Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency · Tassie grown

Created with grace — delivered with grit.

Building stronger people, stronger practice

Grace & Grit is a Tasmanian registered not-for-profit social enterprise, founded by Marg Cranney and Tanya Brooks-Cooper. As a Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency, we deliver Safe & Together training across Tasmania. Our wider work spans family and domestic violence practice, community development, mentoring and leadership, reflective practice, and grant writing — delivered as practical workshops, consulting, and policy advocacy, co-designed with your team so it actually lands.

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About Grace & Grit

A Tasmanian practice, built from lived and professional experience

Our work spans Safe & Together training, family and domestic violence (FDV) practice and advocacy, community development, mentoring and leadership, reflective practice, and grant writing and funding capability — delivered to organisations, boards, councils, and community groups across the state.

Grace & Grit draws on our founders' decades of hands-on experience across Tasmania's community sector — in family and domestic violence, youth services, education, and community governance. We bring that lived and professional experience into every room we work in, and we're building our reach to serve communities right across the state, including our island communities. Tassie grown, nationally adaptable — we're ready to take our approach to the mainland too. Every workshop is grounded in the same commitment: practical, honest, evidence-informed training that people can put to use immediately, delivered by people who have done the work themselves.

A growing social enterprise. Grace & Grit is a registered not-for-profit social enterprise, supporting the Tasmanian Online Lions Club. We develop our training programs with clients as the demand takes us — growing our offering in response to what the sector actually needs. If you want something unique to your workplace, organisation, or group, let us know.

How we work

  • Safe & Together-informed — we are a Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency, and a perpetrator pattern–based, child-centred lens runs through our family violence work
  • Co-designed with you — almost everything we build is shaped with your team first, so it actually lands, not delivered off the shelf
  • Tasmanian-grown, nationally adaptable — developed for Tasmanian communities and organisations, ready to adapt for the mainland
  • Practical over theoretical — every workshop leaves participants with tools, templates, and next steps
  • Strengths-based — we build on what's working, rather than starting from deficit
  • Honest — about what's genuinely achievable, and what it takes to get there
  • Flexible delivery — half-day, full-day, multi-session, online, in person, statewide, or nationally
What we offer

Training and consulting, side by side

One practice, two ways of working with us — often at the same time. Almost everything below is co-designed with you, so it fits your organisation, not a generic template.

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Co-Design & Community Development

Everything starts here. We move organisations beyond tokenistic consultation toward genuine, shared co-design with the people and communities they serve — and we build our own workshops and programs the same way.

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Safe & Together and Family Violence Practice

Safe & Together training for your workforce, plus consulting on organisational FV practice, alignment with the ANROWS National Risk Assessment Principles, and cross-sector collaboration — building systems that centre survivor safety and hold perpetrators accountable.

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Leadership Training & Mentoring

Our nine-part Mentoring Toolkit and leadership development workshops build practical, confident leaders and mentors at every stage — from emerging leaders to seasoned managers.

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Workforce Strategy & Development

From recruitment to retention — our "Hire Well, Keep Well" framework supports sustainable, values-aligned workforce planning across the community sector.

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Supervision & Leadership Consulting

Building reflective, accountable supervision cultures for leaders at every level, including Safe & Together Supervisor & Manager Training for teams applying the Model.

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Policy, Research & Submissions

We've presented to parliamentary committees, shaped government policy, and contributed to national reform consultations. We help your organisation find and use its voice.

Safe & Together™ Model

Safe & Together training, delivered in Tasmania

Grace & Grit is a Safe & Together Institute Partner Agency. Co-founder Tanya Brooks-Cooper is a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer, holding CORE, Overview, and Supervisor & Manager credentials, and delivers the full training suite through Grace & Grit.

The Model is a child-centred, perpetrator pattern–based framework for working with families where domestic abuse is present. It moves practice away from blaming protective parents and towards holding perpetrators accountable for their choices as parents.

The Model sits naturally alongside the ANROWS National Risk Assessment Principles and Risk Factors for family and domestic violence, the shared, evidence-based foundation that Tasmania and other states and territories draw on for their risk assessment frameworks. Both look past single incidents to the pattern of behaviour and its impact on children.

The three principles

  1. Keeping children safe and together with the non-offending parent
  2. Partnering with the non-offending parent as the default position
  3. Intervening with the perpetrator to reduce risk and harm to the child
4-day program

CORE Training

The skills-based foundation for domestic abuse–informed practice, across assessment, interviewing and engagement, documentation, and case planning. 22 hours of learning, in person or live remote (four full days or eight half days).

$1,200 per person
1-day overview

Safe & Together Overview

A one-day experiential introduction to the Model for everyone in an organisation. Covers the principles and critical components, the perpetrator pattern–based approach, and recognising survivor strengths.

$250 per person
2 or 3-day program

Supervisor & Manager Training

For supervisors and managers who have completed CORE Training. Builds the skills to support workers to apply a perpetrator pattern–based approach in their casework and supervision.

