The PTA are offering a community evening in October. Dr Lucy Hone, from the NZ Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience, has combined her academic research in resilience with her experiences after losing her daughter to offer rich, practical, and real ideas on coping with life challenges. 

Lucy says of her work, "Sadly, we are all touched by adversity at some stage and it has become my mission to help people cope with change and loss, by providing them with evidence-based practical strategies allowing them to exert what control they can, where they can”.

Her professional work now focuses on the effective application of wellbeing and resilience science in real world contexts to promote mass-market wellbeing. She’s currently running a Ministry of Education funded pilot-scheme to promote wellbeing and resilience in a number of Christchurch schools. A member of the NZAPP Executive Committee, the All Right? advisory board, Lucy is New Zealand’s only representative of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN).

• Thursday 19 October at 7:30 pm, Performing Arts Centre, Heaton Normal Intermediate School. 
  
• (Doors open from 6:45 pm). The session will end around 9 pm. There will be time after the talk for Q&A. 
  
•  Please advise if disability access is required.  
  
• Entry is via a $5 donation. Tickets will be available via Kindo. No physical tickets required, your name will be checked off at the door. 
  
• The talk will be limited to 250 people. We have also opened the evening up to our local primary schools.  
  

Lucy's blog: 1wildandpreciouslife.com