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We fill the gaps! We create whatever is needed to build connections between people who need help and people who provide help. We run programs. We manage events.

We started Healthy Tasmania to help people live the best life they can. We want to help Tasmanians improve their health, strengthen their life skills, to live in communities that are thriving economically and socially and be as passionate about Tasmania as we are. Healthy Tasmania works with community partners to build capacity, improve equity and inclusion, and promote pride of place; our motivation is to make communities thrive. We design, build and deliver projects to improve the life skills of Tasmanians. We write policy. We organise people. We find money. We’ll do the work, we’ll manage the process, we’ll fix your headaches, we’ll make you look good and we’ll share positive stories broadly to get your brand the recognition it deserves. Get in touch to find out how we will make it happen.

22/03/2026

Lucy has been running heaps of workshops with organisations in 2026. If you look closely at the photos from these sessions, you’ll often see people writing on bits of paper or sticking them on walls.

There’s a small reason for that.

Those bits of paper are deliberately temporary.

Architects often sketch in pencil for the same reason. When ideas feel permanent too early, people stop questioning them.

When an idea is written on bit of paper and stuck to a wall with Blu Tac - it's moveable.

Teams can test ideas, rearrange their thinking, and shape the structure together.

It’s a powerful way to explore and design things like governance, strategy and leadership before they become the solid structures that guide the organisation.

17/03/2026

Architects understand this well.

Design a pathway badly and people will cut their own line across the grass. They call them desire paths.

Winston Churchill understood this too - a structure doesn’t just house things or hold them up, it shows people how to behave.

Organisations work the same way.

If governance, strategy and leadership aren’t designed well, people will find ways around them. But get those foundations right and they quietly shape how organisations think, decide and act.

While I probably wouldn’t trust Lucy to design the foundations of your office building, plenty of workplaces have brought her in to help them design the foundations of their organisations.

If you want to find out more about Lucy’s foundational workshops - head over to www.lucybyrne.au

07/03/2026

“Hey Penny, want to facilitate a panel with a disability services CEO, a pet product entrepreneur and a director on a billion-dollar infrastructure project?”

Umm… yes please!

When Claire Connolly and the team from the Devonport Chamber of Commerce asked Penny to facilitate a panel at their Women in Business Summit on Friday, it didn’t take much convincing.

On the eve of International Women's Day Penny led a conversation about "Doing Well by Doing Good" with three incredible leaders of For Purpose Organisations:

Honni Pitt – CEO, St Giles
Anneke Van den Broek – Founder, Rufus & Coco
Bec Jhonston – Director People & Culture, Marinus Link

Different industries. Different perspectives. Plenty of shared ground.

And just to be clear - doing good isn’t the soft, fluffy end of leadership.

It’s the hard stuff. The decisions that shape systems.
The kind of influence that changes how things work.

Happy International Women's Day!

Photo Credit: Ian MacLeod Photography

05/03/2026

Pretty much anyone who grew up in Tasmania in the 90s, or even the early 2000s… and then moved interstate, probably remembers being paid out by their mainland friends just for being Tasmanian.

Until those same friends visited.

Back then people had to come here to get it.

Now? We're why they come.

This week Penny has been delivering Brand Tasmanian Story Foundations workshop around the state. In each room, Tasmanians have been unpicking the path that led to the thing they now do or create.

One thing stood out again and again.

The paths that build something extraordinary often feel quite ordinary to the people walking them.

Ideas that started at the workshop bench or kitchen table.
Local ingredients that became products fancy chefs love.
Curiosity and conversations that turned into something much bigger.

When those stories are told well, they don’t just promote a place, they help others understand the people who live and work there. Once people understand a that, they start to value it differently.

Our stories make us, make sense.

And we can’t wait to see more of them shared out loud.

23/02/2026

Just a couple of super profesh authors on a super profesh photo shoot.

16/02/2026

Does that mean I own Bridge to Terabithia?
Thanks, Katherine. So generous. (Not a book you ever forget!)

