Marriage Celebrant Essentials
starting 17 August 2022 (Online Short Course)This very popular, on-line, short course provides all the essentials for starting out on the right foot as a marriage celebrant. It ensures a thorough knowledge of the legalities imposed by the Marriage Act and recent changes affecting celebrants. You will be well set up for applying or renewing your appointment with BDM, and dealing with the tricky legal questions that invariably arise in a public role. You will learn about designing ceremonies at the simpler end of the spectrum. To enable smooth processing of enrolments and adequate time for pre-course student preparation, we prefer enrolments at least one week before course commencement. Enrolments after this date incur a 10% surcharge.
Those interested in crafting fully-personalised ceremonies will be invited to continue into our more advanced module Marriage Celebrant Mastery.
Tuesday 17 August: 7:00pm-9:30pm
Tuesday 24 August: 7:00pm-9:30pm
Tuesday 31 August: 7:00pm-9:30pm
Marriage Celebrant Essentials
starting 24 May 2022 (Online Short Course)This very popular, on-line, short course provides all the essentials for starting out on the right foot as a marriage celebrant. It ensures a thorough knowledge of the legalities imposed by the Marriage Act and recent changes affecting celebrants. You will be well set up for applying or renewing your appointment with BDM, and dealing with the tricky legal questions that invariably arise in a public role. You will learn about designing ceremonies at the simpler end of the spectrum. To enable smooth processing of enrolments and adequate time for pre-course student preparation, we prefer enrolments at least one week before course commencement. Enrolments after this date incur a 10% surcharge.
Those interested in crafting fully-personalised ceremonies will be invited to continue into our more advanced module Marriage Celebrant Mastery.
Tuesday 24 May: 7:00pm-9:30pm
Tuesday 31 May: 7:00pm-9:30pm
Tuesday 7 June: 7:00pm-9:30pm
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL! Be quick to check out our August dates.
Ceremony and Celebration – Foundation Course
11/12 & 18/19 June (all dates online)This is recommended as the first course to undertake for the Certificate in Celebrant Studies (although other entry points are possible too). It establishes a firm understanding of the nature of ceremony and ritual and the role of the celebrant in Aotearoa-New Zealand, builds essential writing and delivery skills, and provides a framework for the planning and design of a broad range of contemporary ceremonies .
Funeral Celebrant Course
starting 4 July 2022 - an online combination of evening and weekend sessionsThis course is designed for those who wish to be competent to design ceremonies for funerals and memorials and confidently officiate as the funeral celebrant at these events. It also provides an opportunity for continuing education for experienced funeral celebrants to explore new dimensions in their work, and other practising celebrants who decide they are ready to move into this area. This course will be delivered entirely by Zoom, which has the benefit of increasing the capacity of students to incorporate such technologies in their ceremonial kete.
Transition Through Change and Crisis
advanced celebrant course starting 5 September 2022 - by evening and weekend Zoom sessionsPrerequisite: Ceremony & Celebration Module
This is an advanced course providing training in the design and delivery of ceremonies for transition through change and crisis – whether personal, family or community (e.g. illness, bereavement, abuse, infertility, separation and divorce, natural disasters etc). It is designed principally for those who have some experience as celebrants (or facilitators) and who wish to extend their practice into this area.
Evening sessions online Monday 5, 12, 19 & 26th September 2022: 7.00 – 9.30pm
Weekend online Saturday 8th & 9th October (9.30am – 4.00pm) Session time may vary depending on group size