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Helping You Help Others
Pandora Projects is committed to supporting professional practitioners and organisations working in human services.
The Pandora philosophy is about opening up any limits we may have, examining our thinking and practices and using hope to inform our values as we develop and nurture our professional identity.
Helping You Help Others
Pandora Enterprise Projects is committed to supporting professional practitioners and organisations working in human service delivery.
The Pandora story is about opening up any limits we may have, examining our thinking and practices and using hope as a set of tools as we develop and nurture our professional identity.
Industry Experience
Tori Cooke
Tori has 25 years of clinical practice, governance, and senior management experience in Western Australia and Victoria.
With extensive experience as a family violence subject matter specialist in work
with victim survivors and those perpetrating abuse and violence, Tori works with organisations keen to ensure best practice in family violence service design and implementation.
Industry Experience
Tori Cooke
Tori has 25 years of clinical practice, governance, and senior management experience in Western Australia and Victoria.
With extensive experience as a family violence subject matter specialist in work
with victim survivors and those perpetrating abuse and violence, Tori works with organisations keen to ensure best practice in family violence service design and implementation.
Pandora Offerings
Training - Building Capacity
Tori meets with you to assess and discuss staff training needs. As a TAE trainer and Lecturer Tori is highly experienced in content development and delivers a bespoke training experience that supports practical workforce capacity building for your teams.
With a central focus on scaffolding learning, the Pandora training
approach begins with identifying current knowledge and skill gaps as well as current strengths.
This enables building on previous training investment as an important part of developing overall staff capacity over time.
Clinical Supervision
Individual and group supervision can make the difference in sustaining
the passion that brings people to the helping professions.
As a senior social work practitioner with over twenty years of practice, management and clinical supervision experience, Tori’s supervision is informed by the work of Tony Morrison and other well developed clinical supervision models. Pandora also has a network of endorsed supervision specialists and leadership mentors available for connection through The Hope Collective – an independent group of committed professionals in a range of specialist areas.
Training – Building Capacity
Tori meets with you to assess staff training needs based on contextualisation to organisational needs. As a TAE trainer and Lecturer Tori is highly experienced in content development that develops and delivers a bespoke training experience that supports upskilling your teams.
With a central focus on building workforce capacity over time, the Pandora
approach begins with identifying knowledge and skill gaps as well as current strengths.
The Pandora approach scaffolds from previous training investment as an important part of building overall staff capacity over time.
Clinical Supervision
Individual and group supervision can make the difference in sustaining
the passion that brings people to the helping professions.
As a senior social work practitioner with over twenty years of practice, management and clinical supervision experience, Tori’s supervision includes the work of Tony Morrison and the practical PASE approach.
Tori delivers supervision training for the Australian Association of Social Workers
and is is currently in the application process for the AASW Supervision Credential.
New Learning
Emily Maguire Consulting
Consultant Resource!
A Response to #notallme
As the 16 Days of Activism draws to an end, I wanted to address a common but divisive conversation starter: the phrase hashtag#NotAllMen. On the plane back from Albany after numerous discussions with amazing practitioners, I jotted down some ideas about how we can explore how this phrase, often invoked defensively, derails meaningful conversations about violence, accountability, and change. Read on for an important call for action that takes us in a different direction!
Pandora Discussion Paper: A Rogerian Lens: Exploring accountability in family violence change work with men
“Accountability is a cornerstone in men’s family violence change work, particularly when addressing the complex choice to use violence and abuse in relationships. The journey for each client toward accountability is often complicated by deep-seated beliefs, defensive responses, and for some, a lack of emotional regulation. Rogerian theory, with its person-centred approach, can provide a valuable framework for assisting men to move forward into accountability and change practices in their family violence change journey.”
New Resources
Emily Maguire Consulting
Consultant Resource!
A Response to #notallme
As the 16 Days of Activism draws to an end, I wanted to address a common but divisive conversation starter: the phrase hashtag#NotAllMen. On the plane back from Albany after numerous discussions with amazing practitioners, I jotted down some ideas about how we can explore how this phrase, often invoked defensively, derails meaningful conversations about violence, accountability, and change. Read on for an important call for action that takes us in a different direction!
Pandora Discussion Paper: A Rogerian Lens: Exploring accountability in family violence change work with men
“Accountability is a cornerstone in men’s family violence change work, particularly when addressing the complex choice to use violence and abuse in relationships. The journey for each client toward accountability is often complicated by deep-seated beliefs, defensive responses, and for some, a lack of emotional regulation. Rogerian theory, with its person-centred approach, can provide a valuable framework for assisting men to move forward into accountability and change practices in their family violence change journey.”
Community of Practice
Interrupt2Disrupt Coercive Control
Completed the Interrupt2Disrupt Coercive Control training and keen to continue the conversation with your peers?
Join the Coercive Control Community of Practice—a national collaborative space for professionals dedicated to addressing coercive control and advancing safety for victim-survivors. Only for practitioners who have attended at least one of the Interrupt2Disrupt coercive control training workshops, this professional community offers a platform to share insights, deepen understanding, and refine approaches in our work with men using family violence and family safety practice.
Guided by evidence-based frameworks and practical tools, CoP members explore strategies in recognising patterns of coercive control, disrupt perpetrator behaviours, and centering the focus on safe outcomes. Each CoP explores case discussions, shares concerns and solutions as well as resource sharing. Participants will build expertise in working with diverse populations, including gender-based violence, LGBTIQA+ identities, and culturally responsive practices.
Your registration and participation in the Interrupt2Disrupt Coercive Control training provides access to a movement of practitioners that challenges systemic barriers and promotes accountability in addressing coercive control. Together, we can interrupt harmful dynamics and disrupt cycles of abuse to create safer communities.
“Reflecting on practice and discussing issues in a safe learning environment with industry leaders is an enriching and exceptional experience! “