A wide variety of celebrant chat in this episode! Celebrant Institute turns one (happy birthday!). We recap our first year and what we have accomplished. We discuss Glenn’s feedback from our previous episode plus general discussion on industry updates.
0.40 Sarah’s nicknames
4.00 Global Climate strike
8.50 1st year anniversary for Celebrant Institute!
14.11 Sarah is now training through CI
16.37 Community over competition and raising the industry standard
24.57 LGBTQI Awareness
27.17 Are we still mad at Glenn for his feedback?
29.11 Signing the certificates
41.06 Can we have the rings please?
45.05 High heels for presence
48.56 Continue to develop
51.15 CoCA update
62.38 Say yes to all the things and be a good human
I am a relatively new celebrant and most of my weddings (actually, all) have been for family and friends. So here’s the thing… all of my feedback has been really really positive – even when it probably shouldn’t have been. I loved hearing Glenn’s views. At times they made me feel a little uncomfortable but I think that’s a good thing! I went back to my scripts for the next few weddings & rewrote quite a lot. I do believe that they are much better now & more sincere. Thank you Glenn.
Boy I’d love a class on script writing!!
It’s definitely worthwhile seeing if you can get hold of a video of yourself doing a wedding so you can watch it. And even ask another celebrant to watch it with you and give you some constructive feedback. You’ll always get amazing feedback from your family and friends, and often from all your other couples too, mainly because they don’t know any better. So even though it’s difficult to be so vulnerable, it’s well worth asking a trusted colleague to help you out 🙂 I’m glad you’ve felt challenged from listening to Glenn, that was the purpose! And if it makes you a better celebrant, that’s ace 🙂
Consider taking a creative writing class, that might help you with your scripts!
Hi team! You encouraged comments/thoughts/experiences so here’s my 2cents..
Regarding Signing during or after the ceremony, in my limited experience (18 ceremonies) I have found the ‘signing after the ceremony’ works perfectly when I am a guest at the reception because I am friends of the couple. I can then pick a moment when the couple and witnesses are ready and slot it in. (Or if I am MC.. i will only MC weddings if I was already going as a guest).
As far as the high heels discussion goes – that was a really old school suggestion by Glenn… Unless he also suggests a small man wear high heels to engineer presence too?
There are PLENTY of other, less sexist and less uncomfortable ways to bring presence, own your space, fill the room.
Mindfulness techniques
Rehearsing
Preparation
Research
Observing other ceremonies
Thanks Glenn for sparking so much discussion!
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