Doctors of Imaginary

Roads of imaginary is a project that creatively supports the process of therapeutic education and autonomy in the face of the disease, of adolescent girls staying in this service. It is integrated into the therapeutic project designed by the caregivers for these young people. At the end of the courses, on Tuesdays in the afternoon, this program offers a group of young girls, the paths of body relaxation, collage, the trace by painting, drawing and/or writing, to gain confidence and autonomy.

Lights of imaginary is a project for women under treatment and post-treatment, who come to this resource place and embrace this creative proposal with great enthusiasm. The program takes place over a cycle of 8 meetings (with prior registration). It is a moment for oneself supported by the benevolence of the group, a parenthesis during the treatments. One Monday afternoon per week, participants are invited to express themselves through creative proposals that require no prior artistic knowledge.

Journey into imagination is a project done for the House of Patients and Relatives, a "resource" place outside the hospital. It has been going on for all these years, in close collaboration with the Institut Curie's care department. The art therapy program offered to patients takes place over a cycle of 8 meetings (with prior registration). Six to seven art therapy cycles are offered each year, accompanying about 60 patients. Within the framework of a supportive group dynamic, one Wednesday morning per week, participants are invited to relax and create with proposals that stimulate energy, imagination, personal resources and allow for self-care.

Imaginary Spaces project was designed to support, through creativity, the hospitalization of adolescents and young adults staying in the Onco-Hematology Department of the Edouard Rist Clinic. Hospitalized for the cancer follow-up care, often far from their families and their homes, this space allows them to take a break and find their bearings. On Thursday afternoons, they are offered a workshop time with activities around plastic creation, graphic design and writing. This program facilitates the following objectives: to explore, to be surprised, to escape and to gain confidence and autonomy.

Bubbles of Imaginary is the first project of the Doctors of Imaginary Association, dedicated for children aged 4 to 16. It was set up in close collaboration with the team of the Immuno-Hematology and Pediatric Rheumatology Unit of the Necker Hospital - Enfants Malades, in 2003. It has been ongoing since September 2004 and contributes to better living during the time of hospitalization and bone marrow transplant protocol. Frédérique Subtil has taken over from Laurence Bosi since 2011 on this program. She intervenes individually at the bedside of patients, two afternoons a week.