Get Certified in Creating Advance Directives

Join the Empowered Endings End of Life Planning Certification

Are you interested in providing End of Life Planning Services or helping others create clear and easily accessible Advance Care Directives? Learn a comprehensive and personalized approach to providing End of Life Planning with the user-friendly advanced care planning platform. This program, designed for End of Life professionals such as death doulas, nurses, chaplains, case workers, and medