The Universe of Safety: Making fear retreat: The emotional saga

Preciada Azancot, creator in human sciences of MAT (the Metamodel of Analysis that Transforms), and in oil painting of the pictorial trend Transformational Expressionism, was born on 25 March 1943 in Fez where her parents were refugees from persecution by Nazis, Pétainistes and Franco supporters because her father Moisés H. Azancot was a Grand Master Mason (33rd degree of the Grand Lodge of France), and had written books and articles denouncing Nazi barbarism and was therefore wanted for execution by the Nazis and their allies. After the war, she lived in Casablanca until 1948 when her parents, both natives of Tangiers, took her to live there. She was brought up in the international Tangiers of the period until her marriage in 1962 when she moved to Rabat to live with her husband, a senior official in the Hashemite government. There she gave birth to two sons (Gad and Daniel) and graduated with a PhD in international public law from universities approved by Bordeaux at the same time as studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1973, once divorced, she moved to Paris and worked as an organisation and methods engineer with the company SERETES (the consulting branch of SERETE, the most important engineering firm in France). In 1976 she went to live in Caracas where she directed strategic change management processes at several Venezuelan banks at the same time as studying Transactional Analysis during five years, graduating as an Advanced Special Member of ALAT (Transactional Analysis Association of Latin America). In 1984 she met the man who would also become her husband, the novelist Leopoldo Azancot Franco and went to live with him in Madrid where she adopted Spanish nationality to honour her own Sephardic roots. She stayed there until 2008. Since then, attracted by the coast of Alicante which, with its landscape and multi-cultural character, reminded her of the international Tangiers of her childhood, she decided to install herself at a distance of five metres away from the waves, in order to close one life cycle and open another. Between 1980 and 1982, she discovered and developed MAT. For further information, please visit www.mat-cachet.com As a writer, Preciada Azancot has written more than twenty books and published 18. At present, her whole family (a brother, her two sons and five grandchildren) all live in Paris where she spends long periods each year.