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Life is a spiritual journey. I will share with you what comes across my path and I would hope that you will do the same. The stories we share are our hope and inspiration. Our shares are the footpaths of our journey. We need to tell our stories. They are for us, the heart to heart connection, the bond of spirit, the rise of consciousness, the merging into the universe. When we share our stories with others, we share the flame of our love. -- Shobi |
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Editor and Publisher: Shobhana Schwebke
(Resume) Face Painting Samples - PDF File
"No one expects a clown
to be profound. No one
expects a clown to be
anything but funny. Look
again! The clown will
catch you off guard and
speak directly to your
heart – make you laugh at
yourself, and weep with
the world. " Red Nose Response Groups and Response Teams and (Click above)
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Other Commedia and Clown Workshops Shobi's Schedule
4rd Annual CATC / ACCT Conference with Therapeutic Clown Program Southern Alberta Child and Youth Health November 6-9, 2008 Calgary, Canada Pre Conference Workshop with Keith Johnston November 6, 9am - 4:30 pm Alberta Children's Hospital , Calgary For Information Contact Cheryl Oberg in Calgary
Workshops in Japan 2009 To be announced For Information Contact Artland, Japan Clown Ambassador Trips
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We hospital/caring clowns are skilled at dealing with suffering/death/dying and knowing how to approach people. The clowning we do is called caring clowning as it appeals directly to the heart. It is not coping humor, it is hoping humor. It is a gentle, caring, unconditional kind of clowning. It is this humor we caring clowns bring to "Worlds of Hurt."
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Current Newsletter -
Vol.
11, No 4
In this issue (Vol. 11 No 4): Junior Clowns On Rounds These Junior Clowns are Pediatric Patients. Ruth Cull shares her experience as a Therapeutic Clown at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa. MollyPenny's Wee Cards in PDF Format How many kids can a clown hug at one time? An article from Joseph Redman of Satin, Texas and sharing from John Glick with Gesundheit's humanitarian trip to Haiti with Mercy and Sharing Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher's powerful book about the development of Mercy and Sharing, a foundation helping the children of Haiti. An Oasis of Laughter in a Desert of Violence The story of the Happy Family Clowns working in Refugee centers in Syria Iraqi Refugee Women, Learning to Laugh Again Payasas (female Clowns) from Clowns Without Borders do special workshops with Iraqi women refugees in Syria One of My Great Day's of Fun! Nurse Bandi Aid, Jenny L. Naegele of Seminole Florida describes The Happy Heart Party The Press on Warp Drive The Sheffield Study from England that spread unsubstantiated headlines around the world. This Article on PDF Format Click here The Newsletter loses two friends, Muktabai Gieger, our copy editor, and Homer the clown. Below are PDF Files
We Remember 9/11 Cover of Vol. 6-3 (2001)
From Shobi Dobi: I was in England at a Clown Festival in September of 2001. On September 10th, I returned to my hotel with a reproduction of a painting of a Hobo Clown that I had bought at a clown auction. I couldn't understand why I bought it, but my hand just went up somehow. So I put it against a mirror in my hotel room only thinking "How am I ever going to get this in my suitcase?" It was the above painting (I added the wording later over the Wall Street Paper in the clown's hand which on the original had words about the Great Depression). The next day on 9/11/01 the World Trade Centers fell. This happened in the afternoon, British time, as one of my workshop was ending. When I finally got back to the hotel after watching TV in all the shop windows of the city, I saw again the painting against the mirror. I was stunned. I was totally awed by it's direct intervention into my life. It didn't take me long to realize that I had been given the cover of the next newsletter. It is awesome the help we clowns in community and world service receive from the Universe. All the time in little and big ways!
See Back Issue for Samples of the Newsletter This is not an on line newsletter. It is a 20 page publication for clowns in community and world service. It contains no advertising and is solely supported by its subscribers. The Newsletter contains experiences, stories, props, routines, and articles by caring clowns and others relating to clowns in service in health care facilities and compassionate service around the world. We want to share our work, so we can expand and grow and encompass the world with our JOY. The Newsletter is not aligned with any sect, religion or politics. Our purpose is to be a vehicle to share our ideas, hopes, failures and miracles. We recognize the diversity of the clown community and realize that there are as many ways to be a caring clown as there are clown characters. Subscribe to The Hospital Clown Newsletter Four issues for US $21
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