has been working in the field of violence against women for more than 30 years. This has included direct service and management roles with women and children’s services and perpertator intervention services. She continues to work with women and children who have been subjected to violence in their homes and provides supervision to domestic violence and men’s family violence teams. She values partnerships and collective responses to systemic and social injustices and offers development and facilitation of community coordinated responses. She is skilled in working with the local politics and taking care of people and process to bring forward meaningful outcomes. With ShantiWorks’ colleagues, she is stepping into challenging the systems and tactics of whiteness and racism.

is a social worker living in Melbourne and has worked in the field of violence against women in Victoria and Queensland. She has worked in direct practice as an advocate and coordinator of a domestic violence crisis support program. Lisa remains engaged in working directly with women and survivors of violence providing individual counselling. She is a facilitator and trainer and is passionate about creating a space for meaningful group and community conversation that allows for critical discussion and action.

is dedicated to ongoing learning, reflection, and professional development. Over the last 15 years she predominantly worked to respond to gender-based violence in Australia and Canada. She has studied social work and social sciences with a focus on intimate partner violence and forensic studies. Over time her practice has developed to consider care, support and safety for different members of a family or intimate partner connection. She is committed to reflective practice and values supervising practitioners and teams across the domestic and family violence sectors. Lindsay continues to learn and grow in these spaces alongside practitioners and is passionate about creating spaces for practice exploration and to stretch our learnings for the people we support.

is a Social Worker born in Sri Lanka, raised and currently living in Naarm/Melbourne. She has experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma, as well as within the Family Violence sector in direct practice, training and leadership positions. She is also a skilled clinical supervisor who provides supervision to students, social workers, and family violence practitioners.

Ashanti is passionate about reflective practice, allowing space for practitioners to dissect their experiences and critically reflect on systems and structures to enhance their practice. She is an experienced Family Violence practitioner with a strong commitment to victim/survivor centred practice and focuses on exploring the nuances of family violence risk and enhancing safety.

As a supervisor, Ashanti feels strongly about practitioner well-being, taking care of those who care for others.

Ashanti’s work is rooted in the principles of empathy, cultural safety, and anti-oppressive practice. As a woman of colour, Ashanti feels passionately about critically analysing oppressive white systems and dismantling racism within our society.

has been in the LGBTIQ+ & AOD community sector since 2008. Eshwar’s career in the sector started at the Malaysian AIDS Council in Communications and Media, and ventured into other areas of community work, mainly in Community Developement. Currently he works in HIV prevention program, in diagnosis and counseling. He has been stepping into Family Violence work recently, and offers debriefing and support for as part of the Shantiworks’ team since 2019. Eshwar also brings his creative aesthetics to ShantiWorks with his design and contributions to ShantiWorks’ website and newsletters.