Every person deserves to celebrate life's important events in the way they want!
My name is Claudia Morales and I am a secular celebrant. My surname definitely has a Spanish origin, but it is a distant loving root. I was born in Rome to an Italian father and a Belgian mother, so in addition to Italian, I have learnt French since I was born. I travelled a lot in Europe, and I realized I have many Mediterranean characteristics, but also others, more typical of northern European countries, such as pragmatism, secularism and a particular open-mind attitude.
I am very empathetic, and I have always liked to enter into profitable and deep relationships with people, to listen to them with respect and attention, to understand their needs, their emotions, and to meet their expectations. For me, being a celebrant means writing the protagonists' stories, telling their events, feelings, wishes and hopes, thus creating a ceremony that moves them, and that is truly special for them and for all the partecipants; it is also a way for me to support the universal human rights I believe in, such as the right to marriage of same-sex couples (civil union) or of divorced, secular, atheist or agnostic people. To be a celebrant, moreover, for me is to favour the right, for those who wish, to choose to have a non-religious but equally solemn and dignified funeral.