CLOWN DOCTORS AND HOW THEY ARE TRAINED

6. Continuous training

The concept of continuous training thus makes it possible to each team member to develop and consolidate its knowledge and competences in specific fields.
The management of association largely associates the clown doctors to the development of its annual program of formation so that it corresponds most precisely possible to their real and concrete needs. Are also partners of this reflexion a group of medical and artistic advisers recognized for their professionalism on an international scale.
The collective programme of continuous training is divided into several meetings :
- 2 national seminars : in spring and in autumn. They make it possible to each clown doctor to meet the whole of its team members and to work during two days on a selected topic. This topic is approached by putting forward various facets of the problem (artistic step, medical and psychological knowledge,etc).
- When it is possible, an international seminar is organized, where the whole of the Theodora clown doctors meet to exchange and continue their formation.