Interventions in institutions
At the Gassies tower, center of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Bordeaux
Catherine Vallée organized, with the managers of the Center and the educators, workshops of evolutive art therapy® with severe burns, disabled people and their families. She supervised the team of progressive art therapists who were finishing their training.
At the Régnier center, Rennes
From 2017 to 2019, Marie-Odile Brêthes and Sylvie Lamoure, in collaboration with the psychiatrist, accompanied young people and children hospitalized in pediatric psychiatry at the Hermione Unit at the Régnier Center linked to the Rennes University Hospital. Students in evolutive art therapy® from Rennes and Nantes took part in this support, supervised by the two trainers from the Plénitude School. We have helped young people to express their mental suffering and then to imagine and look at life with more gentleness and optimism.
In the prison service
In 2016, in a detention and probation center as part of the fight against terrorism, Catherine Vallée led writing workshops with detainees for several months.
In the Camino Recovery clinic, Spain
Since 2016, Véronique De Buck has been working as a clinical art therapist at the Camino recovery International Rehabilitation Center (www.caminorecovery.com). This center supports people with addictions and young people with various pathologies (bulimia, anorexia, depression, alcoholism, etc.)
During this work, Véronique guides patients towards self-knowledge, by treating their trauma, their emotions and their fears to embrace earthly life and thus let go of the astral plane of illusions and dreams, by recognizing their individuality and by stimulating their self-esteem and their qualities. The analyzes help the psychologists at the center to go even deeper into the subconscious, where words cannot be used as language but symbols in drawings can. Once a month, Véronique also guides visiting families through the practice of collective drawing in order to harmonize family relations between patients and their parents.
Evolutionary art therapy and education at Nantes University Hospital
In collaboration with the Creative Health Factory as part of the Therapeutic Education for patients with chronic diseases at the Nantes University Hospital, Marie-Odile Brêthes has provided individual support for chronically ill patients for two years as part of the Health Factory . Between 2013 and 2015, she supported patients with fibromyalgia, a little girl with eczema, people with depression, or with Crohn's disease in progressive art therapy®. Following this support, Anne Lerhun and Marie-Odile Brêthes presented in June 2014 a power point at the Sète 2014 Congress on the theme "Evolutionary art therapy® at the frontiers of therapeutic education". In 2016, as part of the EVAD research project "Evaluation of the strengthening of the emotional management skills of people with chronic diseases who have benefited from creative and bodily meditations" Marie-Odile Brêthes supervised the evolutionary art therapy mediation ® hosted by Anne Le Dorlot. This study took place over three years and concerned around one hundred and fifty patients who had chosen body mediation and artistic mediation. This project took place under the direction of Doctor Anne Lerhun and Catherine Greffier. In St Jacques, Nantes University Hospital.
Progressive art therapists continue to work in collaboration with the Health Factory.
At the nursing institute of the Falaise Public Hospital
In Normandy, from 2006 to 2008, Catherine Vallée worked at the Nursing Institute of the Falaise public hospital. She led workshops to initiate evolutionary art therapy® as part of raising awareness of alternative therapies.
At the home for disabled people
In 2006, Catherine Vallée accompanied quadriplegic people in regular workshops with the care team made up of a psychomotor therapist, a psychologist and nursing aides. She accompanied them with individual and collective drawing.
