Colleen Jantzen – Life Celebrant – Coming alongside to create meaningful Celebrations of Life

Creating Meaningful Celebrations of Life

Serving High River, Calgary and the Foothills

I am committed to coming alongside you to plan a meaningful experience to remember, honour, and celebrate your loved one in the way that best serves you, your family, and community.

The Role of a Life Celebrant

The death of a loved one, expected or not, is one of life’s most challenging circumstances. The process of planning and holding a celebration of life is crucial in helping us navigate this difficult time. My name is Colleen Jantzen and I live in High River, Alberta. My own experiences with death have brought home to me the importance of having an event that is personal and meaningful, one that both honours the person who died and helps us come to terms with our loss. At my core, I am a caregiver, and I would be honored to come alongside you and your family in the difficult journey of grief. I am a certified Life Celebrant with Life Celebrants International and hold a Master of Christian Studies degree from Ambrose Seminary in Calgary, Alberta. I have wide experience in public speaking and am comfortable working with people from all walks of life, including both religious and non-religious backgrounds.

Services

Celebration of Life

My goal is to support and guide you in preparing and facilitating a service that will be meaningful to your family and community. I am comfortable serving in faith and non-faith traditions alike.

Private Ceremony

If something small and intimate would serve you best, I would welcome the opportunity to prepare and facilitate this with you.

Graveside Service

I would be honored to work with you to prepare and facilitate a meaningful graveside service.

Care giving

I would welcome the opportunity to support you in your personal journey with grief.

What people are saying

Marsi

“Colleen is an excellent Life Celebrant. We required her assistance after the sudden passing of our mother. Colleen was the utmost professional to work with, she listened closely to our needs and tailored the service to reflect this. The service Colleen created was extraordinary and combined everything we wanted into a smooth cohesive service. Family members were extremely impressed with Colleen’s warm and clear delivery of the service, which was reassuring during such a difficult time. Colleen even helped us to ensure details we would have overlooked were addressed. We are forever grateful for her incredible work and highly recommend her as a Life Celebrant.”

Fay

Colleen came alongside our family at the death of our Mom. With her calm, competent manner, Colleen helped our family navigate this time with grace and a sense of common purpose. She helped us create a graveside and funeral service that provided meaningful comfort to every member of our large diverse family, honoring Mom’s beliefs, but also her legacy of love and inclusivity.

Christa

I am so very grateful for the caring, insightful and inclusive care Colleen offered our family. At a time when differing beliefs might have created conflict, left some feeling alone or worse yet, even excluded, Colleen wove our differences into a collective honouring of someone we shared a deep love for.

Blog Posts

Gathering

There is something profoundly strengthening and comforting about gathering with your community when someone you love dies.
Final Gifts

This book has some wonderful insights into this particularly tender and difficult journey
Every

Every person matters. Every single one. Every person warrants a stop, look, listen and remember.