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NEWS Association CONTINUED
Meeting the Needs of Your Families: NFDA to Host
Certified Celebrant Training Workshops
BROOKFIELD,WI— As families’ wishes continue to
evolve, it is more important than ever for funeral direc-
tors to offer a variety of services to exceed their expecta-
tions. To help members meet the needs of families that
are not affiliated with a particular religion or church, the
National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) will
partner with InSight Institute to host two Certified Cel-
ebrant Training seminars in 2017.
A certified celebrant works with the funeral director to
provide families with a funeral, memorial service or trib-
ute that is personalized and tailored to reflect the person-
ality and lifestyle of the deceased.
Americans today are, generally speaking, less religious
than they were in the past. According to Pew Research
Center, in 2010, 16.4 percent of people said that they
were unaffiliated with a particular faith tradition; that is
expected to grow to 25.6 percent in 2050.
According to the 2017 NFDA Consumer Awareness &
Preferences Report, 39.5 percent of people reported that
religion was a “very important” component of a funeral,
down from 49.5 percent five years ago.
With fewer families incorporating religious rites into
funeral and memorial services, many funeral directors see
certified celebrants as a way to meet the needs of non-reli-
gious families and those who may see themselves as spiri-
tual but are not affiliated with a church or religion.
The Certified Celebrant Training seminars hosted by
NFDA will be conducted by InSight Institute’s Glenda
Stansbury, MA, CFSP, and Doug Manning. In a cre-
ative and collaborative environment, attendees will de-
velop such skills as: Articulating the Value of the Funeral;
Facilitating Family Meetings; Using Music and Readings
Resources; Art of Ceremonial Writing; Presentation Skills;
How to Serve as a Master of Ceremonies; Developing the
Celebrant Concept in the Community; and much more.
The seminars will be held: July 13-15 at NFDA head-
quarters in Brookfield, and October 27-29 in Boston,
MA, as a 2017 NFDA International Convention & Expo
pre-convention seminar.
For more information or to register for an NFDA-host-
ed Certified Celebrant Training seminar, visit www.nfda.
org/celebrant or call 800-228-6332.
NFDA is the world’s leading and largest funeral service as-
sociation, serving 19,700 individual members who represent
more than 10,000 funeral homes in the United States and
49 countries around the world. NFDA is the trusted lead-
er, beacon for ethics and the strongest advocate for the pro-
fession. NFDA is the association of choice because it offers
funeral professionals comprehensive educational resources,
tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become
pillars in their communities and the expertise to foster fu-
ture generations of funeral professionals. NFDA is head-
quartered in Brookfield, and has an office in Washington,
DC. For more information, visit .