My Celebrant Finishing School
15 May 2026
There’s a whole stack of composers who left behind unfinished symphonies. The best known one is probably Schubert, but Beethoven, Wagner, Sibelius and many other famous musicians didn’t complete their works before they shuffled off this mortal coil. As a celebrant, has it ever seemed that a ceremony of yours felt unfinished? You’d listened attentively […]
Read more →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 […]
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