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To secure your place in the HCIM 2026 sessions, please indicate below which ones you intend to attend. Without prior booking, we cannot guarantee admission to the rooms.

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📩 One-Day Registration: Please email or visit us at the Registration Desk (hcim2026@symporg.ch). Mention the sessions you would like to attend — we will then send you a confirmation email once your profile has been updated.

Parallel Sessions, Round 1

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S1-01 - Two different clown-led approaches to supporting healthcare professionals

S1-02 - Supervision, an experience report

S1-03 - Brain, humor and neurotransmitters – from the cell to the smile

S1-04 - Clowntastic: a lecture-performance on power, play, and radical connection

S1-05 - Playing in psychiatric hospitals Full

S1-06 - The shared space: dynamics of presence, distance, and personal boundaries Full

S1-07 - Adapted contact: dialogue through the body (a contact improvisation method for non-verbal communication in healthcare settings)

S1-08 - Clowning and trauma: safety, play, and nervous system regulation

S1-09 - The balance between depth and lightness

S1-10 - The art of warming up

S1-11 - Change of perspective: a best practice for the development of collaboration between artists and hospital staff in paediatric emergency wards

S1-12 - Healthcare clown organizations: perspectives from their founders

S1-13 - Medicine, not magic: presenting a competency-based future for therapeutic clown training in pediatric healthcare

S1-14 - The dark side of the clown

S1-15 - Collaboration between hospital clowns and medical staff: an interdisciplinary model for promoting support and empowering children undergoing medical procedures

S1-16 - From insight to impact: co-creating clown visits through participatory research

S1-17 - Enriching and structuring healthcare clowning in pediatric palliative care outside the hospitals

S1-18 - The art of encounter in elderly care: personal clown plans and family day as tools for connection Full

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Parallel Sessions, Round 2

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

S2-01 - Artistic coaching for healthcare clowns: a leverage for the performers, Part 1 (required for Part 2, S3-01)

S2-02 - The art of clowning and humour as a facilitator of care and positive reinforcement of learning for people with neurodevelopmental disorders, Part 1 (required for Part 2, S3-02)

S2-03 - Playing the room: developing an awareness of space and place in healthcare clowning Full

S2-04 - Transmissions, murmers, rumors and whispers : different generations of actor-clowns and how to facilitate their working and playing together, Part 1

S2-05 - The art of sustainable impact: a cross-functional panel on resilience and fundraising in healthcare arts

S2-06 - Establishing five stars standards for shaping the future of seniors’ healthcare together – a social lab experience, Part 1

S2-07 - The costumes of hospital clowns as a powerful tool for visual communication

S2-08 - Using MIDAS as a tool to measure emotional engagement during clown interventions in Danish nursing homes

S2-09 - The Plushie Friends Group

S2-10 - The role of healthcare clowns in pediatric preoperative care (2 studies) Study 1: Perioperative support for children by Theodora Foundation’s Giggle Doctors: a satisfaction survey from families and healthcare providers (CHUV Lausanne) Study 2: Bridging laughter and care: integrating healthcare clowns into pediatric surgery (Sairaalaklovnit Ry)

S2-11 - Why, why, why? Why not? Play (and imagination) as children’s and clowns' homeland

S2-12 - From apprehension to amusement: innovations in healthcare clowning from Hong Kong's Giggle Doctors

S2-13 - Values to rescue, Part 1 (required for Part 2, S3-13)

S2-14 - From relief to connection: how humour rebuilds trust in crisis settings

S2-15 - Impact of healthcare clowns on healthcare workers’ mental health

S2-16 - Why clowns now? Creative and adaptive strategies for integrating clowns in healthcare

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Parallel Sessions, Round 3

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

S3-01 - Artistic coaching for healthcare clowns: a leverage for the performers, Part 2

S3-02 - The art of clowning and humour as a facilitator of care and positive reinforcement of learning for people with neurodevelopmental disorders, Part 2

S3-03 - The art of connection: hospital clowns as bridge builders in psychiatric care Full

S3-04 - Transmissions, murmers, rumors and whispers : different generations of actor-clowns and how to facilitate their working and playing together, Part 2

S3-05 - ClowNexus: co-creating with autism and dementia communities

S3-06 - Establishing five star standards for shaping the future of seniors’ healthcare together – a social lab experience, Part 2

S3-07 - New clown duo: analyzing interaction of solo clown with doctors through the lens of the 4 archetypes

S3-09 - Engaging with elderly people with dementia: key approaches from the clowning project "A Beautiful Visit" in Canada, Brazil, and Italy

S3-10 - Healthcare clowning and integrative medicine in pediatric hematology & oncology: …what can we learn from each other?

