The path to choosing the right celebrant-training course for you can be straightforward (that is, you make your choice based on cost, location, the real-life experience and reputation of the tutor/s or recommendation) or can be long and tiring (you search and search and none of the training companies you come across feel like ‘you’). […]
At Heart-led Ceremonies Celebrant Training, we’re so excited to meet the new celebrants-in-training for 2023. From January 2023, we’re including another book in your training materials which will augment what you learn and experience in your one-to-one sessions with us.Alongside Heart-led Ceremonies and Guardians of the Threshold, we’re also including Veronika’s latest book […]
Well hello! It’s World Celebrants Week. You can imagine that for celebrants it is a rather exciting time because we get to showcase why we love this job so much. It’s certainly different to other jobs in many ways. As someone who has been officiating ceremonies for 27 years now (half my life!), I […]
Veronika Robinson has been officiating ceremonies, across all rites of passage, for 27 years. Alongside her husband Paul, she’s co-founder and co-tutor at Heart-led Celebrants, a boutique celebrant-training school based in Cumbria, England. Their students come from around the world for training. Veronika is also editor of The Celebrant magazine, an international publication for celebrants […]
by Paul Robinson Paul is the voice-and-communication coach for Heart-led Ceremonies Celebrant Training. He also coaches celebrants already working or who have trained elsewhere, and other people who are interested in improving their voice and communication. You can find him at Paul Robinson Voice Coaching – Voice Coaching High Anxiety. That’s the title of the […]
There are so many aspects to the role of a Heart-led Celebrant. Let’s have a look at a few of them. At one level, it can be divided into: Our ability to give direction. Our ability to take direction. We create, write and officiate beautiful, personalised ceremonies based on what is meaningful to […]
Autumn is naturally a time for slowing down. And as I do so, I reflect on the wonderful wedding season I’ve enjoyed as a celebrant. I also think about the paths I’ve crossed, and those who’ve happened upon my path, in the other ceremonies I officiate. I truly give thanks for the coming together […]
Sometimes, when a new student comes to us for training, they ask ‘what exactly is a ritual?’ My first answer is to share something that they’ll relate to: a ritual can be a coffin carried down the aisle or closing the curtains after the committal at the crematorium or interring the body or ashes into […]
This blog is written by Eliza Robinson, an author and astrologer based in Glasgow with an international clientele. Her workshop is a wonderful opportunity for celebrants, as creators and writers, to transform any blocks of shame into powerful creativity. (This is suitable whether you’re considering training, in training, or trained) We often don’t know what […]
Hi, I’m Veronika Robinson, and I’d love to give you a behind-the-scenes look at my life as a celebrant trainer. Just like being a celebrant, no two days are the same. And, also like the clients we meet and work with in celebrancy, no two celebrants in training are the same. The trainings we […]