Coping with Loss & Change: Lessons from science and life
with Dr. Lucy Hone
Practical tools for resilient grief while living with chronic illness. Whether you're personally affected or supporting a loved one, this Zoom seminar with Dr. Lucy Hone offers a compassionate space.
Tuesday, 9 December 2025 | 7:30 pm
Registration closes on Monday, 08 December, at 5 pm
You will receive an email with the Zoom link during the 24 hours before the event
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Details: Coping with loss and change
Living with a chronic illness – especially a degenerative neurological condition – can bring all kinds of difficult emotions. Even after processing the initial grief of a diagnosis, people often live with a continued sense of loss. The experience of unresolvable grief can arise unexpectedly or be a hidden but persistent undercurrent. And it doesn’t just affect the person with a chronic illness: those closest to them feel it also. They, too, may grieve the loss of what was – how life used to be – adding another layer of complexity to the experience of living with loss.
Dr. Lucy Hone, an expert in resilience psychology and grief, will be talking about ‘living losses' and ‘hidden grief’, sharing practical insights and tools from science to help people cope with compassion, courage and grace.
Please note:
Registration closes at 5 pm on Monday, 08 December. Roughly 24 hours before the event, you will receive an email reminder that contains the Zoom link you’ll use to access the seminar.
If you have any questions or cannot afford this session, but would like to attend, please don’t hesitate to contact Nick.
This event is a fundraiser for Mastering Mountains Charitable Trust and is offered in collaboration with Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand.
What you will learn
During this Zoom session, you will learn:
About hidden grief and living losses, and how they can be experienced in relation to chronic illness.
What the science of resilience research offers us in our everyday contexts.
Strategies for individuals (and their loved ones) to build resilience as they navigate life and chronic illness.
Coming out of this session, our goal is for you to feel equipped with learnable, practical tools that will enable you to live a more resilient, hope-filled life, despite your challenges.
Your presenter: Dr Lucy Hone
Regarded as a global thought leader in the field of resilience psychology, tragedy tested everything Dr Lucy thought she knew about resilience in deeply personal circumstances when her daughter and friends were killed in a tragic accident. Adjunct senior fellow at the University of Canterbury and at the University of Pittsburgh’s Medical School, Lucy is an internationally sought-after professional speaker, best-selling author, and award-winning academic. Covid-19 saw her TED talk go viral making it one of the Top 20 of 2020. With clients ranging from Apple and Amazon, to Hospice and the UN, she helps individuals, teams and communities navigate tough times. Her work is regularly featured in global media, including the Guardian, the Hidden Brain, the Washington Post, and the BBC, the Sydney Morning Herald, CBS and ABC. Author of best-seller, Resilient Grieving: how to find your way through devastating loss and other books furthering her mission to build wellbeing and resilience at the population level.
Follow Lucy on social media: @drlucyhone
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More about this event
This event is a fundraiser for Mastering Mountains, celebrating 10 years of operation, and is offered in collaboration with Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand. MSNZ was instrumental in the launch of Mastering Mountains in 2015, and we are deeply grateful for their continued help, generosity and relationship.
Mastering Mountains exists to support and inspire hope in people with multiple sclerosis and functional neurological disorder by providing the mentoring, rehabilitation, and peer support they need to achieve self-directed outdoor adventures that are meaningful to them. We work with individuals in our programmes for 9-18 months, and it costs us roughly $12,000 per year to run our programmes. Read more about our programmes and the people we’ve helped.
The money raised through this event will be used directly to support those who need it the most, providing free access to our programmes. If you believe this work is important or interesting, please consider giving an additional, tax-deductible donation.