Grace & Grit Consulting and Training

29/09/2026

Everyone's hunting for Easter eggs in Taylor Swift's Patient Zero. We found red flags. 🥚🚩

Swifties love a hidden clue, and so do we. So we sat down with Taylor's new video, directed by Swift herself, with the Grace & Grit practice lens firmly on. Here's what we spotted.

🚩 The matching outfits. Dakota Johnson's character wears the same clothes and the same red lipstick as his first wife. Fans are calling it a mirror. We call it a pattern. His behaviour doesn't start or stop with one partner. It moves with him to the next.

🚩 The drinking fight. She's unwell, confused, and he tells her she's had too much. Making her the problem while he controls what's really going on? That's the heart of coercive control.

🚩 The car ride. He frightens her on purpose, then compares her to "her". Fear, shame and comparison, all in one scene, and every one of them is a choice.

🚩 The charming host. Everyone at the gala adores him. Charm is part of the strategy. It isolates her, because who would believe her?

🚩 The grey house. Taylor has said the house stands for a relationship gone cold. Beautiful, expensive, and utterly isolating. Money doesn't buy safety.

🚩 The tombstone. She isn't his first. His first wife is dead. A history of violence towards former partners is one of the most serious risk signs we have.

🚩 "Run." The ghost's warning is a powerful moment. But here's our Safe & Together Institute challenge: run can't be the whole safety plan. Leaving is often the most dangerous time. The real question is what the people and systems around her, and around him, are doing to hold him accountable.

Taylor built this video to be decoded. We hope it gets people decoding the relationships around them too: in friendship groups, workplaces and families.

If this video stirred something up for you, you're not alone:
📞 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732
📞 Tasmanian Family Violence Counselling and Support Service: 1800 608 122
📞 In an emergency, call 000

Created with grace, delivered with grit. 💗

25/09/2026

It’s grand final day for the 🏉 and you may have noticed lots of posts about how today is one of the most dangerous nights of the year for victim survivors - and we echo those worries.

We all play a part in family violence prevention - and not being a bystander and saying something to prevent escalations tonight might be your role. It’ll need some bravery - but we believe in you.

Reach out if you or someone you know needs support, and stop the conversations slips where you can.

In a series of focus groups, we asked whether violence against women by a man is always the man’s fault.

Concerningly, multiple respondents in a focus group of school students suggested that this wasn't the case, instead blaming factors such as intoxication or the women themselves. One student suggested "sometimes it is just the woman's fault".

This response shows why it's vital for children and young people to receive age-appropriate education on respect, consent and gender equality.

From programs in schools, to conversations at home, the more we talk about and role model positive attitudes and behaviours, the more we set up young people for healthy, respectful relationships.

25/09/2026

🚨 How our systems respond to non-lethal strangulation matters, and this training and learning is really important.

Get along, share it, learn about what to do and how to support our victim survivors.

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LESS THAN TWO WEEKS UNTIL THIS LANDMARK TASMANIAN FORUM WITH AN EXPERT LINE-UP

When non-fatal strangulation (NFS) occurs, the first response matters. For victim-survivors, early recognition, skilled care, clear documentation and coordinated referral can change the pathway to safety, health and justice. This landmark Tasmanian forum brings together leading experts, lived experience advocates and specialist family and sexual violence practitioners for a practical, sector-wide conversation about how we identify and respond to non-fatal strangulation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you work in general practice, ambulance, police, accident and emergency, family violence or sexual violence response, this forum is designed for you. General Practitioners can self-record CDP and a statement of attainment will be provided.

DATE: 7 October 2026
TIME: 10am - 2.30pm
VENUE: Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Road, Moonah

For more information and to see our expert line-up visit https://engenderequality.org.au/first-response-to-non-fatal-strangulation-forum/

To book you seat go to https://events.humanitix.com/first-response-to-non-fatal-strangulation-forum.
RACGP Australian Medical Association Primary Health Tasmania

14/08/2026

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24/07/2026

Squeal!

We had some feedback on www.graceandgritconsulting.org.au so I'm doing some upgrades!

Grace & Grit is a Tasmanian registered not-for-profit social enterprise delivering family and domestic violence training, workforce development, and policy advocacy across Tasmania — including island communities — and interstate.

