Be Fertile With Your Infertility
by Christine Bannan and Winnie DugganThis wonderful resource, co-authored by Celebrant School lecturer, Winnie Duggan, demonstrates how ceremony and ritual can aid one of life’s most heart-breaking challenges. This book aims to help anyone facing infertility, in all its stages and forms, to access options for ceremony and ritual and hence to find their own creative way to a peaceful, accepting place for themselves.
Included are personal stories and examples of ceremony to help you or your clients to create your own ceremony and ritual around infertility, where some of the hurt and sadness brought about by this dilemma can find healing.
This book provides possibilities and pathways to enable this to happen. It is hoped this process will be a creative and effective way to move towards a new freedom in living with infertility.
Order your copy by emailing winnie@lifecelebrant.co.nz and as a TCS student or alumni you can use this TCSDISC code to get it at the discounted price of $10 + P&P.
If you are Auckland-based you can collect your copy from Kathrine.
Down to Earth – The Changing Funeral Needs of a Changing Society
by Marian BarnesMarian was a long-time campaigner for the right of non-religious people to have secular funerals.
This book was first published in 1991, and demand was so high when it went out-of-print, that she made it available for copying and distribution by The Celebrant School. This extremely thorough resource is a funeral classic, covers everything from the historic antecedents of the contemporary funeral, through funerals vs memorials, lowering vs not lowering the casket, considerations around death notices in newspapers, a sample funeral, readings and much more.
A highly recommended resource, this is now being made available digitally, in return for a donation to support services and research into Parkinsons Disease. If you prefer printed resources, this version is easily able to be double-side photocopied and spiral bound.
This is Farewell: Readings and meditations on death and dying
by Pinky AgnewOur beloved celebrant colleague, author, and performing artist, Pinky Agnew, compiled this beautiful anthology based at the convergence of her lifelong love of poetry and her work with grieving families. She launched it on International Women’s Day in 2022 in a ceremony facilitated by Winnie Duggan, who paid tribute to this work of love. In it you will find poems, philosophical reflections and meditations, both ancient and modern, homegrown in Aotearoa New Zealand and from far away shores. It’s a delightful and indispensable resource for celebrants.
Order your copy by emailing pinky@pinkyagnew.com ($35 + P&P) and as a TCS student or alumni you can use this TCSDISC code to get 15% discount.