| Simmons, Neil |
Hand it to the clown (PDF, 141.6 KB) |
Journal 34 December 2025 |
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A four-day training in clowning was life-changing. The silliness, the vulnerability and the creativity of clowning had all attracted me to give the workshop a try. As well as being great fun and great learning, I was surprised to find how much growth and healing occurred in the workshop for myself and others. Also, as a playback theatre practitioner I had heard about clowning for many years. Psychodramatist and founder of Brisbane Playback Theatre Francis Batton used to coach actors to ‘hand it to the clown’. |
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2025-12 |
| Christie, Sue; Farnsworth, John; Franklin, Kevin; Goessi, Jane; Hutt, Jenny; Jones, Diana; Shaw, Yvonne; Simmons, Neil; Thomson, Vivienne |
Journal 2025: Whole Journal (PDF, 7.5 MB) |
Journal 34 December 2025 |
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| Simmons, Neil |
Moreno (Back) in the Doctors’ Surgery (PDF, 123.4 KB) |
Journal 31 December 2022 |
concretisation, creativity, health, mirroring, Moreno, patient, psychodramatic methods, relationship, role, social system, spontaneity, tele, warm up |
I am a creative being. As a child I was artistic. I was always making things; baskets, weaving, jewellery, drawings, paintings and furniture. Since deciding not to be a professional artist and to continue being a doctor, I have been on a quest to bring creative life to my medical work. In more recent years, psychodrama has been a companion in this quest. |
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2022-12 |