It’s also something Penny and Lucy are stepping into right now as they put their books out into the world.

Once you grab your copy, it belongs to you.

Get Lucy's book, The Silly Things Mum Says, here: https://www.lucybyrne.au/books
Get Penny's book, The Mic Drop, here: https://www.pennyterry.com/books

08/02/2026

Lucy, her book, and a box full of future conversations heading out into the community.

Get your copy here: https://www.lucybyrne.au/books

03/02/2026

When a book launches, there is a lot of talk about the finish line.
But this quote from Lucy's book - this is the beginning.

A simple thing that one of Lucy’s children said after school, years ago, sparked what's become a book that’s playful, educational and deeply practical.

One that makes preventative health feel familiar, accessible and part of everyday life, right where it belongs.

You can get your copy here: https://www.lucybyrne.au/books

27/01/2026

Holiday brain: So. Many. Ideas.
Office brain: Okay, which ones could actually become a thing?

We’re back in the office this week, sorting the serious from the slightly ridiculous.

14/01/2026

We love this quote! Makes us think about what's still incomplete...

If we want to be understood, maybe we need to share more of what’s really going on. If we want to understand others, maybe we need to do more asking.

As we head into 2026, it’s worth checking in: what story do we need to share in 2026, and what story do we need to hear? What assumptions are we carrying, and where are we wishing others just “got it”?

Healthier conversations - and the subsequent decisions - start when we make space for the bigger picture.

05/01/2026

We are this excited about 2026 and everything it’s bringing with it.

Lucy is ready and raring to help organisations build better foundations - starting with governance, moving onto strategy and then heading into leadership. If these basics aren’t solid, chances are your house is wobbly or about to fall down! She does NOT want that for you or your people.

Penny really wants to talk to you about the one thing she believes will make the biggest difference for you in 2026. Yes, it might look like a capacity problem. Or maybe a culture problem. Sometimes it even feels like a complexity problem. But nine times out of ten, they’re just symptoms. Penny suspects what you're likely dealing with is a resonance problem. She reckons it's easier to fix than you might think.

If you want us in your corner in 2026, DM us or visit pennyterry.com and lucybyrne.au.

30/12/2025

It’s nearly the new year, which means everyone’s trying to choose the “one thing” they’ll do differently next year. Got yours? Eat better? Work less? Move more? Finally, sort out the spare room? Fair enough. A clean slate is tempting.

But before you land on your big goal, here’s something worth asking:
Which bits of this year are you reflecting on, and what are you doing with that intel?

Many brains, annoyingly, are so quick to cringe and criticise that we miss a whole heap of things that might be better to focus on. The good bits. The buildable bits. The bits that would help us make real change next year. Instead, we can get stuck replaying the ‘bad’ bits on loop.

Penny sees this a lot when she’s training people to speak (or host) publicly. She’s always nudging them to watch or listen back to interviews, presentations or even a Teams meeting - and nearly always gets a "no way, that would be horrible/cringey/painful/insert adjective here." Maybe, but maybe not. The real thing (that everyone else experienced) is rarely the same as the thing you experienced. The gap between those two is where the interesting bits hang out.

And yes, she’s unpacked some useful reflection strategies properly in her new book (of course, this is a plug. Who did you think we are!?).

You can order your copy here: https://www.pennyterry.com/books

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Launceston, TAS

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.healthytasmania.com.au/

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Our Story

Healthy Tasmania was founded by us, sisters Lucy Byrne and Penny Terry who grew up in a rural community in Tasmania.

We call ourselves ‘community organisers’. We specialise in getting people working together to make good changes happen.

We work a little like the builders product ‘no more gaps’. While there are a lot of services available to help people and a lot of people who need those services, there is often a gap in the middle. We operate in the gap, working on a wide range of projects to make that connection happen; ultimately improving the individual, social and economic health of our communities.

We train, we create, we advise, we mentor, we strategise, and we speak. We show people and organisations how to feel valued and get others to value them, through effective storytelling.