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Dr Lucy Hone is an internationally recognised researcher, bestselling author, and professional speaker whose work focuses on how people navigate loss, change, and life disruption.
She is the author of Resilient Grieving and How Will I Ever Get Through This?, and her TED talk Three Secrets of Resilient People is among the top 100 TED talks of all time, with more than 9 million views worldwide.
Lucy brings together academic research, deep listening, and lived experience, including supporting family members with dementia | mate wareware. Her work explores how people live with anticipatory grief, ambiguous and intangible losses, and how we find meaning, connection, and ways of staying emotionally resourced through the long and challenging chapters of our lives.
She works globally across community, health, education, and workplace settings, and is deeply committed to building grief literacy and emotional wellbeing at scale.
Upcoming Event
How Will I Ever Get Through This? Finding Meaning, Connection and Strength while Living With Dementia.
When you are living with dementia | mate wareware, or walking alongside someone who is, life becomes a series of constant adjustments. The emotional load is heavy, the uncertainty relentless, and the sense of loss ongoing. Many people describe feeling exhausted, isolated, misunderstood, and overwhelmed, even when surrounded by others.
In this live Q&A conversation with Winifred Henderson (Senior Educator, Dementia New Zealand), Dr Lucy Hone draws on her research, years of listening to people navigating profound life change, and her own family experience of dementia and loss, to reflect on what helps people stay connected, and emotionally resourced through long, uncertain journeys.
Lucy’s session will explore:
- The less-understood realities of living with dementia and caring
- Why/how grief, love, frustration, hope, and exhaustion can often coexist
- How we stay connected to ourselves and others when life keeps changing
- What genuinely helps sustain meaning, compassion, and emotional strength over time
This session is designed as a compassionate, thoughtful conversation for people living with dementia, care partners, and whānau, offering recognition, understanding, grief insights and connection.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, 3rd June 2026
Time: 10am – 11am
Online via Zoom
Ticket Prices:
Carers and whānau – Free
Individual Professional – $50 including a Certificate of Attendance
Limited tickets – get in quick!
For international registrations (outside of New Zealand), please email events@dementia.nz.
