How Therapeutic Clowns Make Sick Children and Seniors Smile ft. Melissa Holland Purposeful Empathy Hosted by Anita Nowak

How Therapeutic Clowns Make Sick Children and Seniors Smile


Watch this episode to be moved and inspired by a professional
therapeutic clown discuss her work.


Melissa Holland is the co-founder of the Dr. Clown Foundation.
She and her team of therapeutic clowns work with children and
seniors in hospitals and other healthcare settings. In this
episode, she shares touching anecdotes about the impact clowns
have on patients’ wellbeing and describes how clowning has
changed her perspective of life.


00:00 Introduction


00:23 About Melissa Holland


01:52 What is a therapeutic clown?


02:44 Why Melissa went into clowning


04:34 A poignant clowning moment


11:27 Melissa's self-care practices


14:28 How her work has changed her life


17:27 Clowning in refugee camps


18:04 The physiological impact of laughter


22:04 Why is empathy so important to clowning?


26:39 Training to become a therapeutic clown


29:31 Melissa’s work with seniors


32:57 Has healthcare has become more patient-centered?


35:13 Clowning online and virtually


39:50 Melissa Holland’s Purposeful Empathy story


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Website https://fondationdrclown.ca/


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Video edited by David Tsvariani