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Will Being a Celebrant Make Your Heart Sing? (Or asked another way, “Am I cut out to be a Celebrant?”) By Elaine Voci, Ph.D.
START A NEW MEANINGFUL VIABLE CAREER BECOME A CERTIFIED LIFE-CYCLE CELEBRANT NOW!
Course Curriculum: Wedding Celebrancy Funeral Celebrancy Ceremonies Across the Life-Cycle Ceremonies for Healing CF&I Master Life-Cycle Celebrant Life-Cycle Ceremonies for the LGBTQ Community Workshop and Certification French - Weddings and Funerals, Life-Cycle Ceremonies A Handbook for your whole Life
How to Honor the Elders in Your Family by Diane Gansauer One-Step Moments of Mindfulness By Cristina Kollet
About our French Program
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Marcia Almeida, Master Life-Cycle Celebrant - CF&I Social Media Manager Photos courtesy of: Celeb rant Foundation and Institute Charlotte Eulette, International Director Celebrant Foundation & Charlotte Eulette, Institute Formation - officiant - laique , http://www.formation, celebrant.com Solange Strougmayer, Marcia Almeida , Master Life - Cycle Celebrant - http:/ /weddings - bodas.com Michele Davidson , Life - Cycle Celebrant - Vancouver & Whistler BC http://moderncelebrant.ca Sheil ly M Hernandez Cover Photo: Heather Anderson, Life-Cycle Celebrant - Denver Colorado Cover Photo: Graphic: Marcia Almeida Please direct all request, comment or concerns about our :CF&I E-Brochure, to our Social Media Manager ~ Marcia Almeida, Master Life-Cycle Celebrant. at celebrantsocialmedia@gmail.com Or to the Celebrant Foundation & Institute’s Director, Charlotte Eulette at:charlotteeulette@celebrantinstitute.org or call (973)746-1792. Don’t hesitate to visit our website at www.celwww.celebrantinstitute.org ebrantinstitute.org
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CELEBRANT FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE Montclair, New Jersey, United States The Celebrant Foundation & Institute is dedicated to educating people about the importance of ceremony and rituals marking the important transitions in life. The Institute offers certificate programs in Ceremonies for Couples, Ceremonies for Funerals, Healing and Transition, Ceremonies for Families and Children and Ceremonies for Organizations. Take courses online from the comfort of your desk as you benefit from the guidance of our faculty. With our programs geared toward serious adult learners, your fellow students and our faculty will challenge and inspire you to achieve your goals with our courses. It is the Celebrant Foundation & Institute's mission to serve and embrace people from all walks of life by offering a gold-standard study program that educates and trains people to become professional, Certified Civil Life-Cycle Celebrants with expertise in ceremony and ritual. Yours truly, Charlotte Eulette, International Director Celebrant Foundation & Institute Epicenter for Life-Cycle Ceremony Revolutionaries Non-profit Educational Organization Official Member of the International Federation of Celebrants Celebrating our Fourteenth Year Anniversary 2001 - 2015 WS: www.celebrantinstitute.org French WS: http://www.formation-celebrant.com EM: charlotteeulette@celebrantinstitute.org PH: 973.746.1792 FX: 973.746.1775 Solange Strougmayer, Directrice France de la Celebrant Foundation & Institute (Fondation et Institut de CĂŠlĂŠbrants) au formation@celebrerlavie.com ou +33.667.492.319
CELEBRANT - the leading Encore Career as reported by Forbes, CNN, Parade & Money Magazine
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Will Being a Celebrant Make Your Heart Sing? (Or asked another way, “Am I cut out to be a Celebrant?”)
