OUR TEAM
Founded by Vivian Gladwell in 1990, Nose to Nose is a team of people
with diverse experiences in the fields of theatre, community building,
teaching, storytelling, play therapy, counselling, Special Needs
and organisational consultancy. Our influence and training ranges
from The Bataclown (France) and the Roy Hart Theatre.
OUR CORE VALUES
We are all trained and accredited facilitators
with Nose to Nose. This means that as part of the team we are committed
to inform our practice of teaching clowning through a team process
of supervision, peer review and co-facilitation.
Through our willingness to explore positively issues of communication
and collaboration within our team, we believe we practise the central
message of the work we teach – an approach and philosophy
that sees clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity.
This collective intelligence (as opposed to an individual one)
contributes to the creative diversity and quality of our work.
Vivian Gladwell
FOUNDER
OF NOSE TO NOSE (1988)
Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose and has given
hundreds of workshops around the world. He lives both in the UK
and France where he started clowning in 1978. He speaks French and
English fluently.
Vivian began teaching in 1988 as part of the Lifeways Festival
at Emerson College
– UK. He trained as a facilitator with the Bataclown
in 1990 and joined their team in 1991 also working as a modern day
Court Jester (Clownanalyst).
He created Nose to Nose UK
in 1990, Nose to Nose of North
America in 2006, Nose
to Nose Germany in 2008, NTN
Italy in 2016 and Fool View, the Social Clowning group and has
trained facilitators in the UK, the USA, Germany and Italy –
view history.
He continues his role as ambassador for the work by researching
the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training,
medicine, conflict management, ecology and intercultural work in
many countries (South Africa, USA, Senegal, Vietnam, India, Malaysia,
Italy, Germany, Norway…)
He holds clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity.
Alison
Stockford
Ali participated in her first Nose to Nose workshop in 2000 and
fell in love with the work. Since training as a facilitator she
has worked with Nose to Nose for over 5 years . She holds this work
in high esteem as a perfect grounding for all creative work and
the bigger picture of trusting ourselves and life. Alison is a qualified
and experienced teacher of over 25 years having delivered Performing
Arts workshops in mainstream and special schools and older peoples
settings. Dancing since the age of four she is drawn to facilitating
how others explore the dimension of movement in their clown.
Performing experience includes: tap dancing and comedy in café-théâtre
with Les Amuses Gueules Lille, France; Street Theatre and Theatre
in Education with Inside Out Theatre Company, Hastings. In recent
work for Nose to Nose Ali has presented trainings for the Giggle
Doctors – Theodora Foundation and for Lis’n Tell Speech
and Language Practitioners, UK. Ali speaks both English and French.
Carol
Thompson
Carol's training was in English and Theatre Arts at the University
of Toronto and the Drama Studio in London. She worked in Education
and Theatre for some years and then qualified to be a Psychosynthesis
therapeutic counsellor and an NLP Master Practitioner. Carol took
these skills into business in the private and public sectors as
a Communication Skills Trainer. In recent years she has become involved
in the positive psychology movement as a Laughter Leader and now
a Clowning Facilitator, combining her interests in education, theatre
and psychology.
Catherine Bryden (Canada / UK)
Catherine
has been teaching at the Rudolf-Steiner School in Gröbenzell,
Munich, Germany since 2001. In Canada, she studied Developmental
Psychology, Theater, Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL),
and Translation. She has taught ESL in Canada, Taiwan, Singapore
and Germany, where she founded and directed children’s summer
language camps in French and English. In the last 5 years, she has
been conducting workshops for teachers and student-teachers in communication,
improvisation and clowning in Stuttgart and the Witten Annen Seminar
for Waldorf teachers, as well as at her school in Munich. She has
been coordinating various UNESCO projects, in conjunction with students,
parents, and colleagues. For the last two years, she has been training
and practicing conflict and mediation. She speaks English, French,
and German.
Jessica Hernandez
Born in 1981 a grown up in Luxembourg. Studied Speech and Drama at
the Goetheanum, Dornach (Switzerland) and at Artemis School of Speech
and Drama, East Grinstead (West Sussex). She is fluent in English,
Spanish, French, German, Swiss German and Luxembourgish. She lives
in England and works as an actress and drama teacher / workshop facilitator.
Her work frequently takes her to Scotland, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
She has worked with Special Needs.
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