Madeleine Veillet
Teacher
Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles
About the author
Madeleine Veillet teaches Psychology within the Social Science program at the Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles (Gaspé campus). She integrates introspective methods combining writing, visual expression and creativity development techniques into her pedagogy. At the 2008 AQPC symposium, she presented an interdisciplinary collage project as part of the course Intégration des acquis [Integration of Prior Learning] in Social Science. In 2012, she organized conferences and creative workshops on the benefits of creativity on mental health: Talent fou: Éloge du bonheur et de la créativité [Mad Talent: In Praise of Happiness and Creativity]. Since 2012, she has been co-leading an interdisciplinary extracurricular project inviting students to explore themselves through arts and crafts workshops.