Funeral Celebrant Training Course

Train to Become a Funeral Celebrant

Online (Home Study)

FOIC will provide the training to fully equip you as a Civil Funeral Celebrant.

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• Following successful completion of the home study training you will be able to:-

• * Confidently conduct a heartfelt and meaningful funeral service
• * Sensitively interview the bereaved family and obtain the relevant information about the deceased
• * Create a well written, accurate service from the information you gleaned at the family visit
• * Create a service for a cremation, burial, interment of ashes and memorial service
• * Provide religious and/or spiritual content
• * Provide readings and poems that will be relevant to the family’s wishes
• * Create a professional presentation of your script for the family
• * Understand the Funeral industry, including the crematorium staff and Funeral Directors & Arrangers 
• * Establish yourself as a self-employed Independent Funeral Celebrant
• * Know how to promote, market and advertise your business

FOIC will make you truly outstanding as a celebrant. You will be looking forward to conducting your very first funeral service immediately following training.

‘ADDED VALUE’ Learning:  skills well above and beyond expectations will be provided.  You will be trained to exceed the expectations of the bereaved family and Funeral Directors.

HOME STUDY Training: Celebrants training online need to attend a classroom location for half a day to demonstrate proof of proficiency in the skills and knowledge learned.

Funeral Celebrant Training that Really Works!

The curriculum covers articulating the Value of the Funeral, Listening Skills, Family Meetings, Service Planning, Music and Readings Resources, Creative Writing, Closing Ceremonies, Master of Ceremonies, Presentation Skills, and Developing the Celebrant Concept in the Community.

When we began planning our training programme we outlined what we thought were the most important elements for any person serving as a Celebrant to know.
We knew that we would be training a wide variety of people - funeral professionals, clergy, teachers, medical professionals, retirees, bereavement specialists, even a clown and puppeteer and the list goes on. But we wanted everyone to start at the same place when we discussed ‘grief and the funeral’ - and what a personalised service offers to families.

FOIC are such passionate believers that the funeral service itself in an important and sacred first step in a person’s grief journey that we want every one of our Celebrants to be well grounded in the value of the funeral - the elements that are important to grieving families and how to listen to and work with each family.
So, this is what we cover during our training. (A person can find courses in ceremonies and creative writing in a variety of training settings). We believe what is most important is adding the aspect of grief and how to deal with that most unique emotional response.

We focus on the logistics of putting a ceremony together - how to facilitate a family meeting, the art of ceremonial writing, the process of consultation and service planning, how to work with funeral directors, how to utilize and find resources, music, readings, and all the other elements that can be included in a service.

We focus on practical application. Each of the celebrants in training takes part in a funeral presentation created from an assigned scenario. Each celebrant creates a life story and from that story designs a complete funeral service and conducts it. 

We also provide each Celebrant with superb Funeral Resources - containing sample services, ceremonies and readings.

FOIC offer a place for you to network with each other on the FOIC FaceBook Group, brainstorm and share stories and mutual support beyond the days of training.  We also have regular regional meetings and mentorship days.

You can commence as a Civil Funeral Celebrant immediately following this training

“Hello David, I'm not sure how to say thank you without it sounding too ‘slushy’, but I just want you to know how much I enjoyed the course, the wealth of information you have given me, the vast experience you have shared and the delightful presenting style you have, made the last couple of days a joy. I am so enthused about starting my new venture. I have grown in confidence. I really did choose the best training organisation in FOIC.”  Patricia

"Thank you both so much for giving so generously of yourselves during the celebrancy training last week.  It was a remarkably rich experience, with an extraordinary group of people. I'm also deeply appreciative of the funeral and wedding resources that you have emailed. It feels good to have so much material available". Anna

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• The best Celebrants are the ones who can walk into a room of perfect strangers, sit amongst them and gain their trust by listening to their stories, their hurts, their grief, and then put together a service that honours that life and gives voice to the memories and the needs of that family.

  FOIC Celebrants frequently hear two things immediately following a funeral service:

  “You must have known 'Katie' very well.”  This means the celebrant captured the essence and told the story in such a way that people thought we were just talking about a dear friend.

  “We couldn’t have done it without you.”  This means the family knew the celebrant was walking with them on their most difficult days, offering our talents to be their voice, and they felt heard, understood and comforted by our presence.