The Humanist Celebrant Podcast
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Humanist Celebrants share their insights, expertise and personal stories about becoming a celebrant, the way they work and offer advice for people planning a wedding, funeral or naming. HUMANIST CEREMONIES™ is a network of humanist celebrants trained and accredited by Humanists UK. We offer humanist naming, wedding or partnership, and funeral and memorial ceremonies for non-religious people. Each ceremony is unique, appropriate, and personal. Our skilled celebrants come from all walks of life and have great integrity, sensitivity and experience.
Location:
United States
Description:
Humanist Celebrants share their insights, expertise and personal stories about becoming a celebrant, the way they work and offer advice for people planning a wedding, funeral or naming. HUMANIST CEREMONIES™ is a network of humanist celebrants trained and accredited by Humanists UK. We offer humanist naming, wedding or partnership, and funeral and memorial ceremonies for non-religious people. Each ceremony is unique, appropriate, and personal. Our skilled celebrants come from all walks of life and have great integrity, sensitivity and experience.
Language:
English
Episodes
Doug Duckworth - Humanist celebrant
4/19/2021
Doug is a humanist celebrant based in Newark and conducts ceremonies in the East Midlands and London. He's done lots of different jobs in his life including gravedigger, customs officer, accountant, actor and teacher of English and he's travelled widely in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He's never believed in a god, but he doesn’t have a problem with people that do. From 2016 to 2019 he combined celebrancy with being a “Faith Adviser” on the Lincoln University Chaplaincy team, working...
Duration:00:20:12
How to deliver a great Eulogy at a funeral
4/11/2021
In this episode I am joined by three UK based Humanist celebrants, Felicity Harvest, Douglas Duckworth and Roger Payne, and together we offer some advice to anyone who has been asked to speak at the funeral of a friend, relative or colleague.
How to tackle difficult lives and difficult deaths, how to deliver a great Eulogy, what to expect in the crematorium, how to manage strong emotion and the whys and why nots of using display technology...we all know the phrase...death by powerpoint.
Duration:00:15:38
How to prepare and write a Eulogy for a funeral
4/5/2021
In this episode I am joined by three UK based Humanist celebrants, Felicity Harvest, Douglas Duckworth and Roger Payne, and together we offer some advice to anyone who has been asked to speak at the funeral of a friend, relative or colleague.
How to tackle difficult lives and difficult deaths, how to approach preparing and writing a eulogy that is personal, memorable and thoughtful.
Duration:00:21:47
Pat Winslow - Humanist Celebrant
3/30/2021
Music Choice:
Londonderry Air Beatrice Hamilton with Nightingales
Reading:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on,...
Duration:00:17:22
Stephanie Forster - Humanist Celebrant
3/23/2021
With a background of marketing and communications that started in the hotel industry, Stephanie has over 15 years’ experience of creating, organising and hosting events, writing scripts and delivering speeches of all kinds. This has proved invaluable in designing and writing bespoke weddings, namings and funerals with all the couples and families she works with to create ceremonies just the way they want them.
Music Choice:
Phil Collins - You can't hurry love
Contact...
Duration:00:15:47
Ian Willox - Humanist Celebrant
3/16/2021
Music Choices:
Missa Luba by les troubadours du roi baudouin
Ian's Reading choice
Blessing for the Broken Hearted by Jan Richardson
Ian's Biography
Born in Zimbabwe and educated in Zambia and Scotland, I’ve been a radio producer for 30 years or so – working in most of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and quite a lot of South East Asia. I used to live with my wife on a Dutch Barge in London but now our children are grown we’ve been able to move to a small north Oxfordshire village with a...
Duration:00:17:28
Phil Walder - Humanist Celebrant
3/16/2021
Phil's Reading
The Dash by Linda Ellis
Phil's Music Choices
The Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd
Contact Phil:
phil.walder@gmail.com
www.philwalder.com/
07980 241225
Duration:00:16:00
Trevor Moore - Humanist Celebrant
3/16/2021
Trevor's Choice for a reading:
The Life That I Have by Leo Marks
Trevor's choice for music
Back in Black by ACDC
Trevor's Biography
Since being accredited as a Humanists UK celebrant in 2010 I have had the opportunity to work with all ages and personalities. My own experience in being part of a large extended family, spanning the generations, has equipped me well to do that.
My original career as a lawyer has left me with an eye for detail, alongside the ability to see the bigger...
Duration:00:17:51
Jane Blackman - Humanist Celebrant
3/16/2021
Jane Blackman – a multi award-winning Humanist Wedding, Funeral and Naming Celebrant living in West Sussex; creating and leading personalised, non-religious and Humanist ceremonies across Sussex, along the South Coast, regularly taking ceremonies in Hampshire, Surrey and Kent .
Jane's Reading: Instructions by Arnold Compton
Music Choices:
Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
Higher and Higher by Jackie...
Duration:00:16:24
Felicity Harvest - Humanist Celebrant
3/15/2021
Felicity's Reading Choice
As I grow old I Shall March not Shuffle - Brian Bilston
Music Choice
Sailing By by Ronald Binge
Felicity's Biography:
I started my working life as a theatre designer. Then I went on to run several different organisations including a cinema and an environmental project. I worked in arts funding and development, finishing that part of my career as Regional Executive Director for the Arts Council here in the South East. Training as a humanist celebrant has meant...
Duration:00:15:22