There will never be another you. The world has never seen anyone quite like you before, nor will it ever find another just like you again. You are one of a kind and you have something to contribute to this life that the world needs from you. In fact, my definition of a calling is the intersection where your unique passion meets a deep hunger in the world. If you are feeling drawn to studying the art of ceremony and you are thinking about entering Celebrant school, this is a perfect time to interview yourself with a few key questions: What kind of people do you enjoy being around? What are the values, goals and purposes that are important to you? In what kind of working conditions do you do your best work? What values do you want your life to serve while you are here on earth? All of these questions are important but that last one – answering how you want your life values to serve the world - is the most important. After all, your life is your creation, a work of art that you will leave behind as your legacy when your journey here on earth is done. 4
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The next step is understanding that being a Celebrant does not require an extensive list of qualities or specific life experiences; interview 3 celebrants and you will find 3 different personalities and three different life paths that led them to their chosen career. But being a Celebrant does require that you possess these defining interests/aptitudes: A fascination with stories. Celebrants are story tellers; they live and breathe listening to, asking about, talking about and sharing stories. When they meet new people, they often find themselves soon asking ‘Tell me how you got started in this career’ or ‘How did you two meet?’ and ‘Who influenced you the most when you were growing up?’ Celebrants love stories, and they love telling them to others, at the slightest provocation!! A deep appreciation for ritual and ceremony, for rites of passage and for acknowledging the ongoing transitions of life. From the time they are young, celebrants seem to gravitate toward ceremony and rituals of all kinds; they might have played “school” and pretended to be the teacher on opening day, or they might have organized after school parties when they were teens, and played the hostess; or they may have regularly volunteered to be on the Prom Committee, or the New Student Orientation Committee, always eager to participate in life’s passages in one form or another. A genuine love of serving people, helping them recognize their significant life journeys, talking to them and listening to them about what they need emotionally and spiritually, attending to their needs, celebrating success and joyful events, while also being supportive during difficult transitions. The goal of their service is not to become wealthy, but to earn a decent living while deeply serving something greater than themselves through work that makes them feel blessed to do it. For no matter how much money we make, subjectively we’ll be “rich” when we are true to our vocation and “poor” when we betray it, or ignore it. So, are you ready to enroll in class and start moving toward your future vocation? You can contact the Celebrant Foundation & Institute at www.celebrantinstitute.org/ Celebrant Foundation & Institute Blog Editor ~ Elaine Voci, Ph.D. Elaine is a Certified Life Cycle Celebrant and provides individuals and families in the greater Indianapolis area with personalized and unique ceremonies that mark life’s important transitions. She is also a Life Coach in private practice, specializing in career coaching, in Carmel, Indiana and the author of four inspirational and educational books. She is proud and happy to be our CF&I Blog editor! You can reach Elaine at elainevoci@gmail.com.
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Life-Cycle Celebrants® are masterfully trained at the Celebrant Foundation & Institute in the art of ritual and ceremony and to be a professional Life-Cycle Celebrant.
Did you know that CNN, Money and Parade Magazine report Celebrants as a Top 10 Career for Career Changers? Celebrants co-create and perform personal, customized weddings, funerals and many other life-cycle ceremony that reflect the needs, beliefs and values of the people from all walks of life. Being a Celebrant is not only a lucrative profession, it’s a pro-passion! Learn more and view videos at http://www.celebrantinstitute.org I invite you to join us for one of our upcoming free, live, interactive and informative Webinars are hosted live by Charlotte Eulette, International Director and Mark Attalla, Director of Technology. Our vibrant webinars will quickly introduce you to our course of studies and this wonderful career. Why become a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant? For over a decade, professional Celebrants have co-created and officiated at millions of personalized and meaningful ceremonies. Celebrant Holly Pruett - My Own Story: “Don’t you love arriving at just the right place without knowing it was where you were headed? Becoming a Celebrant is not something I could have predicted – but it turns out to be the perfect expression of my own life story. A graduate of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, I spent 7 months studying all aspects of Celebrant ceremony design and delivery. It gave me an incredible network of mentors and colleagues. Now as a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant ®, I am able to offer my skills to individuals, families, organizations and communities to mark the meaningful passages from cradle to grave.”
Celebrants thoroughly enjoy their interesting, heart-warming, socially conscious and money-making practice. Be a rite-of-passage activist, activating people’s lives! 6
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Celebrant Foundation & Institute offers the following certifications. You can take one or more! · Wedding Celebrancy · Funeral Celebrancy · Ceremonies for Healing & Transition · Ceremonies Across the Life Cycle · Masters in Celebrancy
The Celebrant Foundation & Institute (non-profit) is delighted to invite you to come and study with us to become a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant® and be a part of our nurturing and dynamic international alumni community. Not only will you be enrolling in our exciting and enriching live, on-line, state of the art, distance-learning study program, you will also be on your way to a new, viable profession. Our courses are taught in English and in French. Thank you!
