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Psychology for Young Professionals

Being a CLOWN

Group members:

Chan Kik Hang 5219 8437

Cheung Wai Tung 5181 6535

Chong Chi Yuen 5220 4400

Kowk Kwan Yin 5161 8950

Lam Cho Wing Alison 5190 5901

Mok Siu Fu 5148 7759

Yeung Wai Leung 5219 7674

Yu Mo Chit 5143 9608

Contents

Introduction 2

Job Nature 3-4

Personalities 5-9

Conflicts 10-12

Stress 13-16

Diversities 17-19

Workplace and schedule 20-22

Special occupation – Clown doctor 23

Conclusion 24

Reference 25

Do you want to be a clown? Many people think that clown is an interesting

occupation as they always smile and entertain people through many kinds of things.

However, it is not easy to become a professional clown. It‟s not only due to your own

personality or ability, but also the environment. Here are some jokes that illustrate

the difficulties of being a clown.

When a boy states that he wants to become a clown, his Chinese teacher would

say:” What a lazy boy! ” But his American teacher would say:” Spreading happiness

to people all over the world!” It‟s an old joke that satirizes the cultural difference

between Chinese and American toward occupation. Although this joke cannot state

the real situation in Hong Kong, it reflects the condition in some degree that people

like to classify profession into different rank. Some people despise this profession

and believe being a clown will lower their dignity.

A man goes to a doctor. He says he is depressed and life seems harsh and cruel, he

feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and

see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says:" But, doctor...I am

Pagliacci." Being a clown would not be funny as his face showed. It would be a very

stressful work and your emotion may be frustrated during the preferment.

However, you have to conform yourself not only to hide these feeling, but also

behave friendly to the source of the stress for matching the character.

Do you still want to become a clown after reading these jokes? If so, this booklet

will be very useful for you to become a professional clown. It would include the

personalities that a successful clown needed, the origin of the stress, the way to

cope with stress and the conflict of being a clown.

Clowns are defined as comedians, or buffoons. Their purpose is to entertain people

and make them laugh.

Basic requirement

Clowning is, above all, a performing art and it may seem like a simple task, but this

profession involves much more than just goofing off. Individuals who are looking to

become a professional clown may benefit from one of the many clown schools and

colleges around the world. These schools teach the basics of being a clown, and they

teach more focused aspects as well.

Besides educational qualifications and techniques, clowns need to have a strong

aspiration in entertaining for others. They are comfortable with the idea of both

designed and choreographed performances. It implies that wit, sense of humor and

creativity are essential factors to be a professional clown in performing

extempore act.

Different types of clowns

● Whiteface clowns usually cover their body with makeup in white color wholly.

They wear extravagant costumes, and act as a serious and arrogant character.

● Auguste clowns always perform as a joker or an anarchist. Classically the

whiteface clown instructs the auguste clown to perform his bidding.

● Character clowns adopt an eccentric character of some type, such as a butcher,

a baker, a policeman and a housewife.

● Therapeutic clowns using spontaneous humor and gentle play to sick kids to

minimize stress during hospitalization and treatment.

● Rodeo clowns are dressed in oversized, wild costumes, and imitate an animal

wrangler or a cowboy. They are used in bull riding competitions where their

primary job is to distract the bull from the rider

Duties

Clowns may have to do the following things depend on the role they are playing.

● Walk a tightrope, a high wire, a slack rope or a piece of rope on the ground

● Ride a horse, a zebra, a donkey or even an elephant

● Substitute him/her in the role of "lion tamer".

● Act as M.C. or Master of Ceremonies

● Anything any other circus performer might do

Working environment

Clowns will work in many places surrounded by huge crowds, such as

● Amusement parks

● Circus

● Parties

● Shopping mall

● Theme parts

● Carnivals

Different types of humor

● Exaggerate - enlarge or increase an abnormal amount

● Surprise - something unexpected

● Irony - the meaning is the opposite of what was intended

● Sarcasm - a cutting, often ironic remark intended to ridicule

● Satire - irony or sarcasm used to attack or ridicule

● Misunderstanding - result of a mistake or disagreement

● Physical humor - broad, physical comedy (slapstick)

● Pun - play on words

● Rodeos

● Theatres

● Hospitals

● Parades

● Street performances

● Clubs

Personality is defined as the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and

behavioral response patterns of an individual. We have high tendency to follow in

this pattern.

There is a Five-Factor Model of Personality, which are five broad dimensions of

personality that can be used to describe personality of human. They are

● Openness

Tendency to be open to new ideas, changes and appreciate with them.

