Funeral Celebrant Courses

This is a comprehensive two day intensive course, that provides you with knowledge and skills to confidently begin funeral celebrant practice. As well as considering key theroretic ideas, you will develop a logical step-by-step process to plan, write, deliver and reflect on a funeral service. 

The workshop will introduce you to key knowledge and skills. Afterwards, you have the opportunity to develop these through targeted on-line assignments. 

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Describe the purposes of a funeral service
• Discuss funeral ceremony as a rite-of-passage ceremony
• Discuss funeral service structure and components
• Identify key terms and roles in the funeral industry
• Describe a step-by-step process from booking to post-service reflection
• Demonstrate effective client interviewing skills
• Demonstrate cultural and spiritual responsiveness
• Identify health and safety requirements
• Develop key documents and resources
• Discuss self-care
• Explain ritual enactments and their meanings
• Write three funeral services
• Deliver a funeral service