Course Curriculum Programs in Celebrancy Studies What is a Life-Cycle Celebrant? Celebrants are trained professionals who believe in the power and effectiveness of ceremony and ritual to guide us through life's changes and milestone moments. The Celebrant's mission is to create a ceremony that reflects a client's beliefs, philosophy of life, and personality. The Celebrant comes to the table with no agenda; no preconceived notion of what the ceremony should or must look like. Instead, through careful interviewing and a thoughtful process, the Celebrant elicits what is meaningful for each client. After a thorough client interview, we write, rewrite, rehearse, and perform ceremonies. Life-Cycle Celebrants come from all walks of life and a college degree is not a prerequisite. We are looking for highly motivated students who have an interest in ceremony and ritual, public speaking experience, excellent writing abilities, organizational skills, computer abilities, and a love of the arts and working with people. Foreign languages are a plus. Above all, the Celebrant candidate must be committed to the Celebrant philosophy: Creating personalized ceremonies for people of all beliefs and value systems. Why Become a Life-Cycle Celebrant Certified by the Celebrant Institute? Listen to what students are saying about the course: I'm not only extremely excited to now be a practicing Celebrant, but incredibly CONFIDENT in my vocation - and it's because of the support of my classmates, instructor and the Celebrant Foundation. I honestly cannot thank you enough. I'm CF&I 2015
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incredibly pleased with my investment. - Class of 2008 graduate "It exceeded my expectations and I am grateful for the experience. It has expanded my understanding of ritual and ceremony and the role they can play in our individual, family and community lives to enhance our relationships and connections to one another, as well as increase our self-awareness." ~ Class of 2009 graduate "I am amazed at how in such a short time our study group has developed the sense of safety and trust with each other to share the stories and moments of pain/change/growth of our lives. It sets this class apart as being more than just a handing out of information as in traditional classes. This class has become in itself a transformational process and a feeding of one's soul." ~ Class of 2007 graduate Our Innovative Online Learning Program. Classes are taught in an innovative online program via real-time participatory web conferencing classes, supplemented by a multimedia online classroom and message board forums. The curriculum is delivered by in-depth class briefs and readings, podcast, videocast, slideshows, and webinar presentations. Our varied modes of curriculum delivery appeal to all sorts of learners and allow students to form close bonds with their classmates and instructors. Our teachers are all experienced Life-Cycle Celebrants, eager to share their real-world experiences with their students, and passionate about Celebrancy.
Our Certificate Courses
The Celebrant Foundation & Institute offers three certificate tracks: Wedding Celebrancy Funeral Celebrancy Ceremonies Across the Life-Cycle Ceremonies for Healing Fundamentals of Celebrancy: All students are required to take our prerequisite course Fundamentals of Celebrancy, a three-month, eight-module class, covers all the elements you need to create effective ceremony no matter which specialty course you'll be taking. Week by week, you'll learn Celebrant philosophy and history, ceremony structure, rites of passage theory, symbolism, storytelling, ceremonial public speaking, and introductory client relations. Students will study and analyze the works of authors who provide the foundation of ritual theory, such as Rites of Passage by Arnold van Gennep, Deeply Into the Bone by Ronald Grimes, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Rites of Passage: Celebrating Life's Changes by Kathleen Wall & Gary Ferguson, and The Art of Ritual by Renee Beck & Sydney Metrick. Fundamentals of Celebrancy Prerequisites: None Topics Covered: 8
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• History and Ideals of Celebrancy • Ceremony Structure • Rites of Passage Theory • Arnold Van Gennep and Rites of Passage • Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey • Ronald Grimes and Ceremony Creation • Symbolism • Storytelling • Ceremonial Public Speaking • Client Relationships and Interviewing • Ceremony Observation Report Certificate Courses. You'll finish up by choosing the certificate program of your choice - Weddings, Funerals, or Ceremonies for Families & Children. Each course is eight modules long and is taught through a combination of real-time weekly web conferencing classes, message board discussion, practical exercises, and culminates in a course-long assignment of writing an original ceremony.
