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Our Mission
To support the prevention of family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand through our combined lived experience lens by developing and delivering training and working with organisations to support systemic and sectoral change.
Our Goals
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Ensure Lived Experience informs all aspects of family violence prevention and response
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Achieve the safe criminalisation of coercive control in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Formally have the intersection between family violence and suicide recognised, recorded, responded to, and prevented
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Maximise whānau safety and wellbeing
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Measureably increase workforce capability
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Increase dignity enhancing practice
About Us
ECLIPSE ignites family violence awareness through the specialist lens of lived experience
ECLIPSE Family Violence Services ignites mindset change through family violence training which places the victim-survivor voice front and centre alongside sectoral expertise. This unique combination of victim-survivor lived experience, theoretical understanding, practice knowledge, and specialist sectoral knowledge brings family violence awareness to life.
ECLIPSE actively contributes to increasing sectoral and community awareness so we can all take national ownership of reducing family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. We strive to increase positive outcomes for victims and whānau experiencing family violence by actively increasing empathy and genuine connection and reducing unconscious bias and judgement. This results in safer practice and safer whānau.
All ECLIPSE training workshops are presented by facilitators who have lived experience, practice experience and sectoral expertise. We call this the Combined Lived Experience Lens. The dynamics of family violence are complex and having these important perspectives presented together helps participants understand the complexities of family violence in a much deeper manner. Learn more about our training.
Drawing on the combined practitioner-lived experience perspective, ECLIPSE has developed a unique model of practice that focuses on a whole of person approach to family violence response. Our Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept (PVIC) © helps explain the interconnected dynamics and impacts of coercive control. Learn more about the ECLIPSE approach.
ECLIPSE has grown rapidly since being formed in 2021 and as at mid 2026 10,000 social sector kaimahi have gone through our specialist workshops.
"Debbs has an incredible gift and all practitioners need to experience this training, it was so eye opening and empowering."
"Debbs' story was mind-blowing. Who better to deliver this kind of training but a survivor of family violence."
Family Violence Paearahi
"She absolutely nailed 'why don't you just leave?'"
Workshop Participant
Social Work Student
Our Story
After more than two decades working in the sector, Debbs Murray founded ECLIPSE Family Violence Services in 2021 after identifying most family violence training in Aotearoa New Zealand failed to include the important voice of lived experience.
ECLIPSE was formed to ignite family violence awareness through bringing the voice of lived experience alongside sectoral expertise.
ECLIPSE offers unique, targeted, and informed family violence training integrating victim-survivor lived experience, theoretical understanding, practice knowledge, and specialist sectoral knowledge. This knowledge is also used to advise and inform national process, and Debbs has offers strategic advice across family violence systems and has contributed to analysis, design, and workforce development across government and community sectors, including national strategies under Te Aorerekura.
ECLIPSE's point of difference is the combination of lived experience and sectoral expertise. These experiences are woven together to ensure practice comes to life through the realities of lived experience.