Repartee workshops: the right answers to get out of delicate situations in the office (and elsewhere)

Arranged in a circle, they are eight.

Seven women, one man.

Authors and cartoonists in children's literature.

A precarious status in a sector where power relations are particularly complicated to demine, not always easy to identify, in a universe supposed to mix imagination, smile, creativity.

They signed up for a two-day emotional and verbal self-defense workshop, at the Paris offices of the Charter of Children's Literature Authors, in the capital's 11th arrondissement.

The training is financed by the Ministries of Culture and Solidarity, explains Anne Clerc, general delegate of the Charter, who also organizes legal services to support its members.

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Learn to negotiate

Buttocks well wedged in his plastic chair, everyone wants to hear and learn the strategies to not let it go, to negotiate with an overly greedy publisher, to reply to a colleague stealing ideas.

"If we have chosen to be authors of children's literature...

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