● Conscientiousness

Tendency to restrict themselves and prefer planned behavior instead of

spontaneous one

● Extraversion

Tendency to stimulate themselves by being with others and be energetic,

enthusiastic

● Agreeableness

Tendency to be sympathetic, cooperative and encourage or care for social

harmony.

● Neuroticism

Tendency to be emotional reactive and feel negative emotions easily.

In general, clowns are:

● High in neuroticism

Neuroticism is related to feeling and psychosomatic. Especially for clowns, clowns

need to have abundant facial expression, and clearly show their emotional through

different non-verbal communication skills.

● Low in extraversion

Extraversion is related to active engagement in social activities. If someone is

talkative, sociable and adventurous, then he/she will not be a suitable candidate of

doing a clown, because they may conceal their feeling to pander when they facing

different people. Clown need to completely display their emotional feeling in front

of their audience.

● Low in agreeableness

Agreeableness is significantly related to generosity. People who are good-natured,

sympathetic will be a suitable candidate to become a clown, because clown has to

face a lot of embarrass situation. For example, children may fool with clown and

people always laugh at clown. If someone cannot be tolerance or generosity, they

may find it difficult to face those audiences.

Furthermore,

● Anxious

Clowns use humor as a defense mechanism to against anxiety situation.

● Concerned with approval

Clowns use funniness to get social approval, so that they can get the

satisfaction from pleasing the others.

● Empathic

Clowns accurately perceive the fears and needs of the audiences. They can

perform well even need to perform without rehearsal.

● Shy, Suspicious and Sensitive

Clowns have abundant mental and psychological feeling. It can definitely

help clowns to display more attractive and meaningful facial expressions.

A Research Study by Seymour and Rhoda Fisher

Seymour and Rhoda Fisher studied the personality of comedians.

● Preoccupation with the themes of good and bad

Comparing the personality of actors and comedians, comedians are greatly pre-

occupied with themes of good and evil. A crown cannot decide whether he is good

or bad and this disturbs him. Therefore, he tries to use his funniness to tell

others and himself that the world is not so evil and threatening as they think.

● Ambivalent

Double role makes clowns different. The performance of the comedians is always

two prolonged. On the one hand, they do many things to please and entertain

people. They are very affable and will sacrifice their self-esteem to make people

laugh. They are inferior to the audience. On the other, they convey repressed

anger and hostility by talking about threatening taboo issues such as death,

crimes, punishment and so on. They are hostile and angry. They are superior to

the audience and want to take control of them.

The reason for the duality of the clowns is that they are forced to adapt to an

environment full of contradictions and paradoxes. In order to deal with this,

they learn to integrate the contradictions and paradoxes and be comfortable

with them. Because these problems are irrational, they have to handle it with

irrational, silly and foolish thoughts, perspectives and actions.

● Hostility

Clowns conveyed more hostility than actors. Their anxiety and repressed hostility

needs humor to vent them. It is like people using dreams or others to vent their

hidden feelings.

● Concealment

Though comedians spoke a lot, they avoided eye contact and using the interviewer‟s

name. They treat the interviewer like a tape recorder instead of a person. They

seem to build a wall to separate them from the interviewer. Also, they tend to

conjure up images about concealment such as people wearing masks, hiding creatures

in their inkblot responses.

By The psychology of adaptation to absurdity: tactics of make-believe By Seymour

Fisher, Rhoda Lee Fisher

● Motivation

Clowns need to show their amusing facial expression and tell jokes to others in order

to vent their emotion like anger and anxiety. Not only treat it as a venting method,

but also a method to attract and pleasing people. When they make the audience

laugh, clowns will treat those laughing voice as a reward and have intrinsic

motivation. Also because they are nervous, they tend to have approach motivation,

therefore they will keep on making audience laugh.

In other words, by operant conditioning in reinforcement, if clowns can get positive

reward after he/she makes audience laugh, then he/she will keep on doing this

behavior. This is the basic concept of reinforcement. The more audience laughs, the

more social recognition he/she can get from the audience.

● Thinking

Using intuitive thinking styles, clowns find out the significant information out of

the complexity and take action accordingly. This is an unconscious simple

process, called a heuristic. Using past experience, specific modes of perception,

information processing and reactions, they react to some specific situation. The

same processes can apply to same contexts in the future. Therefore, they use

humor to defend against anxiety and convert suppressed anger from physical to

verbal aggression.

