For years you’ve been listening to me rail about our healthcare system and how it’s bankrupting and killing and us. We spend almost 20% of our GDP on healthcare (seven times more than any other industrialized nation on earth) and we’re not the healthiest country in the world… not even in the top 20; because our system is based on an interventional model (we diagnose and treat illnesses).
The future of healthcare is about shifting the interventional paradigm to one that’s based on prediction and prevention. That means inspiring people to become active participants in maintaining their health. I am pleased to announce the Clown Town Healing Fest, a joyous celebration promoting health and healing in community.
This is a dream I’ve shared with my friend and colleague Patch Adams MD for years. We’ve been doing this health promotional work all over the world, and it’s time to bring our clown healing festival to the streets of America. We will inaugurate the Clown Town Healing Fest (CTHF) in Phoenix, AZ. December 4-6, 2015.
Clowns will mobilize Phoenix’s healing resources, from customary healthcare providers, to support groups of every description (burn victims, parents of ADD kids, victims of abuse, cancer survivors, et.al.). There will be nutritionists, music/art/dance/narrative therapists, body workers, traditional healers… they will all tell their stories about how they heal and have been healed.
It’s for people of all ages and backgrounds, with clown performances, presentations, and interactive participation, all designed to inspire people about how to keep them healthier.
This will be a joyous, free, celebratory weekend about healing in community. Help us make this dream happen! Get involved, go to www.clowntownhealingfest.com and share it with your friends. Together, we can help shift the paradigm toward the new preventative paradigm…get well before you get sick.
Prevention is absolutely the key to good health. Blessings
I am looking forward to clowning around with you, Carl, if the dates work. You will be adding 2 more days of light to Hanukah this year!
Given the 50% or higher rate of burnout in physicians, we also need to work for wellness in our “customary healthcare providers”, too.
Stevie
With you for sure as the Clowns bring rainbows of healing to the streets.
YAY! for you CARL..Hoping I can join you..if not in person
…then in spirit…
Hi Stevie, we’ll be doing a day-long clown therapy workshop for healthcare professionals the day before the festivities begin, do plan to come and then clown with us as a “Truth Fairy”. If you have an entre for finding us CME’s for this experience do let me know. warm regards, C.
Love to see you here Jane, hugs and best regards, :O)
Hi, Dr. H!
I may just come out and help! I am a licensed master’s level social worker. We met years ago in Phoenix — and I have continued to listen to your words of wisdom for about 15 years now.
Blessings to you and yours —
Victoria
West Chester, PA
Absolutely, come and join us at the Clown Town healing Fest. :O)