Funeral Celebrant Training
The Distance Learning Course
If you are a toastmaster and also interested in becoming a funeral celebrant, but the timing of the course is inconvenient or it is perhaps too far to travel long distances from home to train then the County Celebrants Network may have the training course for you – The Distance Learning Celebrant Training Course.
Without a doubt it is a fulfilling and challenging role. Being able to help a family by devising and delivering a celebration of life funeral ceremony that exactly meets their wishes and leaves them with good memories at a painful time, is personally rewarding.
Qualities that a funeral celebrant might require will be public speaking ability, interviewing techniques, a calm reassuring manner – all that a professional toastmaster has!
However, compassion and empathy for the grieving families is one of the more important aspects of the role of a funeral celebrant, recognising the grief-process and its relevance to the ‘celebration of life’ ceremony can at times be challenging when constructing a meaningful service that reflects the wishes of the family.
So please give it some thought before applying; not everyone can handle the grief stricken emotional moments or the distressing situations that can often occur during visits after bereavement.
Times and customs are changing and more and more people are now looking for contemporary and distinctive funerals that reflect their own life, values and beliefs and you may just be the person to fill that need.
It is a fact that with less than one in twenty of us regularly attending a place of worship but only one in seven being atheist, there are potentially over 350,000 funerals a year needing an independent funeral celebrant to hold a ceremony.
This practical, informative, challenging and inspiring distance learning programme teaches you the skills you need to become a funeral celebrant; gives you time for assignments, and supports you through your Funerals.
Learning about how to talk to bereaved families: what makes a good funeral ceremony, how to create a ceremony, words for the opening, tribute, committal and closing weaving the threads of a life into a colourful tapestry, full of meaning and ritual?
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