Professional Development Sessions
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In the Celebrant Circle, we consider ‘Professional Development’ to be a vital part of every successful celebrant’s toolkit. Inner Circle members have access to FREE, regular monthly P.D. opportunities.
All of our sessions are informative, targeted, enlightening, and (very importantly) a lot of fun.
We run a huge variety of options covering everything from business marketing to ceremony design and delivery – and a whole lot in between! With sessions delivered by guest speakers or the in-house training team. Our P.D. is continually evolving, with our members’ requirements and requests at the forefront of all that we do.
When it comes to training or membership organisations, we never forget you have a choice.
So let us help you to get your Celebrant business fit and fired up, ready for 2024…and beyond!
The Celebrant Circle Ltd is a fully accredited member of the CPD Certification Service
Membership No. 019246
Funeral Celebrant Marketing - Shelley Jackson-Woodall
Tuesday 23rd June · 7:00 – 8:30pm
Join Shelley as she guides you through some hints and tips for marketing yourself as a funeral celebrant.
We will briefly look at marketing yourself directly to FD's and FA's.
We will then spend some time exploring more diverse marketing approaches, including ways to raise your profile on social media and locally within your community.
You will leave with ideas for marketing and a content calendar for a month's worth of social media posts.
Helping Couples Find The Words
Wednesday, 8 July · 7:00 – 8:00pm
Aim: To equip celebrants with practical, coaching-informed techniques to help couples gain clarity and clearly articulate their preferences, with a particular focus on vow writing.
This session will equip celebrants with practical, coaching-informed techniques to help couples reach greater clarity. It will move through three connected areas: coaching tools to help couples identify what matters most to them for their ceremony; listening and language techniques to explore a couple’s intentions more deeply; and translating all of that into vows that genuinely reflect who they are and what they want to say.
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Introduction to using values-based questioning to help couples identify what matters most to them about their ceremony, giving the creative process a meaningful starting point
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Introduction to applying coaching techniques to take couples deeper than their initial responses to better understand their intentions.
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Learn how to integrate a coaching approach when supporting couples with writing their vows.
Questionnaires beyond Weddings and Funerals
with Shelley Jackson-Woodall
Tuesday, 14 July · 7:00 – 9:00pm
Join Shelley as she explores questionnaires beyond Weddings and Funerals.
Hints and tips for creating different questionnaires, including baby naming, vow renewal, memorials, ash interments, adoption and more.
If you have a specific questionnaire you're interested in exploring, let us know.'
EDI PD Session with Ali Jowett
Monday, 19th October · 7:00 – 8:30pm
Learning outcomes:
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To understand what Equality, Diversity & Inclusion mean
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To identify where Equality & Inequality exist in Society
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To develop knowledge of diversity in all its forms
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To identify multiple identities
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To consider inclusive practice and language when working as a celebrant – including conscious and unconscious bias
To discuss/review Equality legislation including 7 types of discrimination.
Summary of Themes and Training Content:
Definitions of Equality, Diversity & Equity : our thoughts and ways in which we can promote fairness, avoid prejudice and stereotyping.
Activity on Equality & Inequality in society – where they are seen and the benefits/dangers they present
Definitions of types of diversity and identification of multiple identities vs stereotyping.
Working with people and inclusive language – ensuring EDI is respected when working with others and reviewing our language to ensure we meet the needs of our clients.
Discussion on types of discrimination linking to Equality legislation.
About the Trainer:
Alison Jowett is a freelance Education, Training and Quality Consultant (and newly qualified Celebrant!) She has been working in the education sector for over 25 years for both the public and private sector. She is a qualified Teacher, Trainer, Assessor and Verifier and also has a background in HR.
Ali has been writing and delivering training sessions on subjects such as Leadership & Management, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Mental Health & Advocacy for the last 5 years.
She lives in Tunbridge Wells with her Husband Chris, two cats Oscar & Winnie, and has one daughter and three step-daughters – with an ever growing brood of grandchildren (two more currently cooking!)
Her passions include baking (having previously owned a coffee shop where she made all the cakes herself) and reading, although she confesses she has recently become hooked on audio books – she particularly loves a good murder mystery. Her guilty pleasure is Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.
