Gerald Fierst has traveled the world telling stories, celebrating the journey of life. As a storyteller, a certified celebrant, a recording artist, a writer and a teacher, he has chronicled love and marriage, birth and death, through his own words and through words that are as old as time.

Though cultures vary in word and symbol, the essential human experience is constant, keeping the old stories forever new. Stories were never just children’s entertainment, even in their simplest form, stories are moments to be present together. Story is breath—breathing together— Moments to laugh, to cry, to celebrate our lives together.

Celebrants are essentially storytellers. By creating ritual, we reconnect to the spirit of family . Whether a wedding, a commitment ceremony, a house warming, a baby naming, or a death, we are telling the essential stories of the life cycle. Storytellers use traditional and personal tales to tell everyone’s experience. Great teachers are storytellers, filling us with the desire to dream and explore. Storytellers, Teachers, Celebrants use the power of stories to create rituals that touch us, delight us, and connect us to each other and to the world.