TRAINING THE HEALTHCARE CLOWN
healthcare clowning Training Coaching artistic development
Freya is a heath care clown-actor and clowns for children with medical treatment and vulnerable people in hospitals or elsewhere aswell as for elderly people in care homes. She is artistic advisor and head of training for the Norwegian Healthcare clowns Sykehusklovnene 2019-today and is the primary teacher on this curriculum. She partnered on behalf of Sykehusklovnene with the European Erasmus project and created a level 4 European standard for the European Qualification Framework for HealthCare Clowning 2019-2022.https://www.erasmushccp.euThis was a collaborative project with France’s Le Rire Medicin, Italy’s Sorcosso Clowns, Latvia’s Dr Klauns, Norway's Sykehusklovnene and the University of Lisboa. Freya teaches movement, improvisation and healthcare clowning for different clown organisations, is an artistic coach and has given talks on Health Care Clowning at conferences (Den Haag, Lisboa 2022) and written various academic papers for publication.Freya is in a Research and Development group for EFCHO, the European Federation of Healthcare clowning.​
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.
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.
