Celebrant Foundation and Institute
The Celebrant Foundation & Institute (CFI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to the education, training and certification of professional secular officiants known as Life-Cycle Celebrants. CFI was founded in 2001 and has headquarters in Montclair, New Jersey.
Origin and history
The designated Celebrant profession began during the early 1970s in Australia and New Zealand. The International Federation of Celebrancy organization estimates more than one million wedding ceremonies have been performed by Celebrants worldwide. See Celebrant (Australia).
Celebrancy is a growing occupation in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In 2007, the Celebrant profession was named by CNN and Money Magazine as the #3 best job for those over 50 and ready for a change.
Individuals and societies in North America and Europe have increasingly utilized the services of Celebrants, due to the needs of many diverse cultures, beliefs and backgrounds.
Life-cycle Celebrants
Life-cycle Celebrants are professional ceremony officiants who advocate the power and effectiveness of ceremony and ritual to serve basic needs of society and the individual. They collaborate with their clients to create and perform personalized ceremonies that reflect the clients’ beliefs, philosophy of life and personalities; not the Celebrant's.
Professional practice
Life-cycle Celebrants officiate for individuals, couples, families and organizations at virtually every life event, with a focus on custom-made ceremonies to reflect the needs, beliefs and values of people from all walks of life. Specialized ceremonies include occasions such as: weddings, vow renewals, commitments, baby blessings and naming, coming-of-age, rites-of-passage, survivor, seasonal and earth-based rituals, retirements, family reunions, celebrations-of-life, memorials, and funerals.
Training
Celebrant students follow an interdisciplinary program focusing on the history and art of celebration, symbolism, rite of passage and world traditions; and the theory and practice of ceremony, rituals and public speaking via distance learning (online) classes taught by the Celebrant Institute & Foundation faculty. Following graduation, those trained through the Celebrant Foundation & Institute become certified and earn the title of Life-Cycle Celebrant.
The Celebrant Institute & Foundation offers educational programs taught via state-of-the-art, live, real-time, online distance learning, teacher-to-student, Web-based classes. Individuals looking for a change in career either as an independent, full-time, or part-time job have taken courses at the Celebrant Foundation in the pursuit of starting a career as a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant. The Celebrant Foundation & Institute offers graduates new career training for a fulfilling home business career with three Certified Celebrant rite of passage tracks of study: Weddings and other Ceremonies for Couples, Funerals and other Ceremonies for Healing, Ceremonies for Families and Children. The Foundations unique certified wedding officiant programs, classes, and training are structured to assist in achieving career goals as a highly respected and dignified Certified Life-Cycle Wedding officiant.
New Career
The Celebrant Institute in Montclair New Jersey offers Celebrant training with the chance for graduates to start a new vocation along with the opportunity for students to earn a full-time or part-time income. With a new vocation as a Certified Life-Cycle wedding minister, graduates can earn a full-time income or part-time income that suites their life-style. The curriculum is taught by professional, seasoned teachers that instruct students on how to market their skills via social media and other [...]-edge marketing techniques that will enhance their Celebrant practice as a successful entrepreneur.
The Celebrant Foundation offers individuals a chance at becoming a Certified wedding officiant. This is accomplished by taking real-time, on-line course from home. Certified wedding ministers can operate their own home based business. The Celebrant Foundation also offers Wedding Minister training to students in their pursuit of becoming a Wedding officiant.
In the pursuit of changing jobs or starting a new direction in life, the Celebrant Foundation is popular for training individuals for the opportunity at starting their own home business careers. The Celebrant Foundation & Institute teaches their on-line curriculum and course of studies to successfully help individuals begin a second career or a new vocation. The foundation offers literature, downloaded brochures, review newsletters, press articles and sample ceremonies from professional Certified Life-Cycle Celebrants who have conducted personalized milestone ceremonies for people from all walks of life.
Students who enroll in the Celebrant Institute & Foundation courses and graduate can start a new vocation as a Certified Celebrant and Wedding officiant. While studying to become a wedding minister each State/province and country has their own individual laws about who can legally officiated at marriages. Students learn the laws of their region that allows them to officiate legally at marriages. Certified Wedding Celebrants are people in their communities who are trained by the Celebrant Foundation & Institute to officiate at, compose and perform the personalized wedding, commitment and coupling ceremonies for couples.
See also
- Celebrant
- Marriage officiant