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Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Celebrancy Ceremonies included: Weddings, Commitment Ceremonies, Vow Renewals, Engagements, and Anniversaries Selected texts for the Weddings concentration include The Conscious Bride by Sheryl Paul and Joining Hands and Heart by Susanna Macomb. Topics Covered:
Legal Issues for Wedding Celebrants Wedding Ceremony Structure Client Relations, Interviewing, and Fee Setting Storytelling and Ceremony Writing Creating Rituals for Weddings Comparative Rituals for Weddings Case Studies: Personalized, Spiritual, Interfaith, and Same-Sex Weddings CF&I 2015
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Managing Rehearsals Performing Weddings Commitment Ceremonies Engagements, Vow Renewals, and Anniversaries Wedding Ceremony Writing Assignment Wedding Ceremony Observation Report Marketing for the Wedding Celebrant
Funeral Celebrancy:
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Celebrancy Ceremonies included: Funerals, Memorials, Pet Funerals, End of Life Celebrations, Working with Pre-Need Clients, Ceremonies for Disposition of the Body, Home Funerals/Green Burials. Selected texts for the Funerals concentration include Sacred Dying by Megory Anderson and Remembering Well by Sarah York. Topics Covered: • Funeral Ceremony Structure • Ceremonies for Committal of the Body • The Eulogy • Interviewing Clients and Working with Families • Case Studies: Personalized Funerals, Funerals for Traumatic Deaths • Creative Funeral Rituals • Comparative Funeral Rituals • Performing Funerals • Working with the Funeral Industry • Pet Funerals • Pre-Need Funeral Ceremony Clients; End of Life Celebrations • Funeral Ceremony Writing Assignment • Funeral Ceremony Observation Report • Trends: Home Funerals and Green Burial • Marketing for the Funeral Celebrant
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Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Celebrancy Ceremonies included: Ceremonies for Expectant Parents, Baby Namings & Welcomings, Coming of 10
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Age, Milestone Birthdays, Graduations, Ceremonies for Homes, Personal Ritual, Men's and Women's Midlife Passages, Seasonal Ceremonies, Career Change, Retirement Topics Covered: • Becoming Parents: Ceremonies for Expectancy Becoming a Family: Ceremonies to Welcome Children Adolescent & Young Adult Coming of Age Coming Home: Ceremonies for Dwellings Gathering Families: Graduations, Milestone Birthdays, and Family Reunions Men's and Women's Midlife Passages Career Change and Retirement Personal Ritual Honoring the Seasons, Celebrating the Earth Interviewing Clients and Working with Families Ceremony Development and Performance Ceremony Writing Assignment Ceremony Observation Report Marketing
Ceremonies for Healing: Alumni course This eight-module certificate course will examine the role of the Life-Cycle Celebrant in creating and performing ceremonies for healing from the most challenging events in life. Primarily using the case study method, students will learn the elements to include in a variety of healing ceremonies and brainstorm creative ways to move clients through transformative and powerful processes, keeping in mind the boundary between professional therapy and celebrancy. Prerequisite: Must have completed (or be taking simultaneously one CF&I Certificate course) Wedding Celebrancy, Funeral Celebrancy or Ceremonies across the Life Cycle (formerly Ceremonies for Families & Children)]. • Working with Clients in Crisis: Boundaries between Therapist & Celebrant • Healing from Illness • Healing in Relationships • Healing at Work • Personal Ritual for Difficult Transitions • Sacred Dying and Bereavement • Healing in Community
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CF&I Master Life-Cycle Celebrant
The Celebrant Foundation & Institute is thrilled to offer our re-mastered, Master Life-Cycle Celebrant® Program. Fittingly, this program honors our experienced Celebrants as we celebrate our fourteenth anniversary year. This academic and service program is designed to provide a "Master" designation to those of you at the forefront of our Celebrant movement who are committed to being continuing leaders and mentors in our community. The Master Life-Celebrant® Certificate program recognizes experienced Life-Cycle Celebrants® who are dedicated to their craft and their community, and to providing outreach on the importance of ceremony and ritual. It is designed for those Celebrants who seek to become leaders and mentors within our Celebrant movement. The program is open to those who have at least three years of Celebrant practice experience, and who are certified in each of the three specialty courses we offer: Weddings, Funerals, Families and Children/Healings. Celebrants must also be Celebrant Association Members. This challenging nine month program requires candidates to complete a number of projects: a phone interview upon acceptance, a mini refresher course, Master research project, submission of portfolio of Celebrant Work and a 20-30 minute end-of-course recorded interview with CF&I Master Program Director Sandee Monahan. Sandra M. Monahan, Founder and President of Weddings Without Worries, Wexford, PA, earned the designation of Master Life-Cycle Celebrant in 2012, and has achieved certifications in four Celebrant Foundation and Institute Certificates. She serves as co-facilitator for