Lynnette Olsen Civil Celebrant

About Lynnette

Qualifications: Advanced Diploma of Funeral Celebrancy
Advanced Diploma of General Celebrancy
Diploma of Teaching (Primary)

Lynnette is a graduate of the International College of Celebrancy and a member of The Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants.

Lynnette has over thirty years of experience in the field of education to support her skills as a Civil Celebrant. During that time she has worked with all age groups of children. Necessarily, she has also liaised with parents from all walks of life and with differing needs and wants. As a professional, Lynnette has conducted programs for both students and teaching staff and brings a wealth of experience to the very challenging role of Civil Celebrant.

As a member of The Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants, Lynnette not only believes in the Federation’s Philosophy and Code of Ethics, but she adheres to them in her unique celebrant role.

Philosophy:

  • The pursuit of excellence in all that I do.
  • Professionalism – in every detail.
  • Officiating at the best and most beautiful ceremonies possible.
  • Top of the range service to my clients and to the public.
  • A passionate awareness that the ceremony is not mine, but the clients: and their wishes, their choices, and their contributions are central.
  • A happiness that I have the rare and unique opportunity to be paid to read poetry in public, and that the poetry, prose, music and symbols I use in my ceremonies, and the artists we encourage, are a significant element in the artistic and cultural development of this country and in humanity in general.
  • I am also about unity – unity and co-operation among celebrants.
  • Most of all I preoccupy myself with standards – standards of preparation, standards of service, ethics and conventions of behaviour that result in ceremonies which please, thrill, console, and strengthen my clients and my fellow human beings.
  • I am open to new ideas, new possibilities and responding to the needs with all personal ceremonies, public ceremonies, and being ritually part of paradigm shifts in the social fabric.