Author:

• Gláucia Maria Cavalcante Maia, - Maia, G.M.C. - <glaumaia@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0574-2567

Co-author(s):

• Aleide Barbosa Viana - Viana, A.B. - <aleideviana@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-2997
• Carolina Maria de Lima Carvalho - Carvalho, C.M.L. - <carolinacarvalho@unilab.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5173-5360
• Thiago Sousa Félix - Félix, T.S. - <thiagosfelix2004@yahoo.com.br, thiago@uniq.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6913-9815

Abstract:

This paper aims to promote reflection on clowning, in the light of Popular Health Education. It describes and analyses interventions developed since October 2020 until December 2021, for users and workerspublic devices in Sertão Central. Clowning interventions channeled the nurse resident to the territorialization process and presented itself as a potent technology for humanized care. As an interlocutor between scientific and popular knowledge, in her scenopoetic corporeality, she dealt creatively and lightly with taboo subjects for community health, promoting a problematizing and dialogical education with her audience. The lived experience raised some reflections about the gaps in investments to make projects like this viable, strengthening the institutionalization of Popular Education in Health. Thus, we advocate the implementation of trainings and workshops on Popular Education in Health concepts, challenges, and potentialities. Clowning, as a proposed action, is a transforming technology that inspires protagonism to the community through knowledge, loving care, and art.

Keywords:

Health Promotion. Popular Education in Health. Laughter Therapy

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