● Thinking and emotion

According to the experiential system, people are influenced by feelings. When

people are in certain situations, they will experience some feelings related to

past emotionally similar experiences and react to these feelings.

For example, clowns try to turn all the dreadful things that happened to them

into funny stories so that they think that these things are no longer dreadful but

funny to them. They use humor to deny that things are as bad or threatening as

they may seem.

What conflict does a clown have?

People may get prejudice against the others because of different socioeconomic

status, race, and age. The duty of a clown is to bring happiness and entertain people.

No matter how rich you are, or where you are come from, how old you are, a clown

still needs to do the best to make audience laugh. Otherwise, it loses its value.

As a clown is being a human, he/she may get prejudice especially going to other

countries to have performance. A white person may not want to make black

audiences laugh. Some male clowns just want to entertain the female. It is more

apparent to happen for some young men.

Sometimes, a clown may meet other performer even another clown. Although they

are not come from the same „group‟, circus or organization, they have the faith and

aim – to bring happiness to others. However, they may look down upon others and

have a higher self-esteem. Being a clown, confidence is important, that why they will

belittle other performers.

More often, people misunderstand clowns. People sometimes think that a clown is

humble in their mind. Comparing with other performers, they believe a musician or a

dancer is much greater than a clown. This kind of assumption is stereotype and

prejudice. Parents usually not agree their children for being a clown. They think

being a clown is not professional and meaningless, and even do not like their children

to watch a clown‟s performance! They see a clown as an „evil‟. In some movies, a clown

always acts as a bad guy such as the „The Dark Knight‟ (Batman). For Chinese, they

think the clown‟s job is halfhearted because of its grinning cheekily. People cannot

see the real face. They assume a clown is not good even delights us.

The above conditions illustrate that a clown may face different kinds of prejudice.

All in all, prejudice will influence a clown‟s performance. Therefore, it needs to be

tackled.

What does prejudice mean?

Dictionary: an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed

without enough thought or knowledge.

Definition in psychology: Prejudice is a baseless and usually negative attitude toward

members of a group. Common features of prejudice include negative feelings,

stereotyped beliefs, and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group.

Some examples are a person's sex, religion, race, age, physical belief and personal

beliefs. (by Edwin, (7 posts) on October 22nd, 2010)

Why are we prejudiced?

Frequently we make false generalizations – as it is easier to understand the real

differences and complexities. We may think „black people are good at sport‟ or

„women are more romantic than men‟. They all contain assumptions and make use of

knowledge associated with the group to infer about characteristics that the people

might posses. Such stereotypes are not based on fact but rather on what we think is

right from our limited experiences and upbringing.

Cognitive root of prejudice is come from the desire of self-esteem given by the

others (your „group‟). It is related to culture and upbringing on our behavior and

personality. There are many factors influencing this behavior indirectly – prejudice.

Social Learning Theory illustrates some factor such as the values of our parents and

friends which we absorb, where we live, and what culture we belong to. All of these

have a significant impact on which people and groups we believe are „like us‟. When we

believe we are in a „group‟, we suppose the other are enemy and get prejudice against

them.

We desire the identification and the feeling of self-esteem from our group such as

family, friends, or colleagues. The more dependent a person is on their social

identity for their personal identity, or on their group to give them their feeling of

self-esteem, the higher the possibility of them being prejudiced. Among people who

have a low opinion of themselves, prejudice is often used to separate themselves

from groups they don‟t want to belong to and grow closer to groups they do.

How to reduce Prejudice?

Prejudice reduction can be done in both a group level and individual level. The

group level is concern about increasing positive intergroup contact and individual

level will concern deal with controlling biased thoughts and negative behaviors.

And also you can reduce your prejudice in several ways. Firstly, the first way is

reflection. We can start by asking questions to ourselves, and quite literally

creating a checklist to challenge our own values and views like

„Is this true?‟

„Do I have all the facts?‟

„Am I over generalizing?‟

„Am I labeling this group or person unfairly?‟

It helps us to reflect ourselves whether we are prejudice or not. We had better

stop and think. The second way is contact which means being prepared to deal

anxiety in positive ways. Thirdly, by learn means listen to each one from different

groups and observe their behaviors, and keep an open mind to learn what are

different from you. Then, you attempt to accept differences, value diversity,

enhance equality. Familiarity with other groups in society can often lead to

tolerance and acceptance of other peoples‟ views and values. Try to work with the

others from different. It does help.

