For many years, Yvonne Trubert (1931-2009) welcomed hundreds of people to her home in France in order to offer them support and comfort. Her method was simple: listen, understand and love without restriction. Her aim: to give new understanding and new energy to those who visited her. When we feel loved, we see life differently.
Among those people, she chose about twenty men and women from very different backgrounds to help her with this ever-expanding task. People of all ages, personalities, social origins, religions or the absence of religion, with ideas which could at one time have set them against one another, began to work together. Their one common denominator: the love they received and which they wanted to return. It is in this spirit that they created the association Invitation to Life in February 1983, and opened their first centre in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Thereafter, other centres were opened in France, and later, many other countries in Europe and elsewhere.
Conferences and interviews of Yvonne Trubert are available in mp3 or CD format at the IVI centre in Boulogne or by correspondence. A large number of these recordings have been translated into three languages.
Yvonne Trubert gave about a hundred interviews between 1984 and 1995, where the all the aspects of life are discussed through the length of universal love, giving them new significance and meaning: themes such as nature, education, silence, the couple, inner peace... have been gathered in a dozen books published by Editions L’Harmattan. They are translated in English, Spanish, Portuguese and available on fnac.com or rakuten.com.