Making Sense Of: Humour and Healing Project Home Page



Project Leader: Bernie Warren Clown Doctor and University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Welcome to the Making Sense Of: Humour and Healing project home page. The project is an exciting opportunity to engage in creative and innovative inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research dialogues which aim to explore the creative relationships between humour and healing and examine the implications for clinicians, healers, patients and caregivers. The project will engage with and explore a number of core themes; Using humour to promote wellness, healing, quality of life Nursing and humour Humour, care and caregivers Humour, compassion, laughter, tragedy and crisis situations Hostility, anger and humour The healing power of humour Humour and its integration in the health professions Clowns, comics and other artists as part of healthcare teams Humour as a therapy; humour as a treatment Humour, depression and stress Humour, pain management and palliative care The limits of humour in healing Related themes will also be identified for development and exploration. Out of our deliberations it is anticipated that a series of related cross context research projects will develop.