My career started as a university trained science teacher, then moved into counselling and health education. A decade of my work was in the alcohol and other drug field, half of which was as the Founding Director of CEIDA, the NSW Centre for Education and Information on Drugs and Alcohol, which during the 1980s and l990s was nationally acknowledged as an organisation providing innovative strategies for dealing with alcohol, other drugs, and AIDS/HIV issues.
After moving on to work in disability, aged care and carer support services, and I was appointed as a Celebrant in 1990. My pevious work and now my role as a civil celebrant has hightlighted the importance of relationships in supporting and nurturing family and community members. I realise that daily life involves change and dealing with losses as well as gains. Even positive and life-affirming events, such as coming of age, marriage, the birth of a child, or retirement, are associated with loss, the loss of a way of life which was present before the event.
Ceremonies are an important way for us all to acknowledge these changes in life so we can move forward with hope and support.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind regards
Rona
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