Becky Cortino Christian Creative Arts Books and Media
Becky Cortino's first 7 books are written based on over 20 years of ministry experience serving alongside her family...
She wrote these books and created programs on the topics of Christian Creative Arts Ministry and Healing Humor Ministry to help others in this needed and noble quest.She has actively encouraged the Christian community to establish a Christian Creative Arts Ministry to impact lives by offering numerous training programs, personally coaching and helping churches, and through online and digital media Becky wrote and developed with the mission of preparing and equipping these ministries.
Lifestyle: Christian Creative Arts Ministry
Creative Arts Ideas for Special Events and Insight on 4 Popular Ministries to Consider: Gift of Heart: Impacting Lives through Christian Creative Arts
Are you looking for a meaningful way to serve? Christian creative arts ministry provides a means to touch hearts with ideas, lessons, and uplifting messages. In today’s entertainment-driven society, this ministry form is viable, with endless opportunities. Fear not! Although the name may imply requiring great creativity — it does not. Simply, a heart to serve is essential.
This inspiring guide is presented as a springboard to spark imagination by Becky Cortino, based on her experience as a family entertainer since 1997. Learn what Christian creative arts ministry is, and why it is important.
Discover possibilities surrounding all of us daily. Explore easily-implemented special event ideas, proven appropriate for varied venues and situations, along with four popular ministries to consider. You will benefit from tried-and-true insight and professional tips. A personal view presented from the trenches will help you know the positive impact made through simple gifts of the heart.
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Lifestyle: Health and Humor
On the FlipSide: Becky is the Creative Mind behind Healing Humor: Live Happy – Be Healthy and AHeart4Clowning series about Injecting Humor in the Healthcare Setting, via Applied Humor Therapy. Writer, featured public speaker, and trainer, with multimedia training series, based on nearly 14 years of performing in the healthcare setting and leading a hospital humor program.
Injecting Healing Humor in the Healthcare Setting - for Everyone: While it is said the longest journey begins with a single step, the adventures of a hospital or caring clown into the Great Clown Unknown may comprise the most incredible experience of a lifetime, in every step taken by those funny shoes and in the true heart behind that nose. This book is written based upon personal experience, explorations, and interest-directed research serving in the trenches, as a hospital or caring clown since 1997.
Presented as an inspiring collage from my clown heart as a grassroots volunteer community-based hospital clown creative ministry coordinator, this book is well-seasoned with insight, served up with the purpose of providing a dose of encouragement to active healthcare venue performers and creative arts entertainers; those with a heartfelt desire to inject healing humor into the healthcare setting; or those simply interested in taking a peek into the joy-full existence, a part of the blessed journey of hospital/caring clowns and creative arts family entertainers!
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For Family Entertainers - Injecting Healing Humor in the Healthcare Setting: An inspiring guide filled with ideas and savvy solutions for Hospital Clowns, Healthcare Family Entertainers, Applied Humor Therapists, and SmileMakers, by Becky Cortino, based on her almost 14 years of hospital clowning experience, beginning in 1997. Insightfully written to encourage those in the trenches desiring to generously inject Healing Humor in the healthcare setting, through effectively entertaining, touching hearts, and spreading a contagious epidemic of laughter and cheer through lavish doses of Joy and Wonder!
*Pointers and Tips for Entertaining in Healthcare Setting *Inspirations and Ideas for Putting Your Best Foot Forward *Actionable Steps to be an Effective Healthcare Family Entertainer *Journaling and List-keeping Section *Special Reader BONUS Gifts ($45 Value)
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How to Establish a Hospital Creative Arts Ministry: Are you all Dressed Up with No Place to Go? Have you had Hospital Clown, Caring Clown, or Healthcare Family Entertainer training, but no established hospital or healthcare facility program where you can apply it? Do you need a dose of encouragement?
There are many preliminaries and considerations that need to be addressed in setting up a hospital or healthcare facility humor program. The nuts ‘and bolts to help you build a group is provided in the 131 pages of this ‘how-to’ guide for injecting healing humor in the healthcare setting through creative arts.
This book provides experienced insight, ideas, and inspirations to encourage unique ministry. Considerations in setting up a hospital clown, caring clown, or healthcare family entertainer group, troupe, or creative ministry. How to present your idea to a hospital or healthcare facility. Organization, team-building, and training ideas. Case Studies and Printable Forms to encourage and support efforts.
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MultiMedia: Healing Humor
Create Endless Smiles ‘n Memories with Funny Smile Makerz Kit! Designed especially for those who want to spread laughter and cheer, while making happy memories for others. Always a hit with all ages, Funny Smile Makerz Smiles communicate clearly in all languages! Share Smiles everywhere — anytime!
Once purchased, print as many as you want, as often as you need. Just for FUN — share Funny Smiles wherever you go! Create a simple, special leave-behind for patients or residents of a healthcare facility or nursing home, humor programs, events and venues, humanitarian purposes, and outreach events. One size fits all! Great FUN for everyone!
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There’s a Clown in My Soup video is a Best Practices EduTrainment Clown Rounds program, especially for Hospital Clowns, Caring Clowns, and Healthcare Family Entertainers… Presented to integrate universal concepts for performers in the healthcare venue, this program makes effective learning enjoyable in a fresh, fun colorful, new, and memorable way.
No more talking heads, drab, dull, or boring training sessions with this program! Instead, a sugar-coated, humorous presentation of 21 Key Questions Every Healthcare Family Entertainer should be able to answer.
Developed by Becky Cortino, a hospital clown who injected healing humor in the healthcare setting for nearly 14 years, and served as coordinator of one of the oldest all-volunteer hospital clown programs in the world, founder and director of FRMC Charlie’s Chaplains’ now-infamous “Skool” in which she trained 245 hospital clowns.
This innovative and inspiring training program includes a “Clown Soup” Facilitator Guide, and a printable Participant 21 Key Questions Booklet. [Video and all materials are in color.]
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Updated 8.12.23