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Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time
Where bibliotherapy and therapy meet
What happens in the space between a person and a story?
Long before stories were studied, they were lived.
People told stories to help them cross thresholds — to understand loss, to imagine change, to give shape to experiences that had no language yet.
Bibliotherapy grows from this ancient human intuition: that stories are not only something we read.
They are spaces where we encounter ourselves.
Throughout this program, we will explore how literature and psychological processes interact, and how this meeting can become a meaningful and transformative space.
April 7, 2026
Assignments
A Text That Found Me
Think of a text that was meaningful for you at a certain point in your life. Return to it (if you don’t have it at hand, you can just write down a certain scene, a piece of the story or the poem that you remember the most).
What part of you - at that time - was reflected in that story?
If this is a story - you can create an imaginary dialogue with the main character.
If this is a poem - try adding another stanza of your own.
Write:
What stayed with me?
What did I feel, even slightly?
Continue or respond to the text creatively.
Gently reflect: does it echo something in my world?
You are not asked to understand the text.
Only to stay with the encounter.