Celebrants – Want To Brighten Your Ceremonies?
7 May 2026
Are you completely happy with the way you present your ceremonies? No? You’re not alone in this. Unless you’ve been fortunate enough to have had top-class guidance, preferably one on one, it’s not surprising that you may feel there’s something not quite right in the way you’re communicating with your audiences. After all, the presentation […]
Read more →Far From The Madding Crowd
24 February 2026
The other week, I was one of the speakers at a celebrant conference. It was by Zoom, so I didn’t have to travel far – just upstairs, in fact! I like Zoom, partly because I can stay at home here in the seclusion of Cumbria, connect easily with a lot of people, and also because […]
Read more →A New-World Celebrant
15 November 2025
Since working with you, my perspective and scope in relation to celebrancy has totally transformed. You’ve helped me to add a quality to my delivery that I previously had no idea about. I don’t think I’ll even call it delivery anymore.
Read more →The Key To Being An Excellent Communicator
10 October 2025
I’m Paul, the voice and communication coach for Heart-led Celebrant Training, and I also work with celebrants who’ve trained elsewhere but haven’t had the vocal and presentation training they really needed. In fact, I work with all sorts of people who want to improve the sound of their voice, how to communicate with it, and […]
Read more →Celebrant Success
2 October 2024
Not many celebrants or ministers are lucky enough to have professional voice-and-communication coaching as part of their training. I’d have thought that would be a basic part of what they’re taught, but apparently not. Having a pleasant-sounding voice will give you an edge over most of the celebrants (and ministers) working these days. But an […]
Read more →My Evolution as a Voice Coach
10 April 2024
Looking back at when I started working with celebrants and trainee celebrants, it seems like aeons ago; and, in comparison to now, I was like a one-cell amoeba floating around in a primordial celebrant soup. Recently I put up a blog about how it’s possible to have your eyes opened to new methods and thoughts […]
Read more →For The Love Of Mic
12 March 2024
I’ve been using microphones professionally in different contexts since my mid-twenties, and it’s safe to say that I love them. That love goes hand in hand with my passion of anything to do with voice – speaking and singing. I’ll write more about voice from time to time, but this one’s about the use of […]
Read more →An Identity Crisis? Not Really
4 February 2024
Am I a voice and communication teacher? A celebrant-presentation tutor? Maybe a vocal coach? (I’d love to work with someone called Meg – then I could say I’m a Meghan Trainer!) * A mixture of those titles would do, but there’s another ingredient in the celebrant mix: your personality! Voice, communication and personality are inextricably […]
Read more →Confessions of a Santa Claus – Part 2
18 December 2023
A couple of weeks ago, I shared again part 1 of last year’s Christmas blog – Confessions of a Santa Claus. I didn’t have the space to include everything in it that I’d like to have written. Here’s a very quick catchup on the background of it! I was Santa for 12 years at Center […]
Read more →Your Sunday-Best Voice
9 December 2023
Quite a few years ago our younger daughter had a sleepover organised with a friend in town. I was the designated driver. (Not that sort! She was only 10!) We live in a country area, and car cleaning has never been a priority – but that day, ours looked like something out of the Beverly […]
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