Welcome to Creative France Workshops
The idea for Creative France Workshops came to me in early 2024 at a particularly difficult time in my life. My professional work has always been dramatic and outwardly directed: as an investigative journalist, as a writer working with prison inmates, as founder and director of organization that rescued dogs in crisis. The common theme in all my endeavors was justice, uncovering the truth, righting wrongs.
By that March, I was depleted. I had lost something that was closest to my heart. I looked out at the world, and nothing made any sense. I was forced to look inward to find the strength to move forward.
As a writer I chose words. Writing led me back to moments that defined me, that brought me to this point in my life. I soon discovered that many people were also feeling at a crossroads. Whether professionally or personally, they knew they needed to take a reckoning.
Thus, the idea of the memoir writing workshop, a supportive framework for finding the words to tell one's own story, came to me. Words not being the only way to find meaning, painters and photographers who live locally and in other parts of France began contacting me, wanting to share their craft as well.
Creative France Workshops in writing, painting and photography take place in the south of France where I have made my home. There is an authenticity here in the French Pyrenees, a lack of pretense, an extraordinary beauty, and a feeling of humility imposed by living surrounded by sacred mountains.
Welcome to this magical place and to a journey that will, I believe, lead you to your heart’s desire.
Welcome to Creative France Workshops.
Judith Reitman-Texier
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