Companies & local authorities
Reading helps us decide.
Train your managers to make better decisions in the age of AI.
Training, learning paths and talks.
Impact through books
Reading helps us live.
We have turned it into a method.
Reading does us good and gives us pleasure.
And much more than that: research shows the many benefits of reading for living better.
But books do not change our lives on their own: they still need a place, at a time when reading is declining sharply.
Our work: impact through books.
For 6 years, we have been nurturing the desire to read, putting the effects of reading to work every day, and measuring them.
You are…
We offer a range of complementary activities for organisations, professionals and individuals.
- Professional trainingManagers, teams, support professionals.
- Bibliotherapy programmesWorkshops and cycles for the people you serve.
- Thematic librariesComposed book by book for your space.
- An emotion indicatorThe KEI©, combining AI and human expertise.
Literature · Cognitive science · Impact assessment
500workshops delivered
+15,000people trained since 2016
12countries
35libraries installed
75projects
They trust us
To each their own path
And for you,
where to start?
Your particular context is our starting point.
Discover the formats suited to the people you serve.
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Institutions, charities
& care settings
Reading helps us become.
Support older, vulnerable, hospitalised or imprisoned people.
Workshops, bibliotherapy cycles and training for your teams.
Local authorities, charities, care homes, hospitals and prisons.
Support
professionals
Caring through books can be learned.
Train in bibliotherapy to support the people you work with.
What we do
Our expertise
in four parts.
A book, an intention, support.
For every need, a tailored experience.
Real needs, real applications
Your challenges,
our use cases.
Better decisions, support for the people you serve, a renewed taste for reading: discover how we can help you.
Why work with us?
Three steps.
For your impact.
A tailored experience.
The people you serve, your challenges and your context guide the choice of texts, programmes and formats.
The people you serve take part in a positive experience.
Reading, discussion, putting things into practice: you benefit from lively, positive support that gives everyone a place.
You know what works, and why.
Together we define what you want to observe in practice and the right evaluation methods, with the KEI© (Key Emotion Indicator).
Cognitive science & impact assessment
The KEI©,
our emotion indicator.
Key Emotion Indicator: a proprietary method to qualify what a book makes you feel, and to turn it into data useful to libraries, publishers and readers, designed to boost discoverability.
6 yearsof experimentation
7 countriesin Europe and North Africa
10 languageson the public platform
An emotional signature for every book
Each work receives an index from 0 to 10 and a score for each of the six emotions. A book stops being just a genre: it becomes an experience you can search for, compare and recommend.
This data layer adds to your metadata without replacing it, and opens up new ways to build your selections and bring your collections to life.
AI and humans, together
The index draws both on automated analysis and on the emotional reviews left by readers. Neither all algorithm nor all editorial: the two complement each other.
It is living data. The index is never closed: every reading, every review refines it, and a collection indexed today will be more accurate a year from now.
Tested in libraries, on a European scale
With Libraries of Emotions, our public platform for discovering books by emotion, the method is being tested with partner libraries and offered in ten languages, with the support of Creative Europe.
Books are our reference field. The method applies to anything whose value lies in what we feel: film, music, professional training.
Research with Ghent University Emotional algorithm and human validation Field experiments Research on the role of emotions in choices
Understand the foundations and the evaluation +
The scientific framework, the KEI© experiments and the results gathered will be presented with their sources, their scope and their limits. The support of Creative Europe will be identified separately from the research results.
Training & talks · managers first
Developing discernment
and the ability to decide.
AI speeds up production, but it does not train judgement.
That is why we offer professional training and talks to help your managers step back, exercise critical thinking and make sound decisions with calm.
Step back.
Decide with discernment.
Topics: cognitive biases, critical thinking, leadership and decision-making in the age of AI.
Understand your emotions.
Find your balance.
Topics: emotional intelligence, self-confidence, mental health and stress management.
Listen differently.
Cooperate more.
Topics: empathy, communication and relationships within teams.
9.5/10Satisfaction rate · all our training
72NPS, average satisfaction
100%of our training eligible for OPCO funding in France
Thematic libraries
Give every place
ITS OWN library.
Composed book by book for the people who live there.
A workplace, a public library, a care or living space: we propose an installation and choose the books according to your intention and the people who will discover them.
We also compose and install personalised libraries for individuals who want to give meaning to their home and make reading a daily presence.
60 to 120books selected per library
Themesby emotion or any other subject that matters to you
Our impact data
35,000readers reached
+25%in collection discoverability
A library is not a decoration.
It is an intention.
Bibliotherapy programmes
The books
that transform our lives.
A time to read, feel and share.
We design bibliotherapy workshops and cycles for charities, local authorities, libraries and care organisations. The choice of texts and the support meet a precise intention: encouraging expression, creating connection, supporting mental health or developing agency.