$900 per person
Ongoing sessions

Community of Practice

Facilitated sessions that help practitioners embed Safe & Together in everyday casework after training, through case discussion, shared learning, and peer support.

Ask us for pricing

Booking Safe & Together training. Group bookings welcome. We deliver in-house for your organisation or as community cohorts across lutruwita/Tasmania, so ask us for a group quote. Community rates are available for not-for-profits and community organisations. Please allow at least 30 days’ notice to book a date.

Enquire about Safe & Together

Safe & Together™ is a trademark of the Safe & Together Institute. Grace & Grit delivers Safe & Together training as an Institute Partner Agency.

Workshop & training prospectus

Our workshops, at a glance

Looking for Safe & Together? See our Safe & Together suite. All workshops below are available half-day, full-day, or across multiple sessions, delivered online, in person, statewide, or nationally. Workshops can be delivered individually or combined into a tailored program.

3-hour workshop

Building Relationships That Work

Explores how personal power shapes relationships at work, at home, and in the community, using the Drama Triangle and Empowerment Triangle to shift teams from blame and rescue into collaboration.

Full-day workshop

The Reflective Edge

Turning everyday experience into better leadership. Builds reflective practice as a self-leadership and team debriefing skill, using the Gibbs Cycle and other established models.

Nine-part series

Grace & Grit Mentoring Toolkit

A nine-workshop series — individual or connected program — building practical mentoring skills, from foundations through to difficult conversations.

Half-day workshop

Co-Design with Community

Moves organisations beyond tokenistic consultation toward genuine, shared co-design with community.

Full-day workshop

Grant Smart

A practical, hands-on grant writing workshop led by Marg Cranney — participants leave with a real application underway, and the know-how to find and assess funding sources.

Flexible formats

Safe in the Storm

Creating inclusive Local Emergency Management Plans that account for family and domestic violence risk during disasters — for councils, emergency services, and communities.

Full-day workshop

Trauma-Informed Practice — In Action

Moves past trauma theory into practical, in-the-room application for staff who've already completed introductory training.

Half-day sessions

Vicarious Trauma & Workforce Wellbeing

Worker and manager versions, focused on sustainable practice and burnout prevention.

Live or self-directed

Supervision That Sees the Whole Picture

A live session or self-directed toolkit and workbook building intentional, evidence-based supervisory practice.

Get in touch for full workshop outlines and to design a tailored program.

Meet the founders

The people behind Grace & Grit

Marg Cranney

Co-Founder — Facilitator, Researcher & Trainer

Marg is an experienced curriculum developer, facilitator, and community sector leader with over 40 years across community development, education, and government, including as founding Principal of Marg Cranney & Associates (1998–present). She is a skilled grant writer with a long record of securing and delivering funded projects for Tasmanian and Australian organisations, and co-author of the Australian Government's PEPA Mentoring Guide. Her community leadership includes President of the Tasmanian Online Lions Club, project lead for the "From Acorn to Tassie Oak" website, 1st Vice District Governor for Lions District 201T1, and President of the Board of Management of Kids & Teens in the Valley Inc. Marg was named Derwent Valley Senior Citizen of the Year in 2023.

Tanya Brooks-Cooper

Co-Founder — FDV Practitioner & Trainer

Tanya is a family and domestic violence practitioner, trainer, and advocate with almost 34 years of cross-sector experience spanning child protection, family violence, youth justice, disability, and community development across Queensland and Tasmania. She is a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer, holding CORE, Overview, and Supervisor & Manager credentials, and leads Grace & Grit's Safe & Together training, family and domestic violence practice, and advocacy work. She also co-facilitates a Safe & Together Community of Practice. In April 2026, Tanya appeared before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, giving evidence on domestic, family and sexual violence — the only individually invited non-agency practitioner on the panel.

Beyond this list

Tell us the problem you're trying to solve

We also work alongside organisations on organisational change and reform, community engagement and co-design, team dynamics and culture, and program design, delivery, and evaluation.

  • 🔧 Organisational change & reform
  • 🤝 Community engagement & co-design
  • 🧭 Team dynamics & culture
  • 🛠️ Program design, delivery & evaluation
  • 📊 Research papers & reports
  • 💰 Grant writing & funding strategy
  • 🤝 Safe & Together training & implementation
  • ⚖️ Risk assessment practice & framework alignment
  • 📜 Policy & practice development
  • 📣 Media & communications planning

If it's within our expertise, we'll build it with you. If it's not, we'll connect you with people who can.

Get in touch

Let's talk about bringing Grace & Grit to your organisation

To discuss Safe & Together training, workshops, consulting, or a customised program — get in touch with Grace & Grit Training and Consulting.

✉️ hello@graceandgritconsulting.org.au 📞 Tanya — 0432 340 349 📞 Marg — 0402 039 856 🌐 graceandgritconsulting.org.au
✉️ Email us for the full prospectus