Facilitators
PARt facilitators are experts in domestic, family, and sexual violence. They bring a wealth of knowledge, skills, and frameworks to their work, grounded in years of experience across the legal system, specialist family violence services, social work, and community sectors. Many facilitators also draw on lived experience, offering insight that is both personal and powerful. Together, they ensure that PARt training is evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in real-world practice.
Holly Supple-Gurruwiwi
Aboriginal Advocate | Educator | Cultural Strategist
Holly is a proud Aboriginal woman, an early years educator, and a lived experience specialist in Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence (DFSV), based on Country in the Northern Territory. With a strong commitment to advocating for First Nations women and children, Holly works to amplify survivor voices and is dedicated to creating culturally safe, alternative pathways to safety and healing.
Drawing on both her cultural knowledge and personal experience, she collaborates with local communities, government, and non-government organisations to ensure First Nations families have access to the support they need—free from violence, harm, and systemic discrimination.
Holly’s work is deeply rooted in the belief that human kindness has the power to transform lives. At a critical point in her own experience of violence, a Northern Territory police officer saved her life. That same officer later introduced her to Dr Chay Brown, which led to Holly sharing her story through the PARt Project.
Today, Holly is a facilitator specialist for the PARt Project. She has contributed to new recruit training for NT Police and continues to provide generous learning opportunities for frontline workers by sharing her personal story and cultural insight. Holly is a dedicated advocate for transforming the DFSV response system, and believes education and truth-telling are powerful tools for change.
Dr Chay Brown
Dr Chay Brown is a social scientist, researcher, and family violence practitioner with over a decade of experience in the prevention of domestic, family, and sexual violence. Born and raised in Mparntwe/Alice Springs and surrounding remote communities, she brings both lived experience and academic expertise to her work.
Chay holds a PhD in Social Sciences and Indigenous Studies, and a Master’s in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development, both from the Australian National University. Her research has shaped violence prevention policy and practice nationally and in the Northern Territory, including co-authoring Australia’s National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children and the NT’s Hopeful, Together, Strong prevention framework.
Chay’s work spans research, evaluation, policy, and practice. She has led studies for ANROWS, UN Women, and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, and works closely with Aboriginal women’s organisations to co-design culturally safe responses to violence. She is the developer of the Prevent. Assist. Respond. training for frontline workers and has delivered programs in prisons, hospitals, and remote communities.
Chay is widely published, has lectured at Charles Darwin University, and currently serves as Managing Director of Her Story Mparntwe and the Family Violence Prevention Manager at Tangentyere Council.
Zara O'Sullivan
Zara O’Sullivan is the Managing Solicitor at the Domestic Violence Legal Service (DVLS) in Darwin and a co-facilitator and steering committee member of the Prevent Assist Respond Training (PART).
She brings a decade of experience across Queensland, the ACT and the Northern Territory working with people impacted by domestic, family, and sexual violence, with a strong focus on trauma-informed, person-centred legal practice.
Zara is committed to treating victim-survivors with dignity and compassion, and to ensuring responses are grounded in equity, empowerment, and cultural safety. Through PART, she supports frontline workers, organisations and communities to prevent violence, respond safely, and recognise systems abuse and misidentification. She is a strong advocate for increased funding, systems improvement, and law reform to better support people experiencing violence.
Maggie Aylmore
Maggie Aylmore is a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) specialist, currently employed by the Tangentyere Council as the Prevent Assist Respond Training (PARt) Coordinator, based in Mpartnwe, Alice Springs. Maggie is responsible for the delivery of the PARt project across the Northern Territory. In this role, Maggie seeks to support Police and Healthcare Workers understanding of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV) in the Northern Territory, by amplifying the voices of victim/survivors and fostering a deeper, more empathetic, culturally-safe approach to working with victim/survivors of DFSV, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and other communities that experience marginalisation.
Prior to her work in the Northern Territory, Maggie worked in the international humanitarian sector for five years, most recently, working for the UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office, coordinating the monitoring and evaluation of a large, multi-donor, multi-partner Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) programme across 6 Pacific Island Countries. The EVAWG programme worked alongside the Feminist Movements and Civil-Society Organisations to strengthen access to services for women and children to recover from DFSV as well as implementing primary prevention programmes across faith, community and education sectors. Maggie co-coordinated the consultation process of developing Fiji’s National Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women and Children (2023-2028).
Maggie holds a Masters in Social Work, a Bachelor of Global Studies, majoring in Aboriginal Studies and Climate Change and a graduate certificate in Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE). Maggie’s social work experience is broad, and includes working with people seeking asylum in Australia, women and children affected by DFSV, working with young people, including young people experiencing homelessness and children who have experienced child abuse.