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Celebrant Diploma

Our Diploma in Advanced Celebrancy and Ritual was created by Veronika Robinson, a celebrant with 28 years of experience officiating ceremonies, internationally, across all rites of passage; and Paul Robinson, celebrant and voice and presentation coach with decades of experience working with the voice and performance.   As with all the celebrant courses we offer, […]

Celebrant Training: A Conscious and Considered Approach

  With so many celebrant-training schools (organisations, companies and tutors) appearing quicker than mushrooms sprouting up in Autumn, it can be hard to decipher the best choice. It’s all so confusing! But, even William Shakespeare warned: “All that glitters is not gold.”     Words can sound grand and imposing (when celebrant trainers are trying […]

The Gentle Celebrant’s Guide to Funerals For Children

“Wow. What a beautiful book.” ~ Lianne Downey, The Social Celebrant   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 spaces we, as celebrants, hold for others; the myriad spaces that a person inhabits when they experience the death […]

A Celebrant’s Guide to The Five Elements

We have an exciting publishing programme for 2024 with our Celebrant Collection. The first of this year’s publications include A Celebrant’s Guide to The Five Elements which is being published at the end of January 2024. All the books in the Celebrant Collection, an imprint of Starflower Press, are written by Veronika Sophia Robinson, co-tutor […]

The Discrimination-Free Celebrant

Our core ethos at Heart-led Celebrants is acceptance. To this end, we work with our celebrants-in-training to not only create inclusive ceremonies where every single person is welcomed and respected but to consider their whole celebrant practice as a place of personal and professional development by unravelling their prejudices and biases. This is lifelong work. […]

CELEBRANT MASTERCLASSES AND MENTORING

Although we run monthly group CPD sessions for our certified Heart-led Celebrants and celebrants-in-training, I also offer celebrant CPD by Zoom to any celebrant, worldwide, regardless of whether they’ve trained with us at Heart-led Celebrants or not. Celebrant Masterclasses are based on an initial 1.5 hour Zoom session where I will analyse, assess and advise on […]

The Art of Ritual in Ceremony

Many celebrants (and other people) use the words ‘ritual’ and ‘ceremony’ interchangeably. They’re two different things. One example is when celebrants talk about a sand ceremony. It’s a ritual. The ceremony is the wedding or naming service. The ritual is the symbolic act of pouring sand. So, to be clear, the ceremony is the overarching […]

Celebrant Training: Consistent and Reliable Tutor Support

By Veronika Sophia Robinson The world of celebrancy is filled with variables: changes of venueconstantly new clientsnew scripts to writenew languagenew CPDnew, new, new.   What can be particularly helpful is having a place of consistency in our ever-changing work. One such place is having the foundation of tutors you’re familiar with and can come […]

Celebrant Training Dates 2024

If you’ve been planning to train as a celebrant, the great news with our training is that our celebrant-training dates are available at mutually convenient times. We aim to be flexible to your needs so if you prefer weekends, or school holidays, we can work to that (depending on what dates we have remaining). Sometimes […]