Meet the Facilitator

Bridget Brandon: The Founder of Storyworks

"My passion is bringing people forward, allowing them to step into their own creativity, their own life purpose and building up a sense of community," says Bridget Brandon, founder of Storyworks

Bridget Brandon (B.A. Dip Civ. Sorbonne) is fuelled by a strong desire to bring out the creativity, fun and adventurous spirit in others.

In her own life she maintains a balance between inner work, through meditation, and outer work, through creativity. She has lived in a monastery, been a theatre performer and raised a child.

Bridget Brandon (B.A. New Zealand Dip Civ. Sorbonne) is an artist, a teacher, an actor, an entrepreneur, a mother. She has pursued a meditation practice for 20 years. Her working life has led her around the world from New Zealand as the Coordinator of Community Volunteers, to Paris in the diplomatic corps.

From 1980-1992 Bridget co-founded and directed the Drama Action Centre in Sydney, a unique drama training programme for professionals and non-professionals. She has taught and performed extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

The Story Behind Storyworks

What is the story behind Storyworks? Bridget Brandon, founder of Storyworks, tells it this way:

"In 1992 both my parents died within five months of each other. One of the things that hit me hard was realizing how little I really knew about them, what their dreams and hopes were, what gave them joy, what their childhood was like, how they handled challenges. Now, their stories were gone forever.

In 1996 I had major brain surgery. Face to face with my own mortality, I realized that my stories, too, would be lost if I didn’t uncover and share them. For several years, I had lived in a meditation retreat site studying Eastern philosophy and learned about the importance of contemplating the purpose and value of my life that is contained in the little and big stories that are happening all the time."

This prompted Bridget in 1998 to establish Storyworks as a way of bringing people together to tell the stories of their life allowing them to recognize and respect everyone’s unique creativity and purpose.

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Last Modified: November 27, 2007