About the course

Situations of mental crisis often involve a sense of deep difficulty, in which the mind's ability to conceptualize for itself what is happening within it diminishes.

The rehabilitation process includes the development or restoration of symbolic abilities that allow for observation of different parts of the self, connection to parts of forces, self-regulation, and naming of primary mental experiences that seemed to have no names.

One way to pave the paths of symbolism and conceptualization, as well as connecting to psychic parts of powers, is through an encounter with a literary text: becoming familiar with literary texts that resonate with a person's emotional state and provide words for it, as well as writing in dialogue with these texts or independent writing that connects to authentic psychic parts ("the true self" in Winnicott's conceptualization) and to the person's experience of themselves as having the ability to create in the world, thus connecting to parts of powers and competence.

The workshop "Because of Things That Have No Names - The Literary Text as a Therapeutic Tool in Rehabilitation Processes" - is a workshop in the field of bibliotherapy intended for professionals working in the field of rehabilitation, in which participants will be introduced to the field of bibliotherapy - emotional therapy through reading and writing, intended for work with individuals and groups, children and adults. 

Among the workshop topics:

• How to choose a text suitable for emotional work with individuals and groups
• How to work with text in restoration processes
• Writing in a rehabilitative process: its ability to enable expression, discovery, and creation of a "true self."
• Exposure to texts that express different mental states and mental struggles and work through them
• Thinking about candidates who accompany in the field, about rehabilitation processes and the rehabilitation alliance through an encounter with a text.

Workshop structure :

The course will be held face-to-face , on Wednesdays, from 11.9.24 to 25.9.24, at the Ono Academic Campus, between 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Participants :

Up to 25 professional employees with at least six months of experience who actually work in the rehabilitation frameworks.

Workshop cost :

275 NIS, Ministry of Health participation: 570 NIS.

About the workshop presenter: Dr. Lior Granot – bibliotherapy therapist and poet. Treats adults in a private clinic in Tel Aviv, leads writing and bibliotherapy workshops. Lectures in the master's degree program in social work "Integrating Artistic Means in Therapy" at Bar-Ilan University and teaches bibliotherapy courses for therapists as an intervention method in therapy at the "Sailors" school at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College and in various private settings.

Author of the book: 'How does the bibliotherapy clinic work? Writing, Childhood, Poetry' (Hoch Pardes and Bar Ilan University, 2021), based on her doctoral dissertation in the Psychoanalysis and Interpretation Program at Bar Ilan University.

Her other books: 'Naninah' [poetic prose] (Even Choshen, 2015), 'Shema and She Goes' [poem] (Keshav LeShira, 2012); 'Vaheshmeshem-Shemesh' [poem] (Helikon, 2010). For further reading: www.liorgranot.co.il