S3-11 - Laughing in the lion’s den: “Clowning as resistance and resilience in a political climate”

S3-13 - Values to rescue, Part 2

S3-14 - The joy of loose parts: inventions to inspire caregivers

S3-15 - A feedback culture as the basis for connection: the Humour Foundation’s framework for building presence, trust, and inclusion

S3-16 - Play in hospital through the looking-glass: exploring children and young people’s perspectives regarding their interactions with health play professionals

S3-17 - Integration of hospital clown organizations into the healthcare system: the Pallapupas case

None

Parallel Sessions, Round 4

Thursday, March 12, 2026 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

S4-01 - Clowning for high-pressure clinics and healthcare spaces Full

S4-02 - Invisible touch in the work of a hospital clown

S4-04 - Connecting through playfulness – a developmental-pediatric approach, Part 1

S4-05 - The art of creating trust: a collaborative workshop for healthcare clowns

S4-06 - Driving growth today: challenges and opportunities in fundraising

S4-07 - If you squint your eyes a little (II)

S4-08 - The power of humor to regulate emotions

S4-09 - The magnificent science of CLOWNTROPOLOGY, Part 1 (required for Part 2, S5-09)

S4-11 - How we can make our art/performances more trauma informed and beneficial for patients, using juggling as an example

S4-12 - Narrative medicine and healthcare clowning: challenges and opportunities

S4-13 - Building an evidence base and communicating impact: a multipronged approach to program evaluation

S4-14 - Umbrellas United - A roundtable discussion between umbrella organizations around the world to foster sustainable development and inspirational collaboration, Part 1 (required for Part 2, S5-14)

S4-15 - Medical clown healthcare team collaboration: scientific evidence and impact on care

S4-17 - The Four Hats: tools for artistic leaders to help their artists develop their artistic practice, Part 1 (required for Part 2, S5-08) Full

S4-18 - Integrating research into the mission of a healthcare clowning organization: a case study from Pallapupas

None

Parallel Sessions, Round 5

Thursday, March 12, 2026 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

S5-01 - Clown, a specific timing of reaction Full

S5-02 - Physication: a playful bridge from emotion to motion Full

S5-03 - From insight to impact: co-creations for trauma-free healthcare

S5-04 - Connecting through playfulness – a developmental-pediatric approach, Part 2

S5-05 - The art of creating trust: a collaborative workshop for healthcare clowns

S5-06 - A positive disruption: care clowning as relational art in healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities and co-morbidity: autism, dementia etc.

S5-07 - Working with medical staff: creating clowning for medical procedures in highly stressful situations

S5-08 - The Four Hats: tools for artistic leaders to help their artists develop their artistic practice, Part 2

S5-09 - The magnificent science of CLOWNTROPOLOGY, Part 2

S5-11 - A purpose-led approach to strategic and sustainable growth at the Humour Foundation

S5-12 - Everyone in the room is in the band: vocal interaction & shared leadership in healthcare clowning Full

S5-13 - Aligning mission and action: a hands-on introduction to impact thinking

S5-14 - Umbrellas United - A roundtable discussion between umbrella organizations around the world to foster sustainable development and inspirational collaboration, Part 2

S5-15 - Giggle Doctor in pediatrics: a circular model

S5-16 - Unlocking the potential of connection: how clown-led workshops support caregivers in caring – Workshop for nursing and medical teams

S5-17 - Together for wellbeing: connecting arts and health

None

Parallel Sessions, Round 6

Friday, March 13, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S6-01 - What are you bringing: how to utilize tangible routines, skills and props in our hospital work Full

S6-02 - The clown toolkit unpacked: understanding the psychological impact of our presence and tools (based on EmpowerTeens' work in psychiatric care) Full

S6-03 - Laughter and after

S6-04 - Eyes in the back of your head: a 360° awareness workout Full

S6-05 - Interactive workshop: choosing effective music for healthcare clowning; perspectives from music psychology

S6-06 - The art of slowing down: connecting with those who have slower tempo than your own Full

S6-07 - Alive – the Miracle of Finitude: an artistic and educational proposal to nourish those working in care

S6-08 - Clowning in social pediatrics: focus on refugees, immigrants and First Nations communities

S6-09 - Close collaborations with healthcare staff in medical procedures (2 approaches). Approach 1 : MRI-scans reframed – Hospital clowns and radiographers working together on supporting policy aims of minimizing anesthesia Approach 2: Transforming Pediatric IV Insertion Through Healthcare Performing Arts: A First-Person Experience at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona)

S6-10 - Digital training for healthcare staff: collaboration with healthcare clowns during procedures and treatments

S6-11 - How can we measure and share the impact of our visits? (With the example of Theodora's Emergency Programme)

S6-12 - Clown doctors for medical doctors: training as advocacy for humanising healthcare beyond the clown round

S6-13 - Transcending conflict: the sacred art of medical clowning in wartime

S6-14 - From impact strategy to practice: from vision to action

S6-15 - Project for the standardisation of the artistic methodology of intervention: from the curriculum model to a common language

S6-17 - Healthcare clowning and narrative ethics: looking into the layers of organizational culture

None

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