A Celebrant’s Notebook: by Anna Heriot – Review

Anna Heriot
Anna Heriot

“Here is an author who deeply understands ritual and symbolism.

If you understand what celebrancy is about, the first of September 2003 is a day that makes you put your face in your hands and weep. This was the day when a group of uneducated, insensitive, unintelligent, and rather vicious public servants, endowed with new and extraordinary government-sanctioned powers, set out, knowingly or unknowingly, to destroy the civil celebrant program.

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A proposed Diploma Course for Celebrants (Skills Council)

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I have submitted this to the Skills Council as being my take on why we should have an in-depth diploma course in celebrancy. The tragedy is that before the downgrading of 2003 and the deluging of the celebrant marketplace, we were getting somewhere. We were going somewhere good.

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Education and Training for Celebrants. The “recognition” of the ignorant.

I wrote down these thoughts as celebrants and public servants are arguing about a proposed “recognised” course for celebrants.
Preview of the government study unit:
Re: 1A CHCCEL503X Research, create, evaluate, and organize ceremonies.

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