“Marilia’s writing lab spurs my daily creativity in ways I never expected. I’m delighted to have more clarity about my intentions, with fresh ideas on how to live and work. Most of all, the rich exchange of sharing spontaneous writing is a treasure. Kind listening and warm encouragement go a long way to make writing both joyful and rewarding.”

Margaret KachadurianCo-Founder of Montana Mindfulness Project in Bozeman, Montana

“I really appreciate how Marilia makes the Lab a group experience where it feels safe to write from a place of freedom and vulnerability. She offers inspiring prompts for our writing and maintains a structure that supports good conversation and writing time. I thoroughly enjoy my time at the Writing Lab!”

Travis BurdickWriter and Music Teacher at a Middle School in Livingston, Montana

“I highly recommend The Lab. Academic writing often gets stuck, and this can happen not only to inexperienced students. It also happens to professors and scholars who have been publishing for a long time. And why does it stutter? We need to listen to what we have to write, and if we listen to it through the ears of The Writing Lab, absolutely in tune with sensitivity, creativity and the quality of what we can produce, we start to feel very safe.”

Raquel Abi-SâmaraProfessor of Literature at the University of Macau

“I wish I had met the LAB sooner. Whole sections of my dissertation began to unravel. With the LAB, I finished my Ph.D., and I can't get over how happy I am.”

Marina IvoMarina Ivo (Doctor in Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity, PUC-Rio)

“When everything was stuck or seemed completely lost, my participation in the LAB offered me a kind of opening, or a path, or a listening and a voice at the same time. And for that I thank you very much. Long live to the LAB and your listening ear!”

Sheyla Miranda (Doctor in Literature and Translator)

“Immense gratitude, Marília! For the liberating classes.”

Cláudia Luna, Lawyer

“The Lab is a place that releases synchronicities and dreams. At each encounter, the world changes places. Really moving Lab - an ancestral prayer.”

Tyr Peret, Psychologist and Translator

“Thank you for giving me a piece of myself that I didn't know existed: WRITING.”

Alexia Lopes

“With Marília's baton, the unconscious moves forward, like seawater bubbles in waves against the stones of the paper.”

Renato Santos, Teacher and PhD student at Universidade de São Paulo

“The Lab makes writing a way of listening to myself and others. Several voices intertwine to form a network - the voids are full and there are many other discoveries.”

Gisela Domschke. Curator, PhD student at Universidade de São Paulo

“The Lab is an affective place that allows me to make a decisive trajectory for my personal evolution through immersion in reading, listening and producing texts. It's a place for building knowledge. I highly recommend it.”

Maria de Fátima Ferreira Peret, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, Member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis/AMP and Member of the Brazilian School of Psychoanalysis/EB

“The Lab is a liberating and emancipatory methodology. It encourages the protagonism of personal narrative without separating it from the collective, it strengthens the feeling of belonging and common unity.”

Jacqueline Baumgratz, Pedagogue, Artist and Storyteller

“The Lab is one of the ideas to postpone the end of the WORLD.”

Olanise Santos, Engineer, Master student at University of Brasília

“I am very moved by the texts I wrote and listened to, and I can't even say it. I just thank you so much...”

Leda Maria Fonseca Bazzo