CELEBRANT TRAINING

A requirement of the Attorney-General's Department is that Marriage Celebrants complete 5 hours of ongoing professional development each year.
Topics include: 2011 Compulsory Text (1 hour), Celebrant Skills/Resources/Equipment Checklist (2 hours) and Developing and Reviewing Your Resource Folder (2 hours).

Content

A requirement of the Attorney-General's Department is that Marriage Celebrants complete 5 hours of ongoing professional development each year.
2011 COMPULSORY ACTIVITY This course is the 2011 Compulsory Activity provided by the Attorney Generals’ Department, Marriage Celebrants’ Section. Celebrants must complete this topic to successfully complete 2011 OPD requirements. The topics covered are :
• Keeping up with your ongoing obligation to update the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants on your contact details
• Section 45 of Marriage Act 1961 (Exchange of vows)
• Section 46 of Marriage Act 1961 (Celebrant Authority/Monitum).

CELEBRANT SKILLS/RESOURCES/EQUIPMENT CHECKLIST This course will provide:
• a clearer understanding of what skills, resources and equipment a new celebrant will need to set up a celebrant office
• experienced Celebrants the opportunity to review their processes and share ideas with peers to improve personal systems and skills by developing a checklist.

DEVELOPING AND REVIEWING YOUR RESOURCE FOLDER This course will enable participants:
• to develop/create/review their ceremony information resource booklet in order to create personalised ceremonies
• to have a framework for creating a resource kit for use with clients.

Essential Celebrant Record Keeping and Administration This course will explore the minimum requirements a celebrant needs to maintain a Celebrant’s office including:
• securely maintaining and managing client documentation relating to the ceremony and communications with the client
• utilising effective administrative skills to collect and store documentation
• applying open, honest and effective invoicing procedures.

For Details contact Gordon Institute of TAFE

Contact Vlady at vlady_celebrant@yahoo.com.au, ring her on (07) 3283 8567 - Mobile: 0415 324 982 or write to her Vlady M Peters, Civil Marriage Celebrant, PO Box 394, Redcliffe. Qld. 4020. Australia.