Want to be an Even Better Celebrant?
3 June 2023
Because I’m passionate about helping people develop their voices and their communication and presentation skills, I love sharing my knowledge and experience with celebrants in training, and working celebrants. I have two aims: for each person I work with: to have a pleasant-sounding voice; and the ability to speak to an audience/congregation/gathering of people in […]
Read more →A Tribute to Celebrants
12 March 2023
Celebrants wear several hats. (If you wear 3, is it a hattrick?) They’re a one-(wo)man team. And they can make the difference between an average ceremony and a special one.
Read more →My Background and Celebrant Training
19 February 2023
What skills and experience do I bring the celebrant and voice training in general?
Read more →Celebrants: Don’t Fall at the Final Hurdle
16 February 2023
Why celebrants need high-quality voice and presentation training to enable their ceremonies to shine.
Read more →Nobody’s Perfect
5 January 2023
Is there a perfectionist in you, bursting to get out of the bottle? That certainly rings a bell with me! I try to keep the cork in place so that doesn’t happen, and as I’ve got older, I’ve become a bit more successful in the arm wrestle between me and the cork. But Mr Perfectionist […]
Read more →High Anxiety
16 December 2022
That’s the title of the movie that the wonderful Mel Brooks produced, directed and acted the lead in many years ago. It could also describe a lot of my performance life. While living in New Zealand, I had something of a career change. It wasn’t an overnight thing – although, on closer inspection, you could […]
Read more →It’s Just a Matter of Timing
5 December 2022
When I was younger, so much younger than today, my party piece was… no… not a Beatles song, but… If I Were A Rich Man (from Fiddler On The Roof). Well, being rich never happened – not yet, anyway. But I realise now that I could have been extremely well off. It’s just that I […]
Read more →The Axe Factor – all about accents
26 November 2022
. There’s been quite a bit in the news recently about regional accents, and how they can act as barriers, both socially, and in the workplace. Because of my line of work, they come into my mind quite a lot. I call their effect The Axe Factor (it’s catchier than The Accent Factor), and I […]
Read more →No, I’m Not a Belly Speaker
11 October 2022
Sometimes I forget I’m a ventriloquist. I shouldn’t, because it may be my only claim to being unique in my profession. I mean, how many voice coaches do you know who can do a one-hour session without moving their lips? Mind you, how many voice coaches do you know, full stop! The other day, I […]
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