the CF&I PA-Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter Group and has served as chairperson for the Weddings and Military and Veteran's Committees. The mainstay of her services includes creating and officiating personalized wedding ceremonies and those for all of life's rites of passage ceremonies. As a Minister/Director for Universal Brotherhood Movement, Sandra has ordained many Celebrants and offers her mentoring skills across the country. Tuition Information For tuition information please access our Programs of Celebrancy Studies Pamphlet, specifically page 10 : Studies Pamphlet. Admissions Director at (973) 746 -1792 We are happy to talk with you and offer you our special monthly tuition payment program. Thank you! Applying for Admission To apply for admission, you'll need to submit the following by email: • Your resume • An application cover sheet (downloadable here); and A personal statement on why you want to become a Celebrant (2 pages). The Institute may then conduct an in-person or telephone interview with you. Your application materials may be submitted by email (preferred) to Charlotteeulette@Celebrantinstitute.org, fax to (973) 746-1775, or by regular mail. 12
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LIFE-CYCLE CEREMONIES FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY WORKSHOP AND CERTIFICATION
The Celebrant Foundation & Institute is proud to offer LIFE-CYCLE CEREMONIES FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY WORKSHOP and CERTIFICATION to our experienced Life-Cycle Celebrants. Our goal is to assist veteran Life-Cycle Celebrants in serving their LGBTQ communities with even more heart and professionalism. Whether you have a Weddings, Funerals, Across the Life-Cycle, or Healings certification (or ALL OF THE ABOVE), it is our hope that you will benefit from taking this engaging, informative and first of its kind workshop.
CF&I is on the vanguard in creating this workshop/certificate course that highlights not just LGBTQ weddings, but all life-cycle ceremonies.
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Life-Cycle Ceremonies
A Handbook for your whole Life
In the Roots and Wings chapter of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute’s new book, we are
reminded this fall season of the ritual value of family stories and traditions such as “storytime." Diane Gansauer outlines a tribute ceremony you can construct with the help of the very person, like the matriarch of your family, you want to honor. Each of these ceremonies is specific, and yet each can be adopted to fit any group you live with or love. A family is no longer defined by parents and children or even by household. But it’s still a great container for belonging and a worthy thing to serve!
How to Honor the Elders in Your Family
My family was discussing the upcoming 98th birthday of our Aunt Helen, who survived the Great Depression and tended the home front while her three brothers fought for our country in World War II. We agreed that we shouldn’t wait to honor Helen but should instead pay tribute to her while she was able to enjoy the moment. Preparation: I started calling Helen to listen to her stories. She’d start out by saying that she wasn’t feeling very well, but before long it was hard to keep up with all the memories that poured out of her. By the fall, I had printed a mini-biography that Helen could edit. Here’s how we prepared for the tribute dinner: I wrote a simple ceremony on the theme of “the family tree.” A family member brought a beautiful hand-drawn family tree tracing our heritage back to the 1500s. We booked a banquet room and placed on each table a small tree on which people could hang notes to Helen. We set a table with photos of family members who had passed away and gave thanks for their presence in our lives. Each person was given a card extolling the example trees provide by sinking roots into the ground and by changing with the seasons. The youngest children brought small gifts to give Helen.
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The Tribute On Helen’s big night, family members gathered at a banquet room near her home. We shared mealtime grace and named loved ones who could not make the journey. And then my husband gave a funny speech that put Helen’s life in historical context: “Aunt Helen has outlasted almost everything from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Phyllis Diller.” Then family members took turns reading parts of Helen’s poignant and funny story out loud. Later that evening, when she heard her favorite big band music, Helen led the dancing. When she looked around and said, “They all came!” I knew we had not only honored her but had also given her—and the whole family—a very happy memory. In Closing There is no simpler, more beautiful way to honor someone than to make room for their story to be told. By listening, we affirm the one who lived the story and we protect it from being lost. As time goes on, questions and observations by the youngest family members reveal that they are keeping these family stories in their hearts. Diane Gansauer is a Life-Cycle Celebrant® with certification in Funerals and Ceremonies Across the Life Cycle. Director of Celebrant services Dignity Memorial, Metro Denver. She lives in the foothills of Evergreen, Colorado, with her husband, Bob. Diane can be reached by email at diane@lyricallifeceremonies.com or through her website, www.lyricallifeceremonies.com.
