Creative Writing and Poetry Course: Creating Your First Texts - Lausanne

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Creative Writing and Poetry Course: Creating Your First Texts

From 102 C$ /h

To put into words what one feels.
Inventing images.
Playing with sounds.

Poetry helps us to live better.
To get through crises, heartbreak, and bereavement.
To celebrate simple joys, to express our feelings for those who matter.

In this course, I propose an exploration starting from the student's desires: the first session is a discovery of poetry through extracts that will serve as a basis.
Writing exercises will help you dare to take the plunge: the blank page and the fear of doing it wrong are the first obstacles that we will deconstruct.

By reading the student's texts aloud, the goal is to make writing a living practice, one that is shared and not practiced only in solitude.

Extra information

Writing on paper seems fundamental to me for being connected to oneself and to one's text. No computer (at least not at the beginning)!

Location

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At student's location :

Around Lausanne, Switzerland

About Me

Newly graduated from ECAL/HEAD in cinema, I am a 26-year-old woman passionate about the arts, whether it be music, literature or cinema.

As a teacher for several years, I am committed to passing on an approach and know-how aimed at making artistic practice accessible to everyone, regardless of their age or experience.

Musically, I am curious and eclectic, but my preferred genres are rock, punk and metal.

Education

Music :
Trained in music at the conservatory of Asnières-sur-Seine (Parisian suburb)
3rd Cycle of Viola
3rd Cycle of solfège
Guitar: Student of Thibault Abrial (private lessons)

Academic background :
Baccalaureate with Highest Honors
Graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 2026

Experience / Qualifications

Guitarist for the band AOC (2019-2023): jazz, rock and folk improvisation
Bachelor's degree in musicology obtained in 2021
Guitar teacher since 2024

Age

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes

The class is taught in

French

English

Skills

Creative writing

Writing

Poetry

Availability of a typical week

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Electric guitar (rock/punk/jazz/metal) and introduction to playing by ear

102 C$ /h

By adapting to the level, I propose to approach the guitar through pieces chosen by the student which we will analyze by ear and work on together.

This teaching method aims to place the joy of playing at the heart of the process, allowing for a more engaging and accessible approach to theoretical concepts. Having trained at a conservatory and with 10 years of experience, I have explored a different teaching approach through playing in groups practicing free improvisation.
I was a student of Thibault Abrial (guitarist for Trust, Johnny Hallyday and Michel Berger) between 2017 and 2024, and I draw inspiration from his teaching methods.

Learning chords or theoretical knowledge (triads, scales, arpeggios) is done at the student's request.

The goal is to emphasize active listening, in order to understand how to play without reproducing a score: the use of tablature will be as an additional tool and not as a structuring principle of my approach.

Sandra

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Of British origin, I teach English for several years. Before that I worked more than 15 years as a copywriter in Paris and England. I have a good experience of the French language that allows me to target expectations.

* General English: grammar; writing; reading; listening and speaking.

* Conversation, pronunciation and vocabulary.

* Job interview; CV writing; cover letter

* Academic writing; speech; conferences

* Exam preparation: IELTS; CAMBRIDGE; FCE; CAE; BEC, BAC

* Business English for businesses.

Yves

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I make the difference by understanding that student success is also my responsibility as a tutor. This is why I put in an extra effort which exceeds conveying the knowledge about how a given math problem works. As a consequence my students enjoy our lessons on top of progressing academically.

I teach Math and German up to the last year of Secondary School. I work with teenagers and adults alike. You can rely on me in any situation, may it be an emergency or an exam where you first need to set up a plan, we can work it out together following my structured approach I developed by teaching over 1500 lessons.

My experience and a great sense for what my students need, make my classes effective and focused. I am very strong at motivating my students to achieve their goals, supporting and fostering a positive mindset towards any subject or task.

Cami

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Overcome your fears and unlock creative inspiration to finally get to the end of your writing project.

Let yourself be guided and finally realize your dream of writing.

➤ Overcome your fears.
➤ Discover the secret to writing 100% fun and 0% blank pages.
➤ Awaken this writer's flame that has been dormant in you for a long time.
➤ Build unwavering legitimacy and overcome the fear of failure, lack of time and procrastination that keep you from moving forward.

In short, put an end to the fear of writing! Isn't it difficult to be consumed by the desire to write your project and not succeed in doing it? Break forever the insurmountable wall that prevents you from writing today.

It is a matter of combining improvements in form with improvements in substance. For this, the sessions can for example take place according to your needs as follows:
a) Comments / proposals on the text that you will offer me b) Writing exercises based on a statement.
c) A series of precise and pragmatic recommendations and their application through style exercises.

Whether it is a novel, an essay, song lyrics, various texts, a biography or simply a report for professional or school purposes, it is about offering you elements personalized pedagogy:

- Study your text
- Build text, song lyrics etc
- Calmly polish the style
- Research and develop your lexical fields
- Differentiate between writing for oneself and writing for others

All this by combining theory and practice: Writing work from exercises then as part of a personal project.

During the sessions, you are guided in your writing project. The trainer accompanies you and teaches you the preparation method, gives you writing tools and helps you work on your style and your imagination.