In psychology, stress is commonly defined as a process which a person appraises a

situation as threatening and responds in a way that prepares the person to cope

with the threat. It is the combination of a stressor and stress activity. The

measurement of stress is in fact the measurement of the stress response.

Clown is a very stressful profession and follows are several stressors of them.

● Uncertainty prospect

In Hong Kong, clown is not a very stable profession as there are only two

amusement parks. The job opportunity is less. Many clowns‟ incomes are depended

on the number of jobs or events they got. Their salary would be fluctuated by the

seasonal change and the economic environment.

● Negative attitude toward clown

Normally, people treat clown as a negative profession as they subjectively think

that the clown only plays tricks to entertain people. This attitude would induce

conflicts that stress clown. Moreover, these conflicts are not only come from the

audient, but also the clown‟s family. Parents always wish their children to become a

doctor or lawyer who have high salary and respect, or at least not a clown.

● Uncontrollable reaction of audient

A clown may not trigger the excepted reaction of audient through the

performance. It would greatly affect his following performance as he has to

consider whether his show is good or not.

● Work overload

Some employer may expect the clown to do much more things than the clown can

actually do. For example, a clown has to perform jokes, balloon art, magic trick and

even the MC. in an event. A clown has to learn many skills to satisfy the employer‟s

need. Otherwise, the received jobs would reduce.

● Change in work place

Clowns have to work at different places depend on the jobs they receive. The new

environment may be perceived as threatening to clowns and trigger the stress

responds such as increase heart rate, sweating and nervous which would greatly

affect their performance.

Due to the differences in personality, people would have different respond to the

stress.

● Type A and Type B personality

Type A individuals are described as ambitious, aggressive, business-like, controlling,

highly competitive, impatient, preoccupied with his or her status, time-conscious,

and tightly-wound. People with Type A personalities are often high-achieving

"workaholics" who multi-task, push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays

and ambivalence. They are attracted by high stress.

If a clown is high in Type A personality, he will enjoy the high work overload situation

in Hong Kong. However, according to cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Mike

Jordan‟s ten-year study in 1950, Type A behavior doubles the risk of coronary heart

disease in otherwise healthy individuals. Furthermore, if they fail to entertain the

audient, they will become frustrated and give up.

Type B individuals are described as perfect contrast to those with Type A

personalities. People with Type B personalities are generally patient, relaxed,

easy-going, and at times lacking an overriding sense of urgency. Because of these

characteristics, Type B individuals are often described as apathetic and disengaged

by individuals with Type A or other personality types. They experience less stress at

work and may work hard and in equally stressful environment.

If a clown is high in Type B personality, he can adapt the high work overload situation

in Hong Kong with good performance. They can function effectively as possible and

will not give up when they fail.

● Hardiness

People who are high in hardiness have attitudes that may make them more resistant to stress since they believe that they can control or influence the events in their lives.

For instance, the clown can treat the workload, change in work place and the reaction of audient as challenging and exciting rather than threatening.

● Locus of Control

People who are high on internal control believe that they can influence the forces and events that shape their and they tend to experiencing lower levels of stress and burnout than those high in external locus of control.

The clowns high on internal control can arrange the performance themselves rather than following the instruction of the employer. As they are more talent than their employer in entertaining people, they can manage a better show by using their own style.

● Self- Esteem

It refers to how we feel about ourselves in workplace. People who are high on Organization-based Self- Esteem (OBSE) have high sense of personal adequacy and see themselves as important, effective, and worthwhile member of their organization.

The clowns high on OBSE will be full of confident on stage as they think they are the spot of the show. As they think they are important, it easy for them to cope with the uncertainty prospect, which is, they consider themselves as a vital character in events.

● Negative affectivity

People who are high in negative affectivity are likely to experience distress and dissatisfaction in all areas of life. They focus on negative aspect of their experiences and dwell their weakness.

The clown should be low in negative affectivity so they can alleviate the negative feeling of failure to do the expected outcome such as the audient did not interest in the show. They will focus on their successful performance and how the audiences commend their show.

There are different diversities of being a clown.

Diversities of viewers:

● Little child (3-10 years old)

a) As the viewers are aged around 3-7 years old, the action or tricks that use by a

clown should be easily understand by them and make sure that they are

interested for your play.

b) Being a good clown who not only just giving fun to little child, but also need to

maintain a good image towards them. That means a clown should aware of their

action during the rest time.

c) As they are performing for the little child, they should control the child‟s

behavior during the performance. It is because little child may not control very

well, the clown need to have fast response towards those unpredictable action of

child.

