About BWK
Brokshi With Kencho is the official digital home of a heartfelt Bhutanese talk show where stories are shared with warmth, dignity, and a deep sense of community.
From Canberra, BWK brings together honest conversations about coming to Australia, building a life away from home, preserving culture, and staying connected to one another across generations and borders.
“Stories shared over tea can become bridges between people, places, and generations.”
Our Background
Brokshi With Kencho (BWK), a Bhutanese community talk show based in Canberra, Australia, traces its origin to a profound moment during His Majesty The King of Bhutan’s Royal Visit to Australia in 2024.
During the Royal Address, His Majesty recognised the sacrifices Bhutanese people make in leaving home to seek better opportunities abroad, while also sharing a hopeful vision for Bhutan’s future through Gelephu Mindfulness City. That message of learning, earning, and one day bringing knowledge and experience back to help build Bhutan left a lasting impression on many Bhutanese hearts.
For Kencho Tempa, that moment became the quiet seed of a larger vision. Nurtured by devotion to the King, love for the country, and faith in the Bhutanese community, it gradually grew into BWK: a platform where stories are shared over tea, wisdom is exchanged with humility, and conversations help connect Bhutanese across borders.
BWK is founded on the belief that every Bhutanese carries a story worth telling, a lesson worth sharing, and a responsibility to contribute to the future in meaningful ways. It offers a respectful and inclusive space where people can reflect on their journeys, speak honestly about hardship, celebrate achievement, and share the values, knowledge, and experiences shaped by life in Australia.
Our Vision
BWK envisions a thoughtful, welcoming platform that connects Bhutanese people across Australia and beyond through meaningful conversations, shared experience, and a continuing sense of responsibility to one another, to culture, and to Bhutan’s future.
Our Mission
BWK’s mission is to create a respectful talk-show platform where Bhutanese voices can share their journeys to Australia, life experiences, struggles, achievements, and hopes with honesty, humility, and warmth.
What BWK Talks About
BWK conversations remain people-centred. They are not limited to one type of story, but often return to the shared experiences that shape Bhutanese life in Australia.
Journey to Australia
The personal paths, sacrifices, and turning points that brought people to Australia.
Life in Australia
The realities of settling, adapting, working, studying, and building a future.
Identity and Belonging
How Bhutanese values, language, memory, and self-understanding are carried forward.
Family and Community
Relationships, responsibility, and the ways people support one another across distance.
Learning and Growth
Lessons gained through hardship, opportunity, education, work, and new beginnings.
Service and Contribution
Stories of leadership, entrepreneurship, civic responsibility, and giving back.
Our Values
BWK is guided by timeless Bhutanese values and a deep sense of responsibility to community and country.
Trust and loyalty
BWK values relationships built on sincerity, responsibility, and care for one another.
Cause and effect
The programme encourages reflection on choices, consequences, learning, and meaningful action.
Respectful conduct
Conversations are intended to remain respectful, humble, and considerate in tone and purpose.
Human-centred wellbeing
BWK sees progress not only in success, but also in compassion, belonging, and shared wellbeing.
The People Behind BWK
BWK is shaped both by the host who leads the conversations and by the production support that helps each story feel thoughtful, polished, and welcoming.
Host and programme lead
Kencho Tempa leads the conversations, shapes the tone of the programme, and carries the vision of BWK as a respectful, community-centred space for Bhutanese stories.
Camera, videography, photography, and technical production
Thinley Dorji supports BWK with camera, videography, photography, and technical production, helping each conversation look polished while preserving its warmth and sincerity.
The BWK Journey
BWK is already growing beyond its first season. The website is structured so future seasons can appear automatically as the programme continues to expand.
Visitors can move from the story behind BWK to the conversations themselves, whether they want to revisit Season 1, follow Season 2, or browse the full archive.
Season 2
Season 2 continues BWK’s conversations with Bhutanese voices across Australia, sharing experiences, leadership, community service, identity, and the journeys that connect people.
View SeasonSeason 1
Season 1 brings together the first twelve BWK conversations published on the official YouTube channel.
View SeasonArchive
Browse all 13 published BWK episodes in one place.
All Episodes