Professional Practice – Pt 1: Build Your Celebrant Brand
Monday 14, 21 & 28 July 2025$325.00 incl. GST
Prerequisite: Intended for students who have already completed at least one Certificate paper, but practising celebrants wanting to improve their management and marketing systems may apply.
This is the first part of our reformatted Professional Practice paper.
Student feedback has indicated that celebrants often start making decisions about their brand early in their training, and would appreciate some guidance to help avoid expensive mistakes. We have therefore split our Professional Practice course into 2 parts. This first part will help you to define and/or refine your brand and to establish the systems to manage, market, and support your practice.
The course consists of three Zoom evening sessions held 7.00pm-9.30pm on Monday 14, 21 & 28 July.
Please enrol before 9 June for the earlybird fee of $325 and to provide adequate time for pre-course work which will require some research on which to base your celebrant branding and systems.
Part 2: Polish Your Practice will be available later in the year for anyone who has completed all the other required papers and wants to graduate in 2025.
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