Chin up! Hospital clowning: support for children and development for volunteers
What is hospital clowning? What is it for and who is it suitable for?
How to organize such a project? How to make charity not only help those in need, but also bring pleasure to those who do it?
Veronika Pimenova, an employee of the NGO Charitable Foundation “Personal Participation”, spoke about this and many other things at the webinar of the School of Social Volunteering.
The speaker of the webinar is Veronika Pimenova, development manager of the Hospital Clownery project in Saratov. Deals with the selection and training of volunteers, adaptation to work, accompanying the activities of hospital clowns. Regularly adjusts the training program, looking for new partners, ways to develop the project. She is also a psychologist and consultant (consulting support for non-profit activities).
00:06 How Veronika started and what she is doing now at the Personal Participation Charitable Foundation in Saratov
01:36 What is hospital clowning? This is a form of social and psychological assistance to people who are in a difficult life situation.
02:38 Who do hospital clowns deal with: hospice patients, children, patients in neuropsychiatric boarding schools, in nursing homes, in the emergency zone.
04:24 Why is this needed? Hospitalizations are always stressful. Hospital Clowns Reduce Anxiety
08:51 The Hospital Clowns project has been operating in Saratov since 2018. Two forms of work: offline and online
10:50 What is the specificity of the work of hospital clowns in general? Hospital clowns create a playful atmosphere
12:36 The basis of our work is improvisation, work in a situation of uncertainty
20:40 The principle of our volunteer team is working in pairs
23:48 When does a hospital clown work alone?
26:21 Security is very important, minimum requirements are no harm
28:32 Is there a big rotation?
30:35 What does the exit look like for hospital clowns: offline and online
33:40 Team structure of the Hospital Clowns project
37:22 Question about how you can take a photo with children, then post it on social networks
38:21 How the work with volunteers is organized, the life cycle
42:36 What volunteers learn for hospital clowning
46:06 How and where is the internship
47:25 Frequency of hospital clowns coming out
48:32 Psychological support group for volunteers as support for the activities of volunteers
51:12 We always listen to suggestions from volunteers for improvement
55:01 Why is 15 minutes of a clown with a child so meaningful?
58:07 The best thing is when the clowns are gone and the game remains. Case Study
59:37 Feedback from children and parents
1:01:53 Q: Is it always improvisation or are there basic scenarios?
1:09:01 About the future of the foundation and the difficulties: funding, turnover of volunteers, support for teams in other cities
1:13:23 For a full-fledged visit to the hospital, how many people?
1:15:07 Why be a clown for a long time, won't your sincerity be lost?
1:19:45 How many volunteers can be built into the hospital system?
1:24:54 Why don't they hire more people to teach?
1:26:15 Anyone can become a hospital clown?
1:29:55 How often does a psychologist work with hospital clowns? Regular prophylaxis or individual cases?
1:34:21 In a pair of incompatible partner clowns, what to do in this situation?
1:38:51 The mechanics of the work of a pair of clowns offline and in the hospital
1:42:36 Why learn from clowns? Can everyone be a clown?
1:45:28 We answer and value our good name in the hospital, safety
1:46:29 And what kind of stage clowning laws do you apply?
1:49:06 Are there manuals, books, studies on hospital clowning?
1:51:02 What is needed for basic training for beginner volunteers?
1:54:07 Clowning tutorials and resources
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