DR LUCY HONE

Lucy is a director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, senior adjunct fellow at the University of Canterbury, a published academic researcher, best-selling author and contributor to Psychology Today. She has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in wellbeing science/public health from AUT University. A member of the NZAPP Executive Committee, she is the conference convenor of Wellbeing in Education, he akonga aumangea, he akonga tu maia, and New Zealand’s only representative of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN). Her research has been published in 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. The loss of her 12-year old daughter, Abi, in a tragic road accident in 2014 resulted in the best-selling non-fiction title, Resilient Grieving (Allen & Unwin, 2016) now available in the US, Australia, UK and NZ. She is also co-author of The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing: A practical guide to getting started, best-practice process and effective implementation (Taylor & Francis, 2020).

How to Get Started When Taking a Whole-school Approach to Wellbeing: Reviewing the best of science and practice

While many education centres globally understand the need to promote and protect wellbeing, they often find themselves stuck – not knowing where to start, what to prioritise, or how to implement whole-system wellbeing change.

Dr Denise Quinlan and Dr Lucy Hone will share practical insights to help you create individualised wellbeing plans to fit with the culture and context of your learning institution. Sadly, there is no one size fits all when it comes to wellbeing, but a decade’s work with diverse schools and learning centres around the world has helped identify the processes and practices that lay solid foundations.

If you know you want to promote wellbeing, come and listen to Denise and Lucy (authors of the Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing: A practical guide to getting started, bestpractice process and effective implementation (Taylor & Francis, 2020)) share their best-practice insights on how to get started.

The Educators Guide to Whole-School Wellbeing:
A Practical Guide to Getting Started, Best-practice Process and Effective Implementation

The Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing addresses challenges faced by schools wanting to improve wellbeing. While many schools globally now understand the need to promote and protect student wellbeing, they often find themselves stuck – not knowing where to start, what to prioritise, or how to implement whole-school change. This book fills that gap.