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.
Our Core Training Pathways
Foundational Training
Pandora’s Foundational Training builds essential knowledge and confidence for practitioners beginning their journey in family and domestic violence work, grounding practice in safety, gendered analysis, and trauma-informed principles. Suitable for new graduates and practitioners with under five years experience.
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Our Professional Series deepens practitioner capability through applied learning, reflective practice, and evidence-based tools that strengthen accountability, collaboration, and system alignment. Suitable for practitioners 5-8 years of experience and those seeking skill refreshment.
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Pandora’s Advanced Practice offerings extend mastery in complex casework, governance and leadership, supporting experienced practitioners to innovate, influence, and embed excellence across family and domestic violence responses to victim-survivors and people using family violence behaviours.
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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.
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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.
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A dynamic group of professionals who, in their own unique and creative ways, are making a tangible difference across private practice, project work, training, and consulting.
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Emily Maguire Consulting
Amazing Consultant Resource! Are you looking to solve complex problems? Trying to find new ways to address common issues in a challenging political and economic environment? Do you need support to create meaningful, impactful strategies, programs, tools or resources? Pandora is delighted to introduce the amazing Emily Maguire – an experienced consultant with two decades of practice and leadership across government and non-profit sectors.
A Response to #notallmen
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.”