“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. Librandi’s companionable listening (with her admirable academic experience) is acute, sensitive, generous and extremely attuned. An absolute ear inviting us to make the crossing confidently.  And we start to feel very safe.” -Raquel Abi-Sâmara (Professor of Literature at the University of Macau.)

Do you want to write a book, a thesis, a dissertation, an article, an essay? The Lab one-on one session helps you achieve your professional goals.

For faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. (High schoolers are also welcome; please contact us, and we will plan accordingly.)

The Writing Lab Way 

The Writing Lab is a practice that combines techniques of meditation with creative processes in academic writing. As an author and an academic adviser, Dr. Librandi guides the writer to unravel their own style and the organic design of their text. Instead of forcing writing to an external rigid format, the writer learns how to listen to the body of their text, respecting its form and then adapting the required format to the text, and not the opposite. It is a process that goes from inward to the outward. 

Can we write an academic text without being subjugated to its weight? Are there creative and meditative ways of writing a scholarly text?

At the Lab, we experiment with different and effective ways of writing such as: dynamics of focused description, narrative braids, free association,imagery  and attentive listening through our dialogue, establishing a safe and curative space for writing to grow.

Session Features

• 60-minute sessions take place live online via Zoom.
  • In person option: If you live in Bozeman, Montana, we can meet at the lovely and cozy Royal Bookstore (521 Peach Street).
• ​Every session includes a brief meditation to help you generate new pages.
• The Lab is offered in English or in Portuguese.
• Please bring a pen and a notebook.

“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” -Natalie Goldberg