The brief version…
I am a sense-maker, experience designer, and professional listener.
In order to do these things I design and facilitate dialogue and curate and create content that generates insights and inspiration.
I am an interdisciplinary practitioner, drawing on over 30 years’ experience in the university, arts, and community sectors; including as arts manager, workplace trainer, community adult education manager, choreographer, events manager, and performer.
I am focused on work that is humane and generative of inspiration, learning, and resilience. I want to support people who are processing the effects of lockdown and Covid and who want to reclaim a sense of purpose in the ‘new normal’.
“Meredith is an incredible creative spirit. She embodies the light of creativity and lets it shine through in everything she does. Meredith has the unique ability to penetrate through the bullshit with a nudge, sly wink and an acerbically witty and knowing remark. She combines practical advice with wisdom earned through years of doing what she says - being a practising creative and sharing her insights and scars so generously with others. She is honey, nectar and the sweet prick of a bee encased within an enveloping flower. From one creative practitioner to another, Meredith sets the bar high and inspires me on many levels. If you want to stretch and test yourself in any aspect of creativity, give Meredith a call. She will get you questioning your thinking and opening new paths for you to explore.” - Paulina Larocca, Creative Catalyst
Some details…
If you are trying to make sense of how my portfolio of experience equips me to generate meaningful dialogue for you and your team then allow me to unpack it for you:
My experience in the arts gave me deep expertise in building, analysing, and using storytelling as well as using evocative creative content to make unique conversational experiences.
My experience in the producing and project management of arts events allowed me to understand how the imagination meets the intellect. I learnt how to map the creative against the pragmatic to design and produce compelling experiences and events.
My experience in the adult education sector allowed me the skills to engage with and design workshops suited to the unique needs of a diverse array of stakeholders.
My experience in events management gave me skills in experience design and events delivery. My conversations are small exquisitely crafted happenings – mini-events – and I draw on my events management and arts management background to deliver them to high professional standards.
My experience as a facilitator-trainer gave me skills in the design, delivery, and evaluation of workshops and training programs including those focused on creativity, innovation, and communication.
My experience in the performing arts gave me deep insight into the vagaries and challenges of working on creative projects and within creative teams. It also gave me the skills to be a compelling presenter and storyteller.
All of the above saw me shifting between different sectors, workplaces, and workplace cultures. It gave me a lifelong fascination with how people from different walks of life can come together to create, innovate, and collaborate. It set me on a mission to find ways in which people can harness their innate creativity, intelligence, and sense of community in order to make sense of their lives, individually and collectively, and to find purpose and meaning.
“After reading Meredith's work, my brain is often larger, and more able to stretch. My heart and my feet feel lighter. She's not afraid of going deep, quickly, briefly, strongly, and yet always somehow manages to deliver me to the other side of an emotion, an idea or an experience I didn't have language for. Often all three at the same time! I love the way she sees the world then leans in a shows it to us. Her dancing background moves through the words. Magic. Have a read, you'll see what I mean!” - Jax NiCarthaigh