The objective is multiple, including a reflection on one's own literary path, an introduction to the basic tools of style work and exercises on description.

Learning objectives:
- Identify your writing path.
- Mobilize your imagination.
- Learn and master the practical writing tools.
- Broaden its reflection on creation and professional and personal writing.
- Create and develop one or more projects.

Trained in a European Grande Ecole & Ivy League University in the United States, specialized and has been working in Europe and North America for more than 16 years in this field, in reputable international institutions , also intervening in forums and conferences.

- Locations: Geneva - Lausanne - Friborg - Neuchâtel - Montreux - Basel - Sion - Sierre - Morges - Bienne. But currently and until further notice, only by videoconference in accordance with national recommendations on Covid.

These sessions, for which you have asked me, also seem to be perfectly unanimous since they arouse a certain enthusiasm (and a certain enthusiasm). Indeed, they have the advantage of face-to-face sessions (ex: quality of the interaction), without its disadvantages (ex: loss of travel time) with additional advantages (ex: the entire session transcribed in writing on the chat). That is why, at your request, I continue to offer this option.

À la carte: evaluated and adapted to each personality.

Bastien

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Hello,

Currently in a master's degree in orchestral conducting at the HEMU in Lausanne, I offer courses in scholarship disciplines (music theory, writing and analysis) and music history (medieval times to the present day).

Whatever your profile, I will be able to adapt to your level as well as your objectives. From the first apprenticeship to the confirmed courses, the objective is to discover or solidify a theoretical knowledge, but nevertheless essential, on musical and historical notions which will come to complete and enrich your instrumental practice.

We look forward to meeting you soon!

Aude

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I have been publishing novels for around ten years. Holder of a master's degree in French literature, I have previously carried out replacements as a French teacher, given private lessons in French and mathematics up to baccalaureate level, given writing workshops and written content for social networks, websites.

I am therefore a writing professional and I am at your disposal, whether for academic support in French or to write documents (dissertations, dissertations, theses, administrative documents).

Classes can take place online or at your home, on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Orbe region (Switzerland) and Thursdays-Fridays in the Renens region (Switzerland).

Pierre

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Whether you want to develop your poetic sense or improve your language efficiency, whether you are looking to give more life to your oral interventions or to become more concise, I will make you work on your writing and your presence on stage to develop the oratorical style that suits you and allow you to express yourself as you would like.
Depending on your goals (conference, wedding speech, professional presentation, exams or more generally to finally express what you want to express), I bring you my expertise over a few sessions or over the long term. Depending on your profile, we will focus on voice or writing, preparation or improvisation, listening or peroration. As in any discipline, there will be training exercises, techniques to assimilate and automatisms to acquire. We will see together how to overcome the fear of the blank page, we will rework your texts, we will put them in our mouths so that you become aware of your ability to say beautiful, strong and striking things, in accordance with who you are, without trying to take yourself for someone else.

Océane

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Primary: Homework help for all subjects (math, French, history, science, etc.).
Secondary: Help with French and history.
I am a trained early childhood educator.
I'm passionate about French, my native language, and I've led writing workshops! I already have plenty of ideas to help you with your French or other subjects!

Jeanne

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Improve Your English with a Native Speaker

These lessons are designed for students aged 12–18 or adults who want to gain confidence and improve their spoken and written English.

I offer personalized sessions based on each student’s needs — whether that means:

Strengthening what they’re already learning at school,

Getting extra help with grammar, vocabulary, or writing,

Or simply spending more time speaking English in a natural, relaxed way with a native speaker.

The goal is to help students feel more comfortable communicating in English, improve their accuracy, and develop a stronger sense of fluency and confidence.

Qamille

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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION (IN BRIEF):
➤Unleash your writing skills and finally realize your writing project!
Novels, short stories, life stories, theses, songs or simple texts: these workshops help you overcome your blocks and transform your ideas into vivid and inspiring stories.

➤ Together, we will work to:
-Overcome your fear of the blank page and awaken your creativity
-Develop style, vocabulary, coherence and authenticity
-Creating characters, settings, and captivating storylines
-Explore your imagination, your emotions, and your flaws to turn them into a strength
-Alternating theory and practice with concrete exercises and personalized feedback

➤ Proofreading, correction, optimization of your texts possible.
➤Objective: to write with pleasure, progress faster and bring your project to completion.

➤Let yourself be guided: your dream of writing can become a reality.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
➤Exploring and sharing the pleasure of words, building the stories that inhabit you, developing your expression, deepening your creativity, exploring contemporary writing, proposing a novel, short stories, a life story, an (auto)biography, a fiction, an essay, song lyrics, various texts or simply a report, a thesis, a report for professional or academic purposes... these are among the objectives of these workshops to deepen or initiate writing and realize one's aspirations by prioritizing the pleasure of writing based on elements of personalized pedagogy.

➤Overcome your fears and unlock creative inspiration to finally complete your project.

