The International College of Celebrancy is the world's original Distance Education Course for the Training of Celebrants (Est.1995). We have been the leading Organisation in the Training and Organsiation of celebrants with a Diploma Courses developed by an eminent team of educationists led by Professor Michael Parer, the acknowledged academic developer of Distance Education for University Courses in Australia.

Over eighteen progressive celebrants have contributed to the College's Training Courses.

The course is open to all aspiring or practising Civil and Secular Celebrants, interfaith Officiants, and clergy who wish to study the non-theological nature of ceremony.

The course is also enriching for persons who wish to bring ceremony and ritual into their own lives, within their own family, and/or within their own profession.

The training involves the Nature and Practice of creating, orchestrating and celebrating client approved and chosen Rites of Passage and Ceremonies. This includes Wedding or Marriage, Funeral, Naming and other Ceremonies, for secular, non-church, non-denominational, inter-denominational, inter-faith people. Trained professional celebrants are particularly sensitive and skilled to assist clients of mixed cultures and religions. Now in its eleventh year, this highly successful, effective and enriching course is completely written by celebrants for celebrants.

We pride ourselves that it is a course of quality, substance, and integrity. Our dedication is to Best Practice and the Pursuit of Excellence in every ceremony.

Our Board Chairman, Professor Michael Parer, is an acknowledged world authority in Distance Education. Our foundation consultant, Terese Archibald, is skilled and experienced in competency based training. The Dean of Studies, Dr Chris Watson, has studied and lectured in Universities in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Dally Messenger III, the Principal, is an experienced teacher and university lecturer with three tertiary qualifications in education. Appointeed by founder Attorney-General Lionel Murphy as the first Secretary of the Associaton of Civil Marriage Celebrants of Australia, he has been an active and forward thinking celebrant for over thirty years. Dr Watson and Mr Messenger also have their required Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.

Dr Wendy Attwater, our consultant and specialist in Registered Training Organisations, has just completed her doctoral thesis, and the late Mr Con Lowell of happy memory, who contributed much to this course, was an experienced Trainer in a number of industrial courses.

Board of Studies

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