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Clown Workshops
Living in the space between laughter and vulnerability — the clown breathes space into where humour meets truth.
Ready to explore?
Next workshop:
CLOWN WORKSHOP: LIFE and Nature in Nature
May 31, 2026 10:00 - 17:00
Sauve, Gard 30610, France
A day to explore life, nature and everything in between. We will spend the day in our very own tree house in nature, bringing discovery, philosophy, and some zen to our red-nose play.
-Get in touch to join this next workshop!
-Alternatively, invite Freya to organise a workshop where she is, or bring a workshop or retreat to you.
For this, all you need is:
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Six or more people attending, you are a generous collaborator and a very practical organiser/producer!
Freya teaches Clown workshops from initiation at a beginner level to
developing the clown's physical identity and emotional life.
Solo play, the Duo, Trio and Ensemble play. Tempo, rhythm, voice.
Life, Death and everything else in between.
Writing scenarios for clowns together or the individual clown's story.
Freya has specialised in Health Care Clowning and teaches workshops
for Healthcare Clowns and Healthcare Staff.
She was the head of training for Sykehusklovnene, the Norwegian
Healthcare clowns, until 2023, and the primary teacher for this
curriculum.
She teaches in English, French and Norwegian.
JOIN A WORKSHOP: Either come and join a workshop already on the calendar, or get in touch if you're six people or more to arrange a workshop where you are or where Freya is.
Freya is an international trainer and loves teaching workshops for healthcare clowning, healthcare clown coaches, and healthcare staff.
Her mission is to facilitate for healthcare clowning to have the best impact possible everywhere. No matter how big or small the workshop or collaboration may be, get in touch. Every raindrop goes towards creating a river.
Freya Stang was head of training for the Norwegian Healthcare clowns, Sykehusklovnene, 2019-2023, and primary teacher on this curriculum
https://sykehusklovnene.noShe facilitates training for clown coaches and trainers.
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In 2025, Freya collaborated on teaching the coaching workshop for efhco's (European Federation of Health Care Clown Organizations) artistic representatives in Paris 25.
She is an assessor for France's Le Rire Médécin
https://www.leriremedecin.org/ panel that accredits its experienced HC clowns.
Freya partnered on behalf of Sykehusklovnene in the 2020 Erasmus+ project (details on efhco.eu) aimed at professionalising healthcare clowning in Europe. It provides a shared, validated, and innovative training curriculum with defined key competencies for artists working in healthcare settings. It focuses on setting European standards and enhancing the professional qualifications needed for in-hospital work.
Freya partnered with Sykehusklovnene through the European Erasmus project and created a level 4 European standard for the European Qualification Framework for HealthCare Clowning 2019 - 2022.https://www.erasmushccp.eu
Erasmus+ HCCP - Health Care Clown Pathways
2024-2025 Freya was a member of the French Healthcare Clown company Le Rire Mèdicin ceritification jury for their experienced clowns. https://www.leriremedecin.org/
Freya is in a Research and Development group for EFCHO, the European Federation of Healthcare clowning.
Freya is an artistic member of the EFHCO Board of Directors.
and was part of the EFHCO Paris annual meeting 2025
planning group
The European Federation of Healthcare Clown Organizations
At HCIM 2026, she will be moderating two sessions
S2-04 / S3-04Transmissions, murmers, rumors and whispers : different generations of actor-clowns and how to facilitate their working and playing together, Part 1 & Part 2
Royal Holloway University of London
Learning from Clowning as a Social Research Intervention. Download PDF
Families Disconnected by Prison. A Scoping Study in Barriers to Engagement. Download PDF
ISG review 2020-2021 Download PDF
Letter from the ISG director Download PDF
‘Artful language and narratives of adult learning’ Annual Conference 2019 Bergen, Norway Thursday 28th February to Sunday 3rd March 2019 Download PDF
Community-‐centric engagement: lessons learned from privacy awareness intervention design. Download PDF
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Renata kalivod, Managing Director,
Dr Klauns, Latvia
Freya's visit to Latvia after covid allowed us not to be stuck in our little swamp, so to speak :)
The workshop and coaching helped to improve and widen the variety of artistic techniques and methods used in our clowning work.
In Freya’s coaching, our clowns said it gave them a perfect opportunity to look at themselves with new eyes and understand more about their clown character and role in partner play. During the coaching sessions, there were interventions from Freya where individual tasks were given which provoked the clowns to search for other ways and find new opportunities within their work.
Yury Olshansky, managing director, Sorcosso Clowns, Italy
Sykehusklovnene with Freya's partnership in the Erasmus Project to create a level for professional Health Care Clown training was invaluable and helped us gain recognition for health care clowning from the European Qualifications Framework at a level 4, It was a 100% success!
Haflidi Haflidason, Clown student Sykehusklovnene 2021-23
It was a very good and safe learning environment to become a health care clown, which testifies to good teaching methods.
Very thoroughly planned and good content. It was a nice construction; with the meeting of ones own clown during module 1, and then gradually with this clown approaching the hospital clowning by the end of module 1.
It was absolutely fantastic to have the two weeks at St. Olav’s hospital during modules 2 and 3. I therefore felt very confident and equipped for clowning in the hospital during the work experience period.
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