28/06/2026

Something big is about to land in Tasmania. 🌱🌳

The Tasmanian Online Lions Club has built something remarkable — From Acorn to Tassie Oak, a free family violence resource website for Tasmanians, created by a team of committed survivors and supporters.

Safety planning. Coercive control. Trauma-informed support. How to be an ally. All in one place, built for our community, by our community.

It launches Friday 31 July and invitations are going out now. If you want one - or want to donate to this great event and website - let us know!
Proud to have played a small part in supporting this incredible community asset. 🩷



https://www.facebook.com/TassieOnlineLions

Born August 2023, TOLC is where service meets the modern world. We're breaking down the barriers that once made joining a Lions Club feel out of reach, no matter where you are or how busy life gets. If you believe in making a difference, you belong here.

15/06/2026

Big news for the sector this year 💙

Our Ways – Strong Ways – Our Voices: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Plan to End Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence 2026–2036 is Australia's first ever stand-alone national plan dedicated to ending violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children.

Developed in true partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, organisations and individuals, the Plan sits alongside the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children — recognising that real, lasting change has to be community-led, culturally grounded, and shaped by those with lived experience.

At Grace & Grit, we know that "one size fits all" doesn't work in this space. Plans like this one matter because they centre self-determination, healing, and the wisdom that communities have been holding for generations.

You can read more about the Plan here: https://www.dss.gov.au/first-nations-national-plan-end-family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/resource/our-ways-strong-ways-our-voices-national-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-plan-end-family-domestic-and-sexual-violence-2026-2036

A national strategy to end family, domestic and sexual violence against First Nations women and children.

14/06/2026

Welcome to our new followers!!

We post all lit about about family violence, systems work, community sector skills building and ADHD.. Tanya tries not to post about

We’re new and we are building a movement… thanks for joining us!!

We are offering training, research, policy work, one on ones, community of practices.. really anything that changes and supports your practice.

If you have ever sat in a multi-agency meeting and felt like everyone was describing a different family, you are not imagining it.

One professional is talking about parenting capacity. Another is focused on school attendance. Someone else is discussing housing concerns or mental health presentation.

Meanwhile, the perpetrator’s pattern of coercive control continues shaping the family’s daily life underneath all of it, and the survivor is often left trying to hold the pieces together across systems.

Real collaboration is not just about getting everyone in the same room. It is about using the same lens to understand what is happening to the family.

When professionals across child protection, housing, education, health, and courts share a domestic abuse–informed framework, things start to shift. Patterns become clearer. Survivor protective efforts become more visible. Responses become more aligned and less fragmented for families.

For many organisations, Safe & Together Model Core Training is where that shared language and practice framework begins.

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11/06/2026

You know you have a co-founder with ADHD when...

🔥 We've built THREE websites (who does that?? us, apparently)
🔥 We're submitting to support the TFSVA's work because somebody has to say the quiet parts loud
🔥 We're writing grants at 11pm
🔥 We're still doing the actual full-time job
🔥 The dog is walked (mostly)
🔥 The kids are fed (probably)
🔥 The w**e is drunk (definitely)

And somehow, in the middle of all of that — Grace & Grit is REAL and it's GROWING and we are so proud of what we're building. 🌿

Come find us:
👉 graceandgrittasmania.com.au — We Love Local Tasmania
👉 graceandgrittraining.com.au — training that actually sticks
👉 graceandgritconsulting.org.au — consulting that goes deep

Created with grace. Delivered with grit. 🩷🦆

(Marg is the grace. Tanya is the chaos. Together we are unstoppable.)

31/05/2026

🦆 Ever watched a duck on water?

Calm on the surface. Paddling like absolute legends underneath.

That's Grace & Grit right now. 😍

We're building programs, writing submissions, developing websites, chasing grant applications, and doing all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating something meaningful — and in between all of that, we're still showing up to our day jobs, our Tasmanian Online Lions Club commitments, and the rest of life too! 😄

Because that's who we are — two people who genuinely care about this work, doing it alongside everything else that makes us us.

It's busy. It's exciting. It's occasionally chaotic. And we wouldn't have it any other way.

If you're someone who cares about family safety, strong communities, and doing things properly — we'd love for you to come along for the ride.

Follow our page, share with your networks, and stay tuned. 🙏

Big things are paddling their way to the surface. 💛

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