Books for Celebrants
Students who train with Heart-led Ceremonies have the following books included in their materials. Some are available to the public, and two of them are exclusive to our celebrants-in-training.
Books exclusive to HLC:
Heart-led Celebrants
Guardians of the Threshold
The following books are included in the training package, and also available from the publisher Starflower Press, other online bookshops, and bricks-and-mortar shops and libraries around the world.
Write That Eulogy: the art and craft of biographical storytelling by Veronika Robinson
Write That Eulogy offers an antidote to the tired traditional telling of eulogies. This book is for anyone who is considering writing their life story, or someone else’s, so it is told faithfully and with creative flair at their funeral.
Whether you’re an experienced celebrant, officiant or vicar, or are facing the task of writing your first eulogy for a loved one, this book will give you practical and proven ideas and techniques based on the author’s experience as a funeral celebrant. If you’re willing to question what’s always been done, then you’re half way there to improving funeral ceremonies.
Funerals for Children by Veronika Robinson
Funerals for Children is a heart-felt offering to those celebrants and ministers working with grieving families. This book is an exploration of spaces: the space we, as celebrants, hold for others; the myriad spaces that a person inhabits when they experience the death of a child; the spaces children live and love in; and the spaces we, as celebrants, hold for ourselves.
Pre-term | Stillborn | Infant | Toddler | Young child | Teenager
The Successful Celebrant
Though short and simple, the contents of this booklet have the power to change your life. It is written on the assertion that by creating new thought patterns, and combining mind set and heart recalibration, you will create a successful celebrant practice, and indeed, life.
Veronika is a metaphysician, and has long understood the power of the mind to shape our reality. She has previously worked with hypnotherapist, Brian Head, in New Zealand, leading sessions in self-hypnosis for elite sportspeople; and has facilitated metaphysics workshops for Unity School of Metaphysics in Auckland.
The Five Elements: A celebrant’s guide to creating beautiful ceremonies
There isn’t a human being on this Earth who isn’t impacted by the five elements in some way. The Five Elements offers celebrants and officiants the opportunity to engage in a conscious exploration of the way elements exist in our personal lives and how we can creatively and thoughtfully imbue our ceremonies with them both literally and symbolically. In this book, celebrant, author, and second-generation astrologer, Veronika gently invites the reader to engage with the power, magic and mystery of life’s energetic imprint in a way that is guaranteed to enhance their celebrant practice.
The Discrimination-free Celebrant: unravelling our prejudices and biases
From the moment we start becoming aware of the world around us, we are socially conditioned to make judgements about other people. The Discrimination-Free Celebrant shows that it’s not enough for a celebrant to add a rainbow logo to their website and social media and say they’re inclusive. True inclusivity is about recognising where we hold prejudices and biases and being honest enough with ourselves as we unravel them. It’s only from this place of radical honesty that we can truly make a difference in people’s lives as well as our own.
Funeral Celebrant Ceremony Planner
This Funeral Celebrant Ceremony Planner has been created by funeral celebrant and celebrant trainer, Veronika Sophia Robinson, author of Write That Eulogy. She knows that the key to successful celebrancy is organisation. This planner allows the professional celebrant to keep a record of all the ceremony-planning details in one place.
Wedding Celebrant Ceremony Planner
Organisational skills form the foundation of a successful celebrant practice. As a vastly experienced wedding celebrant and celebrant trainer, author Veronika Sophia Robinson recognises how overwhelming it can be for a new wedding celebrant when they’re starting out. This handy planner will ensure that whether you’re setting off to meet your first wedding couple or your thousandth, you’ll have a faithful companion in which to collate all the necessary information for a successful ceremony.
The Blessingway
The Blessingway is a beautiful and holistic alternative to modern baby showers. Whether you’re a professional celebrant, midwife, doula or about to officiate your first Blessingway ceremony for a client, friend or sister, this full-colour guide will lead you through the essential elements of creating a beautiful, meaningful, inspiring and memorable rite of passage for a mother-to-be or for parents preparing to adopt. Based on years of celebrant experience by the author, The Blessingway contains plentiful suggestions to bring art, soul and heart to this modern adaptation of an ancient Navajo tradition.
Upcoming: Love Story: a wedding celebrant’s guide to writing compelling narrative by Veronika Sophia Robinson
