Green Fuse – award winning funeral directors and celebrants
- Accredited and experienced trainers active in all aspects of funeral directing and celebrants.
- All trainers are funeral directors and celebrants in their daily work.
- The training is held in a funeral home, to immerse you in the subject of funerals.
- Exceptional manuals and course materials for each course.
- Varied and enjoyable learning methods including lots of practical work and discussion.
- Small groups – maximum 8.
- Green Fuse have been pioneers in changing the quality of funerals since 1999 and voted Good Funeral Guide FD of the Year.
Riverstone Hall – our teaching centre and funeral home
Changing the face of funerals
Green Fuse has been changing the face of funerals by training over 250 funeral celebrants and 200 funeral directors / arrangers since 2008 and through its award winning funeral directing services since 1999 and through our book “We Need To Talk About The Funeral”.
Many people now are looking for a more personal funeral experience, and still value and appreciate a sense of sacred ritual to mark the end of a life and the transition of spirit – a funeral with heart and soul based in the person’s culture and lifestyle. It is important that each funeral is both a celebration of a life and the mourning of a loss, and contains a sense of the sacred and ritual.
Come and train with us if, with the right support and teaching, you feel you could kindly accompany a grieving family, listen carefully to what they want, and help them to put together the right funeral for the person who has died with warmth and calm reassurance. Our aim is to help you to be the best you can be in your own way as a funeral director or celebrant. And we will support you all the way, beyond the end of the course.
Our dedication to you is unsurpassed as we want you to go the extra mile for each family. To facilitate learning we have small groups of up to 8; you are supported with two tutors in every session. We create a safe space in which you can explore the issues of death and dying and caring for the bereaved.
You learn through active workshops, discussion and written work. We value your experiences and the culture in which you will be working.
Our main trainers, Jane Morrell, Simon Smith, Basira Ward and Steve Nimmo are active Funeral Directors running their own businesses and celebrants, with much experience in modern and traditional funerals as well as related qualifications in Funeral Services, Celebrancy, Rites of Passage, Comparative Religion and education. We always bring our new experiences to each course, and a unique set of skills from other careers including counselling and psychotherapy, leadership, drama, floristry and performance.
If you feel excited having read this, but perhaps also a little daunted, then you are the person we are looking for to join our values-led Green Fuse community, committed to improving the standard and changing the face of funerals in the UK.
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