Let yourself be guided and finally realize your dream of writing.
➤ Overcome your fears
➤ Discover the secret to producing high-quality writing that's 100% enjoyable and 0% writer's block.
➤ Awaken this writer's flame that has been dormant in you for a long time
➤ Build unwavering legitimacy and overcome the fear of failure, lack of time and procrastination that keep you from moving forward.

In short, overcome your fear of writing. Isn't it frustrating to be consumed by the desire to write your project and yet unable to do so? Break down that insurmountable wall that's holding you back.

This involves combining improvements in form with refinements in content. For example, concrete techniques for starting your text and overcoming writer's block, feedback/suggestions on your texts, writing and style exercises based on a prompt, a series of precise/pragmatic recommendations and their implementation.

That is why, if your manuscript is stuck and you don't know how to start or continue it, if you have all the ideas but don't know what form they should take, if you want to save time in the creative process: let's build the architecture of your story together.

Learning objectives include:
• Discover writing, build confidence, let your own literary voice/path emerge, and unleash your imagination
• Studying and constructing a text, song lyrics...
• Calmly refine the style and create consistency between form and content
• Research and develop your vocabulary
• Acquire techniques and know-how to convey your message both clearly and simply
• Differentiate between writing for oneself and writing for others
• Explore your creativity and develop your expression
• To construct a complete story by creating characters, settings, lively scenes...
• Acquire and master practical writing tools, always with a focus on simplicity/simplification and efficiency (both in content and form)
• Discover contemporary writing and diversify your practice
• Acquire narrative techniques to engage in long stories

So, start, resume or finish a piece of writing you have dreamed of for a long time if you want to write but don't know where to start; if you have a story but don't know how to tell it; if you love to write but have lost your inspiration; if you have a manuscript buried in a drawer and you are afraid of failing.

To achieve this, the first step is to unleash your writing and let go: strengthen your imagination, explore your inspiration, and cultivate your originality. Next, turn your weaknesses into a driving force for writing by exploring your wounds to better utilize them and adopt an effective writing method. Finally, master writing techniques and bring characters to life while crafting captivating stories, controlling pacing, and developing suspenseful plots.

All this by combining theory and practical/concrete applications: writing assignments based on exercises and then within the framework of your project.

During the sessions, you will be guided in your writing project. The trainer will support you in your written communication and offer tools, while helping you to work on and/or optimize your style and imagination.

Proofreading, revising, correcting and formatting articles, theses, etc.: these options are also possible.

Furthermore, these sessions allow one to improve one's written communication and to study the different methods to achieve this (email, letter, report, presentation...), both in terms of content and form.

➤ THE TRAINER - TEACHER CONSULTANT
A graduate of a prestigious French Grande École and an Ivy League university in the United States, he combines academic rigor with modern teaching methods. With over 18 years of experience in Europe and North America, he has taught at prestigious international institutions (both public and private), and regularly speaks in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Canada, as well as at various forums and conferences.

A recognized specialist, he offers personalized and accessible support based on active listening, a proven methodology, and tailored teaching methods. Whether through one-on-one sessions, workshops, or group training, his approach combines customization, efficiency, and professionalism for rapid, visible results.

➤ LOCATIONS, TIMES

✓ Areas of intervention:
-Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, Zurich, Neuchâtel, Lugano, Basel, Bern, Lucerne)
-Belgium (Brussels, Antwerp, Charleroi, Liège)
-Luxembourg
-On request: France (Paris, Lyon) and Canada (Montreal)

✓ Currently: sessions are primarily conducted via videoconference – a format favored by almost all participants, as it combines the same high-quality interaction with great organizational flexibility. All content, notes, and recommendations are provided directly through the dedicated chat. Advantages: time savings (no travel), flexible scheduling, comfort, and eco-responsibility.

✓ Languages: French / English.

✓ Results: noticeable progress from 2 sessions (2025 study).

✓ Special offers: gift vouchers available all year round – an original and useful way to please your loved ones.

✓ Schedules to be defined together, adjusting as best as possible to your constraints.

✓ 100% tailor-made program, adapted to each need.

✓ Why choose this training?
-Because you benefit from international expertise at the service of your objectives.
-Because each session is personalized and you will leave with concrete tools.
-Because the approach is not theoretical: it is lively, interactive and results-oriented.
-Because you benefit from a motivating, supportive and stimulating environment, which promotes confidence and rapid progress.
-Because in just a few sessions, you will already notice a tangible difference.

Joyce

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Learn Mandarin in a practical, engaging, and structured way tailored to your goals. Whether you’re a complete beginner, a student, or a professional working with Chinese clients, lessons are designed to help you build real confidence in speaking, listening, and understanding Mandarin.
I focus on functional language use, not just textbook learning — so you’ll be able to handle real-life situations such as conversations, travel, business interactions, or daily communication. For children and students, I incorporate interactive methods to keep lessons fun while building a strong foundation in pronunciation (pinyin), vocabulary, and writing.
Lessons can be adapted to:
Beginners starting from zero
Conversational Mandarin for daily use
Business Mandarin and cultural context
School support (reading, writing, homework help)
I am fluent in English and can support explanations in French if needed, making it easier for learners in Switzerland to follow along comfortably.
Each session is customised to your pace and learning style, with clear progression and practical results.

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