● Youngsters or Adults (11 – 50 years old)

a) Clowns who perform for this age class should make their play being more

meaningful or the tricks should be more difficult and diversified. This is because

the viewers may have many experiences on watching clowns. Therefore, special

tricks can gain more attention from them.

b) The clowns should aware that not to involve any dirty jokes, as those jokes may

cause embarrassment towards the audiences and they may think that it is so

disgusting.

c) Some youngsters or adults may feel boring if they just only watch at the

performance, so the clown should let them involve in the performance during the

time. This can help to gain more attraction from the viewers and also to let them

won‟t feel bore.

● Elderly (51 years old or over)

a) Clown should be aware of the effect of the performance effects should not be

so excited, as elderly audience may not be afforded such an exciting

performance. The performance for them should keep in a peaceful environment.

● Tourists

a) While making tricks or jokes to tourists, we should aware that there are different cultures of different tourists. The clown should be careful that not to make any disrespectful action to any culture.

b) As the languages of tourists may be different, it is difficult for a clown to learn so many language, so during the performance time, the clown should use more body language and gestures to represent verbal communication.

Diversities of location

● Stage

a) As it is difficult for a clown to handle the viewers attitude on stage, the clown can make use of some sound effect or light effect to bring viewers into the atmosphere the clown want.

b) Also it is difficult for audiences to see if the clown keeps on doing some small tricks with small tools, so the clown performs on stage is suggested to use larger tools in order to let audiences to know how the tricks are moving.

● Outdoor

a) As there are so many noise while performing outdoor, so the clown should lead the audience concentrate on the performance. For example, doing small tricks may help.

b) The clown should pay extra caution during the performance time, as accidents can easily happen in outdoor area. Also, audiences may not have a fixed seat or standing place to enjoy the show, the clown should control them during the show time.

Diversities of time

● Festival Time

Being a clown may lose time of celebrate the festival with their friends. However, a professional clown should treat viewers at friends and celebrate with them happily.

● Party Time

The clown need to have fast response and keep patience, so people during the party time may being crazy or even some of them may drunk.

Work schedule is very important for employee and company, because the length of

time for work or the pattern of work schedule are directly affect the perfor-

mance of work and associated with workers‟ health and safety ricks.

For clowns, they go to perform as many as possible because their base pay isn‟t

considerable; they need to receive more work to earn more bonus money. As a re-

sult, sometimes, they need to work whole day and work 7 days a week. Further-

more, they need to perform on the street for free to enhance their celebrity

rating. This exhausted work schedule let clowns don‟t have enough time to take

rest and it damages their heath and performance. However, they know that phys-

ical state is associated with their performance, so, they use different ways to

recovery their energy level. Although their work schedule is unstable, some of

them insist on having enough sleep, such as, they will sleep 2 times a day, each sleep

for 3-5 hours. Also, some people have a late-afternoon dip in energy level, so, they

will have a nap in the afternoon that for recovering energy. They use these skills to

sustain the energy level that keeping good mood and work efficiency.

Also, when they plan a work schedule, they will consider circadian rhythms of

cortisal level which states that most people have high cortisol level in the morning.

Cortisol level associated with the physical state of a person, the higher cortisol

level, the more efficiency of working. So, when they study new tricks that require

high thinking capacity, they will plan to do it in the morning. For rehearsal or small

-scale performance, they will prefer to do it in the afternoon or at night.

However, the flexible work schedules let clowns have freedom to choose whether

receiving jobs or not. If clowns are not available or don‟t have time to perform,

they can refuse to receive the job. It is a big advantage for them, because they

can have more private time to do what they want, compared to workers whose

schedule are regular or fixed. They can have more spare time to have advanced

studies on being clowns or relaxing.

Some people being clowns are for generating

happy to others, they don‟t care about the

reward they will get, or even don‟t have any

recompense. Most of them have full-time jobs,

they regard being clowns as leisure activities.

The flexible work schedule allows them to

receive the job which is not disturbing their

regular work. Such as, some doctors use their

leisure time to be clowns in hospitals to generate

fun to hospitalized children. They help children

adapt to their surroundings. The atmosphere of

fun and laughter can help children forget about the illness and the stress for a

moment.

Learning

If a clown stands out above the rest, he may earn more money than others because

of his outstanding performance. If he wants to keep outstanding, he needs to work

hand on learning new tricks. How can a clown have a force to continuous to learn new

skill?

