Tassie grown, nationally adaptable

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. Our 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, not a generic framework imported from somewhere else.

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About Grace & Grit

A Tasmanian practice, built from lived and professional experience

Our work spans 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

  • 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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Family Violence Systems & Practice

Consulting on organisational FV practice, policy alignment, 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 — from frontline team leaders to senior managers and executives.

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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.

Workshop & training prospectus

Our workshops, at a glance

All workshops 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 holds Safe & Together Model CORE Training and Supervisor Training credentials, and leads Grace & Grit's family and domestic violence practice and advocacy work. In April 2026, Tanya appeared before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence and Suicide — 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
  • 📜 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 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
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