Beware: They Want to deprive YOU of Dignity!

What I hear is…this American society, a sub-system of Western industrialized society, and a culture in crisis, is becoming more and more groundless and unstable, and is on the slippery slope of accepting more cheap, perishable plastic imitations — personalities, products, programs, promotions, propaganda — while continuing to be deprived of more dependable durable metal…

Buyer Beware: Certified Funeral Celebrant Scam – Part Three

This is Part Three, the final installment of this three-part series, which provides the evidence for the fallacies and the many certification scams on the example of the wholesale certification of funeral service celebrants by such so-called institutes like the In-Sight Institute, headed by Glenda Stansbury and Doug Manning. We examine their claims of “personalization”…

Buyer Beware: Certified Funeral Celebrant Scam – Part Two

Excessive capitalism does not work. Well, of course, it doesn’t and didn’t. The “empire” did quite well, of course, but with thousands of civil celebrants out there a price war developed, skills and standards went by the wayside, some of the best civil celebrants in the country gave up in disgust, others who had spent…

Buyer Beware: Certified Funeral Celebrant Scam – Part One

Part One of this three-part series provides readers with some history of the funeral services profession from its ascent in the late 19th century, to its decline in the 1960’s, to the rise in alternative disposal like cremation, to the predominance of funeral factory businesses and corporate consolidation of independent, family-owned funeral homes. It is…

What Does Your Psychospiritual Chaplain Do?

  (🅰🅳🆅🅰🅽🅲🅴 🅰🆁🆃🅸🅲🅻🅴) 𝓐 𝓠𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓐 𝓕𝓾𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓓𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓦𝓱𝓸 𝓕𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓜𝔂 𝓢𝓸𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵 𝓜𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓪 𝓟𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓼 Here’s the best “short answer” I can provide: My practice of psychospiritual care (PSC1) attempts to provide psychologically informed care in a vernacular dialogue with the principal beneficiaries of lifecare-deathcare-aftercare (LDA), that addresses immediate subjective concerns, interpersonal dynamics,  social resources and support,…

Chaplain’s Choice: Riverview Funeral Home

Preplanning and planning a funeral is one of the most challenging things most people will face in their lifetimes. The most considerate thing most of us can do for our loved ones is to talk about our final arrangements and to preplan or prepay with a local, reputable, and established independent, privately owned funeral home…

Why you can’t believe social media funeral service marketing.

What I hear is… This American society, a sub-system of Western industrialized society, and a culture in crisis, is becoming more and more groundless and unstable, and is on the slippery slope of accepting more cheap, perishable plastic imitations — personalities, products, programs, promotions, propaganda — while continuing to be deprived of more dependable durable…

Optimizing the Arrangements Conference

After the death notification and the first call, the arrangements conference (“AC”) is usually the next step in the deathcare cascade. The AC is, in many cases, the first-ever encounter with a funeral director that a survivor has ever had, and the situation is not the most conducive to making a new friend or inspiring…

National Deathcare Associations, Members, Incestuously Cozy with Celebrant Training Vendors

This article is part of a Discussion Module in Essentials of Celebrancy. It is intended to stimulate critical thinking and peer education and sharing in the context of Celebrancy Training. The text below presents a number of opinions and conclusions drawn from the instructor’s personal fact-finding research on the situation of civil (humanist, non-religious) life-cycle…

Non-existent copyright; Big Bully Backfire by Celebrant Foundation & Institute, Inc.

It is no coincidence that big equates with bully in the United States or anywhere else. It seems that whether one is discussing phone services, social media, professional organizations, or celebrancy training, big attempts to bully. Well, backfire also begins with “b,” and one big organization who has attempted to bully me and Compassionate Care…

Celebrancy Training: Here’s What You’ll Learn

Compassionate Care Associates Institute Celebrant Training is a world apart from the commercial celebrant training you are being accosted with at astronomical prices for a couple of hours of presentations. A lot of the problem lies with the so-called professional and special-interest organizations who promote their friends who will promote them One hand washes the…

Here’s Why You Should Become a Celebrant!

Just as a modern bridge spanning a chasm can be constructed in modules, CCAI has a view of celebrancy training as built upon a modular concept. That way of thinking about training for something as important and deep, helps you to get your arms around the idea that you are a diamond in the rough,…