Lynnette Olsen
I am a highly experienced celebrant, having officiated at hundreds of ceremonies, each one uniquely different according to the wishes of my individual clients. I offer each of my clients a wide array of resources to help them personalise the ceremony according to their wishes. However, I am also delighted to receive ideas and thoughts from clients themselves, as I continue to learn and to recognise individual requirements.
I am a graduate of the International College of Celebrancy and a member of The Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants.
I have over thirty years of experience in the field of education to support my skills as a Civil Celebrant. During that time I have worked with all age groups of children. Necessarily, I have also liaised with parents from all walks of life and with differing needs and wants. As a professional, I have conducted programs for both students and teaching staff and I bring a wealth of experience to the very challenging role of Civil Celebrant.
As a member of The Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants, I not only believe in the Federation’s Philosophy and Code of Ethics, but I adhere to them in my unique celebrant role.
Qualifications:
- Advanced Diploma of General Celebrancy
- Advanced Diploma of Marriage Celebrancy
- Certificate IV in Marriage Celebrancy
- Advanced Diploma of Funeral Celebrancy
- Diploma of Teaching (Primary)
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.