Shared Reading: The Ultimate Therapy - Softcover

Jan Raes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401476640 ISBN 13: 9789401476645

Publisher: Lannoo Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

• Shared Reading: The Ultimate Therapy puts forward the transformative power of Shared Reading
• Illustrated through concrete personal stories and fitting advice for anyone interested in taking up the practice

Those of us who live their lives in a context of vulnerability are in desperate need of accessible and efficient health care, a safety net that allows them to grow, learn and change. Powerful stories and poems can offer valuable help in that.

Shared Reading brings forth a process of change that follows a universal pattern, in a dynamic cycle of starting, growing, reaping what you have sown, learning and relaxing. Small groups get together to read literary texts, helped by a reading facilitator who reads aloud and engages others to reflect on the text. Through talking and thinking participants learn from each other and grow their inner space. By connecting to others they can experience powerful added therapeutic effects outside of a formal therapeutic context. Shared Reading: The Ultimate Therapy puts forward the transformative power of Shared Reading, illustrated through concrete personal stories and fitting advice for anyone interested in taking up the practice.

About this title

About the Author

Jan Raes is a psychiatrist and an executive company coach. He is a member of the core group of Timotheus and co-founder of training center EPECA. He is one of the founders of the readers collective Het Lezerscollectief, a network of reading facilitators that organises Shared Reading sessions in many locations and professional sectors and the organisation of reference in Flanders and the Netherlands. It is a partner of the International Centre of Shared Reading and works in an international development partnership with The Reader in the UK.

From the Back Cover

More than ever, people in a position of vulnerability need accessible and efficient care that helps them to grow, learn and change. Sharing the experience of reading powerful stories and poems can be an active power towards that goal.

The practice of Shared Reading kicks off a process of change that follows a recurring pattern, in a dynamic cycle of starting, growing, harvesting, learning and relaxing. In small groups, people read literary texts together with a reading companion who reads out loud and asks questions. By talking about the text and reflecting on it, people learn from each other and increase their inner mental-emotional space. By connecting with other people, they experience powerful therapeutic effects, outside the context of regular therapy.

Shared Reading. The Ultimate Therapy demonstrates the transformative power of Shared Reading, illustrates it with cases out of day-to-day health care practice and lays out practical advice for those who want to get started themselves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401476640
• ISBN 13: 9789401476645
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152