Train To Be a Funeral Celebrant
When you train to be a funeral celebrant at Heart-led Ceremonies Celebrant Training, one of your tutors is Veronika Robinson, author of Write That Eulogy and Funerals For Children (amongst her growing collection of books for celebrants).
The Certificate in Celebrancy: Bereavement Ceremonies offers an in-depth training which begins with three days of tutoring in our Zoom Room. We keep our classes deliberately small for optimal learning. After this, you’ll work on weekly portfolios for twelve weeks. During this time (and beyond certification) you have the option of one-to-one mentoring with Veronika. You’ll also have at least five one-to-one personalised voice and presentation coaching sessions with Paul Robinson.
We leave nothing to chance in our training, and offer a comprehensive funeral-celebrant course to ensure you’ll bring the best of yourself to this profession.
These are some of the topics you’ll cover on your way to earning a Certificate in Celebrancy: Bereavement Ceremonies
Funerals, Memorials and Interment or Scattering of Ashes
- The legalities of the funeral industry
- Essential skills of a funeral celebrant
- Family meetings
- Understanding grief
- Working with the bereaved
- Working with families bereaved by suicide
- Child funerals (pre-term to 18 years)
- Family disputes
- Funeral etiquette
- Working with funeral directors
- Cremation
- Burial
- Eco-burial
- Botanical ash scattering
- This Is Your Life Living Funeral
- Creating meaningful farewells
- Writing meaningful eulogies
- Crafting a committal
- Writing an Order of Service
- Ordering music and photo tributes from Wesley and Obitus
- Funerary rituals: writing narrative and choreography
- Time management
- Dealing with vicarious trauma
