Testimonials
Ongoing Professional Development
Thank you Lisa, for interesting, exciting and an excellent training session.
I felt that you respected our combined knowledge in the room as well as extended our knowledge!
Great Job
Dr Robyn Mills, VIC
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I just want to say thank you for an absolute stunning OPD at Joondalup today.
Kate Thomas was excellent.
In all my years of running businesses I have never enjoyed any OPD so much. The material was good and Kate was clear succinct and able to hold the class together. She was sometimes challenged on this but she commanded our attention in a super cool manner.
A credit to herself and to Australian Celebrants Training. Here’s hoping she is the person who does any funeral training in WA for your organisation.
The venue was very good and the food was wonderful
Kind regards
Bethne Crisafulli, WA, 2011
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Beth,
I feel it appropriate that I write to acknowledge the effort of Ray Roth with the OPD training he presented on Sunday 10 May 11.
Ray is a positive person with a wealth of celebrancy experience. During the day, Ray used his experience to amplify teaching points and provide better explanations to understanding some of the more pertinent points raised during the compulsory and Bespoke a Marriage Ceremony topics.
Ray regularly provided his own slant or alternate ways of doing things better, such as structuring a ceremony, dealing with issues raised by a potential couple or looking after the management processes of being a celebrant. Some of the attendees with many more years experience then myself also said they picked up new ideas. A true testament of Ray's open and friendly manner and an acceptance that we can always learn from our peers.
Ray's manner and teaching style made the day pleasurable and the subject content easily to learn, especially in my case. All my previous celebrancy training has been completed by distance learning and as such some of my practices were not entirely correct. Through Ray's help I now feel more comfortable with my role as a celebrant.
I intend to do future OPD training through classroom sessions and would be pleased to have Ray as the facilitator.
Regards
Gary Holder , QLD, 2011
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Dear Beth,
Having now completed two OPD’s with you, and now looking at completing my third, I think it is time for me to thank you, for making your classes so interesting, and enjoyable, which is what makes me want to come back each year, the five hours goes very quickly. I should also like to congratulate you, on your professional manner and the easy style that you have, in delivering your lectures, making it easy for all to understand. I always come away from your classes with so much useable information for my own celebrancy business. Thank you again Beth Yours Sincerely Caroline Jackson , President, Alliance of Celebrans Queensland (ACQ)
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“The Association of Civil Marriage Celebrants of S.A. (Inc) have used Australian Celebrations Training to conduct the OPD for our Members for the last 3 years. We have chosen this company because all of the course sessions we have chosen have covered what the promotional material outlined. The many choices available ensured the best possible choices for our members so relevant to their roles as Marriage Celebrants. All our courses have been presented by Elisabeth O’Brien, who was organised, knowledgeable, helpful and an effective communicator. We could look nowhere else to have such expertise in all areas, as delivered by Australian Celebrations Training.” Pamela Schultz, Secretary/Treasurer ACMCSA (INC) January 2012
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"Very good, personable, valued others views and really listened, supportive and spoke without a lot of jargon. Lisa Greenfield has been my best OPD trainer to date" Heather Halvorsen, March 2011
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"I have just completed my external OPD program for 2011 which included the Compulsory Subject, Marriage and Blended Families, and Interfaith Marriages.
I would like to congratulate you on the comprehensive nature of the notes for these three sections, the clarity of the material, and the 'easy to understand' format, and i thank you for the excitement and desire to learn that was engendered when reading the material, further researching the subjects, and completing my answers. It has been a very satisfying and happy experience.
My initial celebrancy training was done with another college in Australia. I found the syllabus confusing and unclear, the information sometimes contradictory and often difficult to understand. At the end of it i was thankful to be finished with it. Contrary to that experience I am looking forward to completing more OPD programs with you over the years." Pat Leiss, QLD, 2011
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Dear Beth,
I very much enjoyed the presentation that Mark Reid put together at Saint Michael's. I especially appreciated the Biblical orientation of the material and principles presented. Thank-you for providing this seminar with a specific focus on religous celebrants.
Regards, Timothy Winter, September 2011
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