Author | Ceremonialist | Celebrant Trainer | Retreat Hostess | Community Minister

Welcome to my website: a portal into the compelling and beautiful body of work I create on a daily basis as an author, celebrant, celebrant trainer and community minister.

Author and Novelist

My novels explore sacred space and moments, and the beauty and bruises of relationships. They are deliberately rooted in the power of family, and the characters are often on a journey of discovering their life purpose by encountering the shimmer of their soul.

My non-fiction books include parenting, education, health, birth, celebrancy and recipe books. Explore my books at Starflower Press.

Ceremonialist

I’ve created, written and led all manner of ceremonies, across all rites of passage, since 1995 when I officiated my first wedding that sunny day in New Zealand. Over that time I have garnered extensive experience and have an intuitive sense about what is right for my clients. Each ceremony is bespoke (no templates, no outsourcing, no AI) and comes from heart.

With an MA Creative Writing and as a romance novelist, I bring a whole load of magic to my wedding ceremonies.

My dedication to improving funeral ceremonies is evidenced in my popular book Write That Eulogy.

Celebrant Training in Cumbria

It has been my pleasure to officiate ceremonies internationally, and because of my vast and extensive experience over the span of three decades, I offer one-to-one celebrant training (alongside my husband, voice and presentation coach, Paul Robinson) here in Cumbria through Heart-led Celebrants. I love teaching others the wonderful vocation of celebrancy!

My passion for best-practice celebrancy is highlighted by my longevity and expertise in the profession as well as the prolific contribution I’ve made to the industry with books I’ve written for the Celebrant Collection. You can also see issues 1 to 13 of The Celebrant magazine which I edited and published here.

Retreats

Further to my work as a celebrant trainer, I offer twice-yearly retreats for celebrants (no matter where they originally trained) here in beautiful rural Cumbria.

Heart-led Ministry

My Heart-led Ministry, as an expression of living a life of sacred service, offers:

• ceremonies across all rites of passage
• client-led spiritual counselling
• peripatetic sermons
• community outreach (chaplaincy | pastoral care)
• classes on spiritual and personal development

My ministry is based on maintaining openness of heart and mind, embracing others with awareness and care no matter their spiritual background, and serving in a respectful way by honouring the universal truths in all spiritual traditions.

As a non-conformist ordained multi-faith and no-faith minister, I’m part of an international, inclusive and interfaith community. I offer support and ceremonies to people from all walks of life and spiritual traditions, religious faiths, as well as to those who are Agnostic or Atheist.

My own life-long spiritual path has been a melting pot of Metaphysics, Theosophy, Unity Church, New Thought Ministries, A Course in Miracles (a foundational text of profound spirituality), Law of Assumption, Eastern Religions, Mysticism, Plant Medicine, Spiritualism, Zen, Evolutionary and Psychological Astrology, Meditation and Psychic Mediumship. (I’m grateful to the supporters, mentors and teachers on my way, especially Rev. Kirsten Rose, Universal Life Church; Margaret Strong, Penrith Spiritual Centre; Harry Shute, Theosophical Society; Rev. Angela Maughan, Open Sanctuary; Rev. Graeme Johnson of Unity School of Christianity, and New Thought Ministries; Rev. Rhonda Joy Gola, spiritual leader for Unity School of Christianity and director of Silent Unity in New Zealand.)

As Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and author of The Prophet, once wrote: “work is love made visible.”

Ceremonies Offered

Ceremonies across all rites of passage, including but not limited to:

• Conscious Conception
• Blessingways
• Baby Blessings
• Namings: All ages and genders
• Adoption
• Aspersion baptism (for all ages)
• Anointing with Holy Oil
• Botanical Ash Scattering
• House Blessings
• Little Free Library Opening
• Career Change
• New Business
• Menarche (new to the Moon)
• Teenage coming-of-age ceremonies
• Loving Bonds: Blessings, Weddings, Handfastings, Vow Renewals, Civil Partnership
• Parting of the Ways
• Divorce Healing
• Leaving Prison
• Leaving Rehabilitation
• Living with Illness (entering into or recovery from)
• Bereavement: Mandala Funerals, Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Living Funerals, Advanced Funeral Planning, Cremation, Burial, Eco-burial, Interment or Scattering of Ashes.
• Sagesse (wisdom/wise elder)
• Conscious Parting From The Earth Plane
• Last Rites

My Desiderata

My personal and ordination vows are encompassed in my desiderata:

“Living from the heart, and with my whole being, I offer a path of grace between those of faith and no faith. We meet in the place of love. This practice is rooted in my experiences of the sacred gifts of the Divine Feminine, Mother Earth and the Greater Cosmos; and embedded in stillness, silence and awareness. The road I walk is one of fearlessness, empathy, delight, reverence, inner harmony, peace, creativity and recognising the interconnectedness between all living beings.”

I also express my ministry through philanthropy by way of humanitarian care and global projects such as:

www.lendwithcare.org (microfinance loans, grants and donations to people in low-income countries)

www.habitforhumanity.co.uk (fighting global poverty and homelessness)

www.trussel.org.uk (food banks in the UK)

www.treesisters.org  (a reforestation charity that places tropical forest restoration into everyone’s hands)

How may I be of service?

Yours, Reverend Veronika Robinson

“Every thought is a prayer, and every word a spell”