Celebrant training and development:
- Our Connecting Celebrants Conferences run four times per year. At each conference we will cover a training topic related to your celebrant business. The conference will include study groups, workshops and break out groups.
- Professional development workshops will also be offered on an adhoc basis for celebrants.
- Professional Pit Stops are available online every month, where you can share ideas and discuss any issues that arise in your Celebrant business. Benefit from the wisdom, knowledge and support of your peers and professional mentors.
- Quick question? Get answers at our weekly WhatsApp.
- Mentoring – optional opportunity to request 1-1 mentoring (at an additional cost)
- Our training is tailored towards practicing celebrants, both experienced and newly qualified.
- Join our FACEBOOK GROUP to check upcoming training topics, workshop info and dates for our next Connecting Celebrants Conference.
- We do not currently offer new celebrant training.
NOTE: Civil Celebrant Connection is not a replacement for professional mentorship and we highly recommend having regular mentor sessions with an experienced, mature, qualified celebrant who offers one-to-one or group business mentorship, and / or supervision with a qualified counsellor.
Professional Mentorship
We are delighted to offer professional mentorship to Civil Celebrant Connection members at special
community rates.
We have three highly successful, experienced and qualified celebrants on the mentorship team:
Founder Sam Goodchild
Funeral Celebrant Mentor Jon Matson-Higgins
Wedding Celebrant Mentor, Julia Hawkes
Mentoring Options
Before committing to investing in any mentoring support we ask you to take advantage of a
complimentary introductory conversation with the professional mentor of your choice. This call will
enable you to discuss your professional development needs and enable the mentor to determine if
they are able to offer you the required support.
We recognise that different celebrants have different needs and goals therefore each programme will
be completely tailored to the individual needs of each celebrant creating a bespoke package.
We acknowledge that support programmes will look different for wedding celebrants compared to
funeral celebrants. A working funeral celebrant, for example, may benefit from regular on-going
support with shorter check-in sessions on a weekly basis. Ongoing support for a wedding celebrant is
more likely to take the form of longer, monthly or quarterly sessions. It all depends where you are on
your celebrant journey and which industry you are focusing on.
Mentoring Wedding Celebrants
A typical programme of mentorship might include :
- building a brand
- networking with wedding professionals and venues
- Instagram marketing
- how to avoid being ghosted & handling rejection
- capturing the client
- paperwork and organisation
- wedding questionnaires
- attending wedding fayres
- self-care and supervision
- ways to enhance a basic wedding ceremony
- ceremony writing
- ceremony delivery
- applying for a celebrant award
Mentoring Funeral Celebrants
A typical programme of mentorship might include :
- getting established as a new funeral celebrant
- getting established in a new area
- building a brand
- networking within your local community
- marketing yourself to the funeral industry
- handling rejections from funeral industry professionals
- paperwork and organisation
- bereaved client questionnaires and proformas
- self-care and supervision
- ways to enhance a basic funeral ceremony
- ceremony writing
- ceremony delivery
- applying for a celebrant award
Mentoring Options & Your Investment
You can choose to invest in either a one-off individual mentoring session with your chosen mentor or alternatively book a mentoring support package.
Individual Celebrant Support Session – standard price £85 p/hour – community rate £75 p/hour
3 Hour Celebrant Support Package – a three-hour block timetabled to suit both you and your mentor; typically, this would constitute an initial session with two follow-up appointments. Standard price £225.00 – community rate £200
Ongoing Celebrant support Package – over 6 to 12 months Book a block of time with your mentor and agree how you wish to apportion it. (for example, a 3 hour block at the Community rate is £200). Your mentor will provide a quote for other alternatives.
Funeral Celebrants – possible options:
An Initial session of 30 to 60 minutes followed by a package of weekly/fortnightly sessions of 15 to 30 mins for Funeral Celebrants
Wedding Celebrants – possible options:
Monthly or quarterly check-in sessions (30 to 45 minutes per session) for Wedding Celebrants
Please note – Celebrants wishing to access any Celebrant Mentoring will have already completed a celebrant wedding or funeral training programme.
Book your complimentary introductory call:
Write ‘Mentorship’ in the email subject line and if you wish, write a couple of sentences about what you are looking for in your email.
Email your choice of mentor to book:
Sam Goodchild
Funeral or Wedding Celebrants – sam@infinitelove.uk
Jon Matson-Higgins
Funeral Celebrants – jon@jonmatsonhiggins.co.uk
Julia Hawkes
Wedding Celebrants – juliahawkescelebrant@gmail.com
