to repair trauma, the idea of ​​a “plant lung” – Libération

To offer vulnerable women and victims of violence a safe and secure “space of their own”, we must create a universal refuge with no obligation to perform. An attempt to repair our bonds, a response to our collective apnea.

This article is taken from Special children’s author release. For the sixth year, Liberation takes on the colors and texts of youth for the Montreuil Book Fair which opens its doors this Wednesday, November 27. Find all the articles ici.

Stringing beads: (Figurative sense) (Families) Amusing yourself with trifles; waste time; not to get serious about it.

For eight years, I have been leading the “Repairing the Intimate” workshop with the photographer and author Louise Oligny, at the Maison des femmes de Saint-Denis and at Casavia in Pitié-Salpêtrière. These hospital structures welcome vulnerable women and victims of violence. We offer artistic and therapeutic workshops around jewelry, photography and drawing. We offer them a safe and secure “space of their own” to reconnect with themselves, with their deep desire.

We built this workshop on a thread, and it remains an ongoing project. We go at each person's pace, and we are in constant communication to offer them tailor-made support. It is an experience that we can carry out thanks to the multidisciplinary system of the Maison des femmes, there are the caregivers (doctors, midwives, nurses), lawyers, social workers, the police… A collective which allows you to multiply the looks and the action