Writing can change your life.
Writing helps us understand certain personal events, to order what is in our head and heart. By naming and describing our emotions, by reclassifying what is in disorder into sentences and stories, we can obtain clarity, an understanding of our inner story. Writing for ourselves offers a time to return to the intimate.
Designed as a workshop, this book offers you writing instructions based on 26 excerpts from writers' texts. Each exercise invites you to experiment with a particular form: letter, journal, story, haiku, style exercise, etc.
Imagined by Nayla Chidiac, a clinical psychologist who knows the benefits of writing in care, this resource book combined with a practical approach makes the therapeutic writing process accessible to everyone.

Nayla Chidiac is a doctor in psychopathology and a clinical psychologist. She founded therapeutic writing workshops at Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris. Author of the reference book for professionals, Therapeutic Writing Workshops (Elsevier-Masson), specialist in trauma and therapeutic writing, she is a trainer and EMHS (external mental health specialist) for the UN. She is a former expert at the Paris TGI. She has published five collections of poetry with LGR editions.

In 2012, she published “Bien gestionnaire son temps, pour vivre mieux” (Managing your time well, to live better) with Odile Jacob.

Friday, November 15, 2024, Beausoleil village hall at 6:30 p.m., free entry