Next training courses for Funeral Celebrants

February 2010 - Worthing, West Sussex and Central Scotland

Wednesday 3rd - Friday 5th February 2010

 

THEN

April 2010 - Newcastle

Wednesday 21st - Friday 23rd April 2010

 

To Book a place Phone 07752 212 067 or 01903 602795

 

The 3 DAY course will cover all aspects of Funeral Celebrancy, including:

Helping families in Grief

Family Meetings

Service Planning

Music/Poetry/Reading Resources

Eulogy Writing

Presentation Skills

What to do on the day, and how to conduct a funeral.

The working of Crematoria and Cemeteries

How to market yourself to funeral directors and to the public.

Course fee £750 includes refreshments and buffet lunch.
The course fee does not include accomodation, but there are plenty of Hotels and Bed & Breakfasts close by.

Course Leaders

Terri Shanks
Terri trained as a Celebrant with Carole Poole who was then the UK President of the Australian based 'International Federation of Celebrants'. She has subsequently built up a very successful business working as a Celebrant throughout Sussex. In May 2007 she went to Oklahoma, USA to study at the In-Sight Institute with Doug Manning, (an author of over 30 books, a world leading lecturer in the field of understanding bereavement & grief, and trainer of over 1000 Celebrants throughout America) Terri was also fortunate to attend the first ever International Convention of Independent Celebrants in Oklahoma, where she was invited to speak to Celebrants from throughout the USA, Canada and New Zealand.
Terri now uses her wealth of knowledge and experience to train other Celebrants not only from the UK, but from other countries throughout the world too.
For further information please contact Terri Shanks
Telephone:
Email: 01903 602795
info@sussexcelebrant.co.uk

Neil Dorward
Neil Dorward has worked in the world of training, learning and development for over 17 years within education, the health service and the manufacturing industry. He is a CIPD Graduate with a Masters level Diploma in HRM and has CIPD training qualifications. He was one of the first people in the UK to gain a Diploma in Funeral Celebrancy from the highly regarded International College of Celebrancy in Australia and has recently been granted license to facilitate this diploma within the UK.
In 2005, Neil became the first full time Civil Funeral Celebrant in Scotland and established the leading celebrancy company in Scotland called Bespoke Civil Ceremonies. He has created his own training course for prospective celebrants and has set the standards of excellence for funeral celebrants in Scotland.
He is a full member of the prestigious Professional Speakers Association and is regularly invited to deliver keynote addresses to the business world on the subjects of legacy, funerals and death. He has several articles published in America and the UK and has just published his first book on how to be a passionate and effective speaker at a at a funeral.

Bespoke Civil Ceremonies - Standards of Excellence

When a telephone enquiry is made to hire a Funeral Celebrant, the Funeral Director will receive a prompt and courtesy response.

After receiving a confirmed booking, the Funeral Celebrant shall phone the family that evening to offer their condolences and arrange a family visit within 12 – 24 hours.

The family interview will be conducted in a sensitive and unhurried manner and if necessary further telephone calls will be made to those unable to attend the family interview to gather further material about the deceased.

A draft version of the service will be written in a creative, engaging and non-chronological way. After it is typed, it will be emailed (or hand delivered) to the family immediately.

At the family interview full biographical details will be noted and discussions will be made regarding poetry, music, family and friends delivering a tribute and any other aspect of the funeral service that the family request. Any unusual requests such as the display of photographs, memorial book, videoing of a service will be made in conjunction with the Funeral Director and Crematorium staff.

The family is given the maximum amount of time possible to add, change or delete anything from the draft. The family’s edit is final. Every detail of the final draft is re-checked by the celebrant for errors and spelling mistakes.

The Funeral Celebrant will phone the family the evening before the funeral to confirm details are correct for the next day.

The celebrant delivers the ceremony with passion, sensitivity, clarity, dignity compassion. They speak from the heart, using all their speaking skills that Bespoke Civil Ceremonies training have given them.

A memorial copy of the tribute (only) is given to the family after the service.

The starting point for all is funeral is neither religion, secularism or humanism but the individual wishes, beliefs and needs of the family. A Civil Funeral can be religious, semi religious or non religious.

Celebrants will not discuss personal details of any funeral to anyone other than the family and will be sensitive, diplomatic and polite at all times.

Celebrants will not bring the good name of other celebrants into disrepute or plagiarise their material.