Fif Fernandes who calls herself Fun, Intelligent, Female made the audience believe that every person has a clown inside of them. Happiness can be found in the slightest of things if we choose to feel it and use it to blow up our confidence. She told the audience that we don't need a clown attire to joke around, we can be happy just the way we are.

Ms Fif Fernandes is the co-founder of the MediClown Academy and a practitioner of medical clowning, proving every single day that physical and mental health go hand in hand and works on making the medical profession more humane.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/about/programs-in... A clown is one who takes the ordinary and makes it absolutely absurd. Therapeutic clowning is increasingly becoming a part of patient care. Fif Fernandes, Co-founder of the MediClown Academy, is a practitioner of medical clowning, working on humanizing the medical profession. She believes that hospitals need not be gloomy, they can be infused with laughter and gaiety.
Raising awareness about the fact that physical and mental health go hand in hand, she seeks to fill this gap through medical clowning. Through medical clowning, she transforms spaces, moods, and allows for healthy expression of unpleasant feelings This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx