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The New Student track for a Certification in Life-Cycle Celebrancy is a 2-course package, and includes Fundamentals of Celebrancy Training (a seven-module course), followed by Celebrancy Across the Life Cycle Training (an eight-module course).
As a new student, you will be required to select your first certification in order to enroll. Don’t worry – should you decide to change your certification path while in Fundamentals, it can be changed.
Fundamentals
What you will learn
Students will emerge from Fundamentals of Celebrancy having internalized the essential building blocks of ceremony to create ceremonies of all types and will be well prepared to take on their first Certification, being more conscious and mindful of the possibilities for ceremony all around.
In this course, students will study
- The foundations of creating effective ceremony
- Rites of Passage theory
- Ceremony Structure (Ordering elements in a ceremony to promote transformation)
- Symbolism – using personal, family, cultural and universal objects to enrich ceremony meaning
- Storytelling, the hallmark of the personalized Celebrant ceremony
- Introduction to Client Relations
In addition, students will analyze a complete Celebrant ceremony case study and begin to exercise their ceremony creation muscles in short assignments, applying each module’s key concepts.
Celebrancy Across the Life Cycle Training
This eight-module certificate course will examine the role of the Life-Cycle Celebrant in co-creating and facilitating personalized ceremonies and rituals to mark and celebrate life milestones and transitions across the human life cycle and to foster connection in community. This course focuses on ceremonies other than Weddings and Funerals.
This course combines essential elements from both Healing and Transitions Celebrancy and Ceremonies Across the Life Cycle and contains revised content and many targeted case studies to give Life-Cycle Celebrants the tools to expand their practice with ceremonies for tender and joyous life transitions and milestones such as:
- Baby Naming
- Adoption
- Renaming
- Home/Home Leaving
- Adult transitions – parenthood, gender, work & health
- Relationship Transitions – divorce, renewal & recommitment
- Mid and Late Life Transitions - Croning/Saging/Eldering
The students will apply their learnings as they write a ceremony from start to finish for a client based on one of the two detailed client profiles provided, and as they envision a ceremony and devise a ritual for a group of people in their community to expand their reach, build their practice and serve in their own community.
Important Course Information
- Cost: $1800
- Classes meet live-online, weekly for 90 minutes
- Classes are held at 5:00 pm Pacific; 6:00 pm Mountain; 7:00 pm Central; and 8:00 pm Eastern
- 2025 Fall Program Start Date: Week of August 14th