hi there, We’re Veronika and Paul Robinson, a husband and wife team who offer boutique celebrant training here in Cumbria. Why boutique? Wikipedia explains: The word is French for “shop”, which derives ultimately from the Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη “storehouse”. And it is this ancient meaning which describes the potential gifts, skills and ‘ingredients’ we offer […]
Here at Heart-led Celebrants, we chose our logo based on the simple fact that our work is heart led: therefore we offer a bouquet of hearts. Fundamental to our practice as Heart-led Celebrants (and as tutors at Heart-led Ceremonies Celebrant Training) are three core values: Integrity, Acceptance and Creativity. At every step of […]
Meet your celebrant-training tutors at Heart-led Celebrants: Veronika Robinson Veronika Robinson is a highly experienced working celebrant with 27 years of experience (more than any other celebrant tutor in the UK) who has had the privilege of officiating in New Zealand, Australia and England where she has written and led all manner of […]
We are now accepting applications for celebrant training in 2023. Train to be a celebrant with Veronika and Paul Robinson, who are experts in their field, and begin a wonderful new career/vocation being of service to people in your community. As your tutor, Paul offers comprehensive one-to-one voice and presentation coaching that will enable […]
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 […]