Love Lettering: An Evening Exploring the Art of Billet-Doux
There’s something about writing—the way it externalizes our otherwise internal landscape of emotions, thoughts, and longings; the way it distills what’s essential and asks us to be deliberate with our words. Words hold power. The idea that if you can’t name it, you can’t know it points to how deeply language shapes our understanding of ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. And yet words can be slippery, elusive, even mercurial. More unsettling still: once written, they can be permanent.
When was the last time you wrote a love letter?
And what, exactly, makes a love letter a love letter? For over 5,000 years, humans have been writing them—reaching across distance, longing toward connection, tracing the space between sender and recipient. At the heart of the love letter is separation: a movement outward, a gesture made toward someone or something beyond the self—a world of to and from.
The power of the love letter is not in its delivery, but in the act of writing itself. Who might you write to? It need not be a romantic beloved. It could be your hometown, your kindergarten teacher, your aging beagle, or even your seventy-year-old hand.
In this one-evening online workshop, we will explore the art of the billet-doux—simply, a love letter. We’ll consider what it means to compose words for an object of affection, study the love letters of others, and write our own. Together, we’ll reflect on love in its most expansive and liberatory forms: divine, romantic, platonic, familial, and self-love. And we’ll ask: can writing to someone—or something—else ever free us, perhaps even from ourselves?
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Details:
When: Thursday, February 12th, 6–8 PM EST
Where: Online via Zoom (link sent upon registration)
About Kerry Lusignan, MFA, MA, LMHC
Kerry Lusignan is a psychotherapist, relationship expert, and the founder and director of the Northampton Center for Couples Therapy, which has supported more than 4,500 couples. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College, and her essays have been featured on the Gottman Relationship Blog—one of the most widely read relationship blogs online—including a number one–ranked piece. Her work has also appeared in The Guardian, Thrive Global, and Huffington Post. Kerry lives in the hills of Western Massachusetts and is currently at work on a memoir.
Pricing & Payment Guidance
This workshop is offered on a sliding scale, with the hope that financial circumstances do not stand between you and writing a love letter. We trust your judgment in choosing an amount that feels right—one that reflects both your current resources and your ability to support others’ participation.
As you decide, you might consider your present-day income and savings; the number of people who rely on your financial well-being; your access to opportunities and resources; and the relative ease or challenge of meeting your own needs.
By contributing what feels fair, you help create space for others to join and sustain a community in which love—for words, for others, and for the act of showing up—can circulate freely.
| Contribution Tiers | |
| Description | Price |
| Scribbler – Entry-level participation | $25 |
| Letter Writer – Mid-level support | $50 |
| Heartkeeper – Generous support | $75 |
| Muse – Sustaining the workshop and community | $100 |
Access & Participation
If you can’t attend the workshop live, you’re still welcome to participate at your own pace—the livestream will be recorded, and you’ll receive a link to revisit it along with any readings or resources. After registering, we’ll send you a link to access the workshop and its materials. During the session, you’re invited to post questions in the chat and engage in reflection and conversation with Kerry and fellow participants.