Whether the new tricks as a result of learning will sustain depends on the learning

effects. A clown have a good performance with new skills, such as new magic tricks,

the audience will feel happy, then the clown will satisfies his performance and

positive feelings will be resulted. Besides, his social needs may also be satisfied, if

he is praised by his boss for many company want to invite him to perform again

because of the previous newfangled performance. Moreover, the more chance to

perform, the more bonuses they will get, this is an extrinsic motivation or positive

reinforcement make clowns have further positive feeling toward learning skills. By

law of effect, any behavior that results in satisfying consequence tends to be

repeated. As a result, the satisfaction let him more willing to learn new skills and

improve their skills.

Memory

Memory is very important for a clown, because in a 1 to 2 hours performance, they

can‟t see any paper notes that mark down the procedure of performance, or even the

complicated procedure of tricks. They can retrieve the procedure form their brain

only. Long working time and low energy level let them have a bad effect on retrieval

of memory. Also, the presence of audience and the chatting of audience can draw

clowns‟ attention. Because of limits of attention, if we pay attention to multi-tasks

at the same time, we will perform one or both of the tasks more poorly. As a result

of divided attention for audience and performance, it let clowns hard to concentrate

on their work and hard to retrieval the memory of tricks. Furthermore, encoding is

directly associated with the efficiency of retrieval memory. Environment affect

encoding, by encoding specificity principle proposes that the cues present during

encoding serve as the best cues for retrieval. Many research studies also have

shown that memory is better when physical study and practice environments are as

similar as possible. However, for clowns, they study their new skills in their office or

in their home, but they practice them in many different places, such as birthday

parties in McDonald, on the street, or in a hall. Learning and practicing in different

environment has a negative impact on clowns‟ retrieval memory, as a result, poor

their performance.

However, they are all professional, they work hard on the same trick to rehearsal

for many times that makes sure they can 100% retrieve tricks in any situation and

they can totally resist the negative effect on retrieval process!

This service of clown doctor is provided in collaboration with the Theodora

Foundation from Switzerland. The program first started in Hong Kong from 1996.

Clown doctor is a voluntary job, and it needs to have hospital visit every week. Their

aim is to ease the suffering of hospitalized children through laugher.

Being a clown doctor is not easy. Each of them needs to have a special talent and

pass a series of tests and evaluation. They also have to adopt training for nearly a

year. Through the training, they will learn some psychology and pathology about

children together with basic health education. But the most important thing is how

to deal and communicate with the children. They need to be patient, have positive

thinking and willing to get in touch with others actively.

There are five clown doctors in Hong Kong at present. They can be found in

different hospitals around Hong Kong. Every week, the clown doctors will

communicate with the children on their own level in order to build up a special

relationship between them. Most of the young patients look forward to this magical

moment because they can leave behind the baffling life in hospitals and the plain

from the medical treatments.

Clown doctors face a lot more problems and stress than normal clowns. For

example, they need to pay attention to the changes of the patient while performing

the show. They may also need to face the death of their “friends” – young patients.

Hence, clown doctors have to face much more challenge and need much higher

emotional intelligent for their emotion control.

Have you ever thought that you can be a CLOWN DOCTOR?

A Clown can be described as someone who tries to make you laugh by being funny.

Entering to this industry is easy, but being a professional clown is difficult. After

reading this booklet, you will know more deeply about what they actually are. Both

internal and external factors like personalities and environment will have great

impacts on them.

Each individual have unique characteristics, clown as well. Therefore, it cannot act

like a formula. It is great if you can add some new styles when being a clown, so that

it can give the audience fresh feelings. However, if you are not an active or

well-communicated person, try not to force yourself to be a clown. It will be a

vexation when doing an unsuitable job coming up with a lot of stress and difficulties.

Some people may think that being a clown is an easy job. Unfortunately, how many

people will know the problem they are facing behind? The prejudice about clowns

may cause repugnant actions such as look down on the job they did. The stress from

family, uncertainty prospect or heavy workload will strike at their faith of being a

clown. The diversities of being a clown may lead them to be as a loss as to what to do.

Highly changeable workplace and working schedule may easily affect the daily

routine and hence performance. The above problems are feasibly existed and even

more serious than we imagine. Do you think that you can handle these problems

properly?

Nowadays, clowning has become more common and useful in medicinal treatment

especially to young patients. It can help them to leave behind the sadness of leaving

in the hospital. There is also a growing understand towards the clowning.

Are you ready to be a CLOWN?