DU Animateur d’ateliers d’écriture

Since 1994, Aix-Marseille Université has developed a training programme for writing workshop leaders. It takes place every year from September to June. Classes consist of 12 to 20 students.

The objectives of the training are:

- To provide training in animation

- To develop reading skills for analysis

- Developing innovative writing skills

- Reflect on and question their experience as presenters gained in the field as part of the 100 hours of practical training.

This training course is aimed at:

• facilitators of writing workshops • anyone who would like to add writing workshop facilitation à their usual activities, professionals working in various structures:

- educational establishments, primary, secondary, higher education; adult continuing education establishments

- cultural facilities: médiathèque, cinémathèque, théâtre, leisure centre, holiday village etc.

- social facilities: day centres, night shelters, teenagers' homes, various types of hostel, etc.

Medical facilities: hospitals, clinics, day hospitals, psychiatric and psychological follow-up and support facilities, follow-up care units, etc.

- reception facilities for people with or without dementia, maisons du Bel âge, etc.

Please note that this DU is only open to continuing education and apprenticeships.

Admission by application and interview

The administrative application file can be downloaded from e-candidat during the UFR ALLSH registration campaign on the address that will be given to you when you make contact with the teaching team.

After reviewing the applications, successful candidates are notified by email and an appointment is made for the interview.

The admission interview takes place in June. It lasts around twenty minutes and begins with the candidate presenting a book of their choice. This presentation is followed by a discussion with the panel. The results are sent by email and e-candidat at the end of June.

Those whose applications are accepted must confirm their registration on e-candidat and by submitting a cheque for the registration fee and an administrative file for registration at the university by mid-July at the latest.

A pre-start session in mid-July (by videoconference) brings together the entire intake.

The course begins in September, with a residential weekend.

It is difficult to become a writing workshop leader without having had experience of writing in groups, if possible under a variety of conditions, and without having had some writing practice and experience of leading groups in any field.

In addition, you should be aware that it is very rare to earn a living from facilitating writing workshops at the time you start facilitating.

As a result, in order to apply for a job, you need to justify:

• of participation à workshops of écriture,

• of a personal practice of écriture,

• from experience of leading groups,

• of a realistic project for leading writing workshop(s)

You will also need to be available one day a week (Monday) from September to June on the Saint-Charles campus (3 place Victor Hugo - 13003 Marseille) + one weekend in September + occasional meetings depending on local cultural events.

● Training in facilitation: learning how to construct a project to suit an audience, proposing instructions, giving feedback on texts, learning how to manage groups, finding solutions in the event of a blockage, evaluating the results of the workshop, questioning your facilitation practice, writing an assessment of your activity as a facilitator.

● Training in reading: learning how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read, how to read.

● Train à reading: who says écrire says lire. To confront à the reading of texts most of the time contemporary, sometimes difficult to access, to better understand how they are made and what is their impact on the reader. The aim is also to confront the need, as a facilitator, to be able to read aloud in public and to question the place of the body in literary creation in workshops. ● Training for writing: being a facilitator and writing requires you to be committed to writing, as it is only fair that you should be able to practise what you ask others to do. To develop critical skills with a view to working on one's own texts, their rewriting and feedback on participants' texts.

● Practical course: using what has been learnt in the course by leading writing workshops with a variety of audiences. Report on this practice and be able to develop it further.

● Practical course: using what has been learnt in the course to run writing workshops with a variety of audiences.

Courses are taught by a permanent teaching team and occasional guest lecturers.

Training hours: 400 hours

● Theoretical training (200 h): Theoretical knowledge is always based on practical experience. Assessment is based on occasional work during the course and an end-of-year dissertation: this assessment is formative, and all work submitted may be repeated if necessary.

This is a formative assessment, and all work submitted may be repeated if necessary.

● Tutored project (100 h): activities based on trainee profiles and local cultural activity: lectures, participation in festivals, group work, etc.

● Practical training: (100 h) leading one or more workshops, as chosen by each trainee.

The jury at the end of the course is made up of teachers from the DU. The diploma is validated on the basis of the above three components.

The diploma is validated on the basis of the above three components

Training coordinator Ms Corine Robet (corine.robet@univ-amu.fr)

Lecturer Ms Cécile Vergez-Sans (cecile.vergez-sans@univ-amu.fr)

Lecturer Mr Jean-Marc Quaranta (jean-marc.quaranta@univ-amu.fr)

For registrations:

https://allsh.univ-amu.fr/fr/formation/formation-continue/campagne-inscription

Contact the continuing education departments

https://allsh.univ-amu.fr/fr/formation/formation-continue