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Sustenance Rituals to Replenish the Well By CRISTINA KOLLET
ONE-STEP MOMENTS OF MINDFULNESS
Sustenance rituals are little moments of mindfulness we can use to catch our breath and find our center. Think of them as elements of personal maintenance, ways to take care of and reconnect with yourself.
Here are a few easy ones you can work into your daily routine: • Take the stairs. You can make a walking meditation out of taking the stairs. This can be especially helpful at the end of your workday. Feel the rhythm of each step you take. With each step, leave behind some of the troubles of your day and think about getting closer to the comforts of home or some activity you’re looking forward to. By the time you have reached the bottom step, you may feel a little less burdened—and ready to reenter the world. • Get some light. Many of us suffer from the winter blues, and if you work long hours, odds are that you don’t ever get as much sunlight as you would like. So make some time to step outside. Take a walk during your lunch break or look out the window. It’s an easy way to literally brighten your day. • Sort it out. The simple act of sorting can be a way to bring symbolic order to chaos. So sort your socks or dump your change jar and sort the coins. Putting things in their place can be very calming.
GIVE IT A TRY These all may seem like simple things. Perhaps some of them are things you already do. What makes it a sustenance ritual, though, is mindful action. Set a clear intention when you do these things, and then do them with purpose of taking care of yourself. That will make these everyday actions that much more potent. CRISTINA KOLLET is a Master Life-Cycle Celebrant® and Certified NJ Civil Celebtant with certification in Weddings, Funerals, and Ceremonies Across the Life Cycle. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Paul, and their pride of cats. Cristina can be reached by email at cristina.kollet@inclusiveceremonies.com or through her website, www.inclusiveceremonies.com.
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French Program
Qu'est-ce qu'un Celebrant! Les celebrants ou officiants sont des professionnels qualifies qui croient en la puissance et l'efficacite de la ceremonie et des rituels pour repondre aux besoins fondamentaux de la societe et l'individu. La mission du celebrant est d'aider le client a creer une ceremonie qui reflete ses convictions, sa philosophie de la vie et sa personnalite. Le celebrant est laic, sans programme ou idee preconcue de ce que la ceremonie devrait etre ou devrait ressembler. Au lieu de cela, par le biais d'interviews, decoute, dattention, le Celebrant suscite ce qui est significatif pour chaque client. . Les Celebrants du cycle de la vie viennent de tous les horizons et aucun diplome d'etudes n'est pre'requis pour s'inscrire. Nous recherchons des etudiants motives qui ont ou voient un interet dans la ceremonie et le rituel, l'experience de la prise de parole en public, d'excellentes capacites d'ecriture, des competences organisationnelles, les competences de base en informatique, et un amour de l'art et de la maniere de travailler avec les gens. Les langues etrangeres sont un plus. Surtout, le candidat celebrant doit etre attache a la philosophie des Celebrants: Creation de ceremonies personnalisees pour les personnes de toutes les croyances et tout systemes de valeurs. USA Today (ceremonies de divorce), le New York Times (la profession de Celebrant de mariage et ceremonies), et le Utne Reader (formation continue). Pour plus de coupures de presse, Cliquez Visitez-nous ici Ci-dessous vous trouverez les details sur la prochaine annee universitaire 2015 , y compris le calendrier du programme, un apercu du contenu des cours, une description de notre programme d'apprentissage en ligne novateur, des renseignements utiles en matiere d'informatique, de l'information sur les frais de scolarite et les modalites dinscription. Veuillez nous contacter par telephone ou par courriel si vous desirez plus d'informations CF&I 2015 17
ou desirez postuler pour les programmes de la CF & I dans le cadre des etudes de Celebrant. Nous sommes impatients dentreprendre avec vous, ce voyage qui change la vie. Cordialement, Vous pouvez aussi contacter Solange Strougmayer, Directrice France de la Celebrant Foundation & Institute (Fondation et Institut de Célébrants) au formation@celebrerlavie.com ou +33.667.492.319 AVIS DE LA POLITIQUE non discriminatoire et aux etudiants : la Fondation & Institut des Celebrants est un organisme a but non lucratif 501 (c) (3) charitable. L'ecole admet des etudiants de toute race, de toute orientation sexuelle, religion, couleur, nationalite et origine ethnique de tous les droits, privileges, programmes et activites generalement reconnus ou mis a la disposition des etudiants de l'ecole. Elle ne fait pas de discrimination sur la base de la race, le sexe, la religion, l'orientation sexuelle, la couleur, l'origine ethnique et nationale dans l'administration de ses politiques educatives, les politiques d'admission, les programmes de bourses et de prets, et les programmes scolaires administres sportives et.
