Gesundheit! News

Educational Opportunities

CLOWNING AND CARING in MEXICO • April 12-16, 2010 An educational clown tour in Mexico. The tour will combine daily clowning with workshops in social imagination and inquiry into the locale of our clowning. Read more and register ...

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: RE-DESIGN OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Olympia, Washington • May 27–30, 2010 Combine innovative thinking with insistence on health justice for all. All stakeholders in health care systems welcome. Read more and register ...

Patch's blog

Recent conversation between Patch Adams and Representive Dennis Kucinich on Health Care Reform

December 30, 2009: Patch on the current health care reform debate in the US Congress: What's left out?

Gesundheit Press Conference at the Rayburn Building in Washington, DC, July 28, 2009

Current Campaign

NEW GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN! For 35 years, Dr. Patch Adams and the Gesundheit Institute have worked on a model of health care that puts care at the center of health. Gesundheit has launched a grassroots campaign to raise $1 million in 08-09 to create a Teaching Center and Clinic where health care practitioners will gather to further ideas and strategies for changing the health care system. A major donor campaign is expected to raise an additional $9 million. With your help, we will establish a physical center to demonstrate an ongoing, working model of joy in service.

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• There's a winning design from the fun-raising t-shirt design contest!
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• THE BELÉN PROJECT: Special grassroots fund raising request for ongoing community collaboration in the Belén district of Iquitos, Peru. Read more about the project ...

Gesundheit Friends

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL VOLUNTEERISM CONFERENCE Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia • April 16–18, 2010. In the spirit of volunteerism, this is a free conference. Read an interview about the conference with Gesundheit! Institute board member Neil Shulman MD here. Read the official website here.

CLOWN ONE in NEPAL • April 4-11, 2010. Clown One Italia and Nepalese organization Aperion invite you to join in a humanitarian clown trip in Kathmandu and nearby villages. Read more and register ...

CLOWN ONE in SICILY • June 21-28, 2010. Clown One Italia's dream team of Ginevra Sanguigno, Italo Bertolassi, and Marina Shusterman are offering an educational clown tour in Sicily, Italy. Read more and register ...

Recent Events

CLOWNING AND CARING IN ECUADOR • Jan 2-8, 2010 An educational clown tour with Patch Adams and teachers from the School for Designing a Society. Read more ...

HEALTH CARE JUSTICE GATHERING • December 28, 2009–January 1, 2010 on the Gesundheit land in West Virginia, an activism-oriented meeting of students, physicians, medical professionals, clowns, and community-builders. Happening now! Read more ...

EDUCARE AL DESIDERIO (Desire & Design) • Nov 25–29, 2009, Milan, Italy Bilingual workshop with Patch Adams, School for Designing a Society, and Clown One Italia. Read more ...

CLOWNING AND CARING IN COSTA RICA • Sept 10-16, 2009 An educational clown tour, with Patch Adams, Susan Parenti, Mark Enslin, Melanie Meltzer, and Kate Herron Slaymaker. Read more

THE BÉLÈN PROJECT, IQUITOS, PERU • August, 2009 " ... this was our most ambitious and successful community development project to date ... " Read more ...

SOUTH ITALY CLOWN ONE ITALIA TOUR: CALABRIA and SICILY • June 27–July 7, 2009
The seventh Clown One Italia tour began in Reggio Calabria and ended in Palermo. For more about Clown One Italia, email Ginevra at: info at clowns.it Un abbraccio !

ROMANIA CLOWN TRIP • June 28 — July 8, 2009 The Gesundheit! Institute and Over the Rainbow conducted a 10-day clown tour in Singureni, Romania, visiting hospitals and orphanages, offering to paint and repair houses and miscellaneous work in a community that welcomes orphans and children infected with HIV. For more information about Over the Rainbow, contact Elisa (e.rampin at tin.it) or Wildman (wildeman69 at verizon.net)

NORTHERN ITALY CLOWN TOUR, PADUA TO VENICE • July 11-22, 2009
One of Gesundheit's partners, Over the Rainbow, organized a clown tour in northern Italy (Padua and Venice) July 11-21, 2009. For more information you can write in Italian or English to Elisa (e.rampin at tin.it) and Wildman Adams (wildeman69 at verizon.net).

NICARAGUA CLOWN TRIP Alternative Spring Break • March 7-14, 2009 by John Glick. Read more ...

GUATEMALA ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK 2009 Report from a Canadian nurse & first-time clown. Read more

REFLECTIONS on the Feb 09 Health Care Systems Design Intensive: Carl Hammerschlag, MD, a guest presenter at the Intensive, blogs about his experiences in Baltimore, with video & photos: www.healingdoc.com