the USA and New Zealand to her practical application of resilience strategies during the Christchurch earthquake, closely followed by a very personal tragedy soon afterwards. Lucy spoke with passion, empathy, impact, and practicality. Thank you, Lucy.
We loved Dr Lucy - I personally enjoyed connecting with her before the session as she took the time to understand our context and was thoughtful about what works best in an online setting. The session itself was engaging and impactful - our people got a lot from it.
Dr Lucy was really personable and was able to tell her story and her lessons in simple terms which can be adapted to everyday life. Her session was relevant to each of us in the room and I'm sure people took home a few 'a-ha moments'.
Lucy’s delivery was top notch, casual yet captivating. I cannot begin to say how amazing and engaging Lucy’s presentation was. I enjoyed every bit of it and would recommend Lucy to any group!
We have had overwhelmingly positive feedback from the team. I shared a survey after the conference asking “how valuable did you find the guest speaker session” - the answer so far has been 4.95 out of 5. So, the team found it immensely valuable. Key messaging has been the practical nature of the talk has meant people can put the ideas into action immediately. Lucy was great and I would highly recommend her to anyone else.
Dr. Lucy Hone made a profound impact during her presentation on resilience at the 2023 Mindshop Australasian conference. Her authentic and engaging style captivated the audience as she shared touching personal stories and simplified the complexities surrounding how to be more resilient. With her three key points to enhance resilience, lucy tied the session together in a practical way our attendees could take back to apply themselves, with their team and with clients. Thank you again for sharing your stories and wisdom in this important area that underpins business and personal performance.
I adore listening to Dr Lucy Hone, I couldn't take notes fast enough. In this modern world where our daily headspace can be our biggest enemy, her strategies for coping and silencing your inner critic are just fabulous. I plan to share her tips with my family and I hope our workplace gets her in for a session asap.
Lucy was fantastic! She worked with us very collaboratively to tailor her session to our business. The feedback received was incredible.
Lucy was determined to make the events she did for us relevant and with an element of local. It wasn't about her, it was about the audience. Spot on.
Lucy was great. She was very personable (which is a little hard to achieve over an entirely virtual platform), and had fabulous ideas about how to best facilitate the session to maximum effect.
We invited Lucy to speak to our Senior Leaders and also complete a workshop with them to give them tangible tools to use for themselves and within their teams. Our audience was very engaged and appreciated the tools given to enable them to lead resilient teams within our business.
Lucy is clearly very accomplished in her field but makes her work accessible and applicable for the audience. Lucy blended her personal story and practical tips into an insightful and relevant presentation that held everyone's attention.