Become Wedding Officiant with our Online /distant learning Courses
On-line Distant Learning The Celebrant Institute & Foundation offers lively, enriching, educational programs taught via our state-of-the-art, live, real-time, online distance learning teacher-to-student, Web-based classes. Classes take place once a week either on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. We offer a one hour classes in the morning, afternoon or evening. You pick the day and time slot for your weekly one hour class. There’s four hours of homework/projects a week and all the study materials and reading are conveniently housed in our online classroom. The courses are taught by our highly trained and seasoned Celebrant teachers, and each class had no more than eight students per class to ensure a top quality, intimate and deep learning experience for all students. 2011 Graduate, “My Celebrancy practice has taken me to heights I'd never dreamed! I have truly found something I love! Each new ceremony challenges me to bring the best skills, grace, and love to the people and the event they've placed in my hands. I've grown as a human being because of this work! I'm so very grateful for the skills I learned through the Celebrant Institute.” The highly acclaimed, state-of-the-art online classes that we offer our students at the Celebrant Foundation & Institute via online learning or online edu possess the most modern, engaging and effective methods of teaching this new vocation for our Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants as they embark on this time-proven, rewarding and noble new career. CF&I 2015 18
To train to become a Certified Life-Celebrant and to learn more about our course offerings please visit the Become a Celebrant page, download our brochures, review our newsletters, press articles and we joyfully invite you to read sample ceremonies from professional Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants who have conducted personalized milestone ceremonies for people from all walks of life. 2010 Graduate, “I could take all of your courses every day and be a happy camper. I love the content and the connection you offer us. Suppose that would make me a lifelong student for many years. I have not yet run into a course that was not stimulating, challenging and more than interesting - consuming. I am so thankful that your association was out there waiting for me to find you in my search for new directions.” Celebrant Foundation & Institute is a non-profit, international, educational organization and the one of the first world-class rite-of-passage institutes of its kind. It’s students are thoroughly educated and trained by means of our highly developed courses that implements the most progressive On line learning, Distance learning education for their online classes taught by professional Celebrant faculty for them to graduate and become Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants in their communities. Our top notch curriculum for rite-of-passage and coming-of -age ceremonies steeps students in the art of celebration, symbolism and tradition to offer personalized ceremonies that mark the milestones in people’s lives and to reflect the needs, beliefs and values of the couple, individual, organization or family. It is the Celebrant Foundation & Institute’s mission to serve and embrace people from all walks of life by offering a gold-standard study program that educates and trains people to become professional, Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants with expertise in ceremony and ritual. Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants graduate and start their own independent professional Celebrant practice to offer their services to individuals, organizations and communities the opportunity to express themselves authentically via a customized ceremony that pays homage to their significant, womb-to-tomb lifetime events. Once Certified Celebrants graduate from the Celebrant Foundation & Institute they are invited to become a part of our international Celebrant Association family. Our foundation is dedicated to nurturing and supporting each of our ever-growing Celebrant family members as individuals and By the way, the more years and ceremonies Life-Cycle Certified Celebrants have under their belts, the more in demand they are in their beloved communities. Getting older in this profession is a big plus! Our curriculum taught by vastly knowledgeable, professional, seasoned teachers instruct you how to market your skills via social media and other cutting-edge marketing techniques that will enhance your Celebrant practice as a successful entrepreneur. We hope our Institute peaks your interest and you would like to join us and study to become a Certified Life-Cycle CelebrantTM in your community. We invite you to visit the Institute page on our site for more details, or call us at: 973.746.1792. The Celebrant Foundation & Institute's Directors Gaile Sarma, Co-Founder & CEO Charlotte Eulette, Director www.celebrantinstitute.org CF&I 2015
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At this time in your life you need a PRO-PASSION not just a profession.
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