Build a programme for the people you serve ↗Our bibliotherapy projects in figures
15,000people reached
10countries covered
+90%of participants keep reading afterwards
Love for Livres Academy
Supporting people through books can be learned.
Bring bibliotherapy into your practice by training at your own pace, with a community of peers.
Join our bibliotherapy training programme ↗The first French-language training combining cognitive science, literary texts and facilitation methods.
Introductory sessions and supervision to complement the training programme.
7 yearsof experience
100+active practitioners in Europe, Canada and North Africa
The right book, at the right time
What if your next read
started with an emotion?
Explore the Love for Livres search engine to discover books according to what you feel or want to explore.
Discover our search engine ↗
Joy
Love
Sadness
Fear
Anger
Surprise
Which story will keep you company today?
Testimonials
What they say about
Love for Livres.
1 / 3
“We received very positive feedback from our managers after the talk, which shows how interested our people are in these topics.”
Hoai-Thu Millot, HR Project ManagerGIE HR, AXA · talk on emotional intelligence for managers
“This training, which combines the power of reading, and of writing too, with insights from neuroscience, has brought an exponential creative boost to my coaching sessions and support workshops. I highly recommend it to all book lovers and, more broadly, to all professionals who support others.”
In-house coach
HR department of a major public institution · Love for Livres Academy
HR department of a major public institution · Love for Livres Academy
“We would very much like to continue: the children really make this space their own and find genuine interest in it.”
Andy Bernadoth, head of educational services
Association Jean Cotxet · bibliotherapy workshop cycle with IM'PACTES
Association Jean Cotxet · bibliotherapy workshop cycle with IM'PACTES
Media & press
In the media.
Op-edPourquoi la bibliothérapie séduit de plus en plus de publics
5 January 2026
Céline Mas explains what bibliotherapy is and why it is reaching new audiences.
Read the op-ed (in French) ↗
France 2 · TélématinThe search engine that finds books by emotion, on air
17 November 2023
The Love for Livres search engine presented on France 2's morning programme.
Broadcast on Friday 17 November 2023
Love for Livres, le réseau social qui donne des conseils de lecture en fonction de vos émotions
16 January 2021
How to choose your next read based on what you feel.
Listen on France Inter (in French) ↗Our story
Reading frees and connects.
It is our passion, our work and our commitment.
Love for Livres is an innovation studio co-founded by Céline Mas and Omar Peraza Delgado.
From our earliest years, reading has been decisive in our lives. It has allowed us to fulfil ourselves, and we now want to share all its benefits with others.
Today, reading is under threat: bookshops are struggling, some publishers are disappearing, libraries are trying to grow their audiences. Other media are taking the place of books. Attention is fractured, reshaped by AI and technology. Readers do not always know what is available. Many of them no longer find their way.
To reverse the trend, we have brought together at Love for Livres skills in literature, cognitive science, technology and impact assessment, to make reading a useful, lively and accessible experience.
Céline Mas set out this conviction in one of her books, La lecture pour réussir sa vie professionnelle (Dunod, 2025).
Making people want to read opens up possibilities for everyone. Reading is a source of life and of projects. It supports learning and creativity. It counters social determinism.
It also means defending a society where we can slow down, take care of ourselves, understand other points of view and debate freely.
For us, keeping reading alive while it is weakening is a decisive challenge, at once human, educational, social and democratic.
Resources
To understand, choose
and take action.
Pointers on training, bibliotherapy and the books that support you.
What is bibliotherapy?
Discover the principles of support through books.
Read the first pointersHow can you bring books into your practice?
Explore the training paths and options.
Discover your pathWhat are the superpowers of reading?
Find our empirical research and illuminating articles.
Explore the dataA few pointers to start with
What is bibliotherapy?+
We define bibliotherapy as a method of support and of caring for oneself and others through books, drawing on the contributions of cognitive science to reveal the powers of fiction. It can take the form of a workshop, a cycle or one-to-one support.
Do you need to be a keen reader to take part in workshops?+
No. The support can rely on short extracts and reading aloud. The choice of texts and the way sessions unfold are adapted to the audience, to their relationship with reading and to what they want.
How do I choose a training course for my team?+
We start from the situations you want to change: decision-making, communication, cooperation or managing emotions. A conversation helps us clarify the audience, the objectives and the format before we propose a programme.
Can a library be composed around a theme?+
Yes. For example emotions, leadership, care, peace, hospitality, biodiversity or the imagination: the theme is chosen according to your space and the people you serve. The selection is composed book by book, with a shared intention.
Your next project
What would you like to make possible?
With reading and cognitive science.
Draw on books and cognitive science to make better decisions, support the people you serve or rekindle a taste for reading. Let's build together an answer suited to your needs.
A training course.
A programme.
A library.
Your next step.