Bridget
Bridget, currently the only Irish Aurovilian, has been involved in many activities. These range from town planning to village work to helping to take care of Pitanga Cultural Centre. What made her come to Auroville and what challenges has she had to face?There are defining experiences in our lives that help shape
us. Being an aid worker just after the genocide in Rwanda was one of those for
me as it gave me the gift of being completely shaken up. I found I was not as
strong inside as I would have liked to be and my perceptions of world order
cracked. I was at a point in my life where I had left a career in marketing and
communications and moved back to the west of Ireland, where I had grown up. I
had just begun to renovate an old house and run a guest house with one of my
sisters. It was a fertile, supportive ground on which to start an inner journey
and after Rwanda it was clear to me that I needed to work on myself. So I spent
seven happy years exploring my in...
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