Eco-friendly funerals, also known as green or sustainable funerals, aim to reduce the carbon footprint of the final farewell. These types of funerals often involve natural burials in biodegradable coffins, woodland burial sites, and a minimal use of embalming chemicals. As more people become conscious of the environmental legacy they leave behind, sustainable funeral options are increasingly becoming mainstream.
For celebrants, eco-friendly funerals offer a chance to create a funeral service that honours both the deceased and their place in the natural world. These services often differ from traditional funerals because they do not take place in a chapel, but graveside. The service may be religious but is more likely to be non-religious with sprigs of rosemary being cast into the natural burial ground grave rather than “ashes” or “dust”. Committal and remembrance words are often also very different. Celebrants play a crucial role in designing a funeral service that reflects the values and beliefs of the deceased and their family. The celebrant may also be asked to provide the music graveside via a Bluetooth speaker and their phone.
With a sharp rise in demand for eco-friendly funerals, the need for well-trained, empathetic celebrants is growing. Many families choosing a green funeral are also opting for a personalised and non-traditional ceremony. This is where becoming a funeral celebrant can provide not only a rewarding career but also an opportunity to be part of a growing movement towards sustainability.
As a celebrant, you’ll have the skills to craft personalised, meaningful ceremonies that speak to the values of the individual and their loved ones, especially when it comes to sustainable and natural funeral choices. This growing demand means there has never been a better time to enrol in funeral celebrant training and learn how to support families through these unique, and increasingly popular, funeral services.
You do not need a qualification to be a funeral celebrant. Nor do you need to be a member of any celebrant organisation. All you need is good quality practical celebrant training, the right skills and the tenacity to do the job.
At
Celebrant Training School, we offer practical online courses and a celebrant community that will equip and support you with the skills needed to become a successful professional funeral celebrant. From learning how to craft the perfect eulogy to how to get your first bookings from Funeral Directors, our funeral celebrant training covers all the practical and business essentials.
Our beginner funeral celebrant course now includes: “
Become Burial Service Confident” - a specific unit of learning designed originally to support existing funeral celebrants with the increase in demand for natural burials. It is now available as part of “
Become a Funeral Celebrant from Scratch” for FREE.
There are specific tutorials and resources on how eco-friendly woodland or natural burial services differ from crematorium funeral services. The course takes you “on location” to a natural burial ground. You get downloadable resources and advice on how family meetings will be different.
For those people researching the basics of becoming a celebrant, we offer a
FREE funeral celebrant discovery module, providing an excellent introduction to the world of celebrancy and the skills needed.
Following the discovery module, our
full funeral celebrant course takes a deep dive into the practical skills you’ll need to run your own celebrant business and meet the growing demand for eco-friendly funerals.
