This vibrant and professional school provides high quality training and continuing education for celebrants throughout the country. New Zealanders are increasingly using civil celebrants for special occasions in their lives. These milestones include baby naming ceremonies, weddings, civil unions, and funerals. Today, there is much more demand for civil celebrants (eg marriage and funeral celebrants). The public have an increasing expectation about the quality of these celebrants, including that they be trained and professional. They are also wanting people who are warm and genuine, and are committed to designing creative and appropriate ceremonies.

The Celebrant School has been established to provide high quality professional training for civil celebrants. It carries on the excellent training certificate originally developed and taught at AUT University.

The part-time programme in Auckland and includes:

• The Certificate in Celebrant Studies
This training is both for those who wish to be professional celebrants, and for those who want to assist their family and friends with life transitions and celebrations. It is also suitable for professionals such as social workers, teachers, counsellors, nurses, etc., who would like to integrate this training into their work, for example by utilising ceremony and ritual for transitions in people's lives. This programme is suitable both for those with no celebrancy experience, and for practising celebrants who want formal training or who want to explore new dimensions in their work...the new Certificate schedule is out for 2012..read more....

• Celebrant Continuing Education
These programmes enable practising celebrants to extend and deepen their work with postgraduate papers, master classes and workshops... the new Continuing Education schedule is out for 2012...read more

Celebrant School Director

Mary Hancock

Mary has been a celebrant for over twenty-five years and is a founding member of the Celebrants Association of New Zealand. Mary has been training celebrants at AUT University for the last twelve years.... read more...