At Heart-led Ceremonies Celebrant Training, twice a year we offer retreats for celebrants (whether they’ve trained with us or not, and regardless of if they’re a celebrant-in-training or have decades of experience).

This is what’s on offer in 2025:

Beautiful Bereavement Ceremonies

4pm Friday 28th February 2025

to

10am Monday 3rd March 2025

Eden Valley, Cumbria

We keep our retreats deliberately small so you can get to know other attendees and enjoy a relaxed environment.

 

Join Us For A Deeply Beautiful Retreat

What To Expect

Join us for a joyful, creative, inspiring, powerful, deeply moving and fully immersive weekend of experiential learning.

Be confident in creating beautiful bereavement ceremonies whether in a short-slot crematorium, council-run cemetery, natural burial ground or elsewhere.

Each session will leave you enriched and empowered in your celebrant work.

 

Facilitator: Veronika Robinson

Veronika has been a working celebrant for almost thirty years across all rites of passage. As an experienced event host, it is her pleasure to offer intimate retreats for celebrants who wish to develop their skills in a safe, calm and nurturing environment.

Veronika is the author of many books for celebrants including the popular Write That Eulogy; Funerals for Children; The Discrimination-free Celebrant and The Five Elements. She is also a certified Infant Loss Professional and has level 2 certification in Self-harm and Suicide Awareness and Prevention.

Co-Facilitator: Angela Maughan

Angela is a Community Minister within the Open Sanctuary. She came into ministry for her own personal growth. Ceremonies came a few years later. Angela is passionate about the subject of death, dying and funeral planning. She draws on her background as a complementary therapist to help other celebrants to be the best they can be.

 

Session Topic

Self-Care for Celebrants: Protecting you and your business

 

Co-Facilitator: Paul Robinson

Since he was 18, Paul’s life has revolved around his voice and other people’s – as an actor, singer, broadcaster, compère, voice and communication coach, celebrant and ventriloquist!!

Session Topic

Deep Nurture and Freedom for Your Voice. Experience how stillness and relaxation can help you connect with your clients by enhancing the way you speak.

From baby bereavements to interment of ashes, humorous ceremonies to tragic goodbyes, this retreat will honour the vicarious trauma celebrants face, and provide a safe place to explore meaningful ways to serve without suffering. Whether you wish to improve your listening skills, vocal quality, create meaningful rituals or write compelling narrative, this retreat will offer a chance to refresh and renew while integrating beneficial CPD.

 

Our Retreat Venue:

Held at Glassonby Old Hall, Eden Valley in Cumbria.

This lavishly restored five-star 15^th Century Cumbrian Longhouse offers a peaceful retreat overlooking rolling Cumbrian fells and farmland.

 

Your Celebrant Investment 

£485

Includes your own double bedroom for three nights in 5* accommodation,

all sessions and materials,

vegetarian food and drinks for duration of weekend retreat.

The retreat includes at least 12 hours of face-to-face learning time

with the facilitators.

 

 

We have two places left.

To book your place, email: veronikarobinson@hotmail.com

Autumn 2025 Retreat

Crafting Bespoke Rituals for Any Rite of Passage

Dates TBC

A powerful and inspirational retreat

in the heart of the beautiful Cumbrian countryside

Learn to write compelling narrative and meaningful choreography

Sessions include:

• The Search for Meaning
• Understanding Ritual
• Bespoke Ritual Creation
• Enhancing Intuition
• Word Medicine
• Enhancing Your Rituals with Beauty and Grace
• Heart-softening Practice
• The Dance of Choreography
• Elevating Others With Inspired Ritual Creation

 

During this retreat, you’ll learn how to quickly increase your vibrational energy so that you can hold space for others while enhancing your ceremonies with bespoke rituals.

 

Immersive and structured heart-led sessions are cushioned by relaxation and connection, delicious foods, hot tub, walks in nature or reading by the woodstove.

 

Facilitated by Veronika Robinson

• Celebrant with 30 years of experience
• celebrant trainer
• mentor
• author
• metaphysician
• modern-day mystic

Veronika Robinson has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing, is the author of over thirty books, including several for celebrants including The Five Elements; The Successful Celebrant; Write That Eulogy; Funerals for Children; The Discrimination-free Celebrant.

 

If you’re interested in being on the list for our

Autumn 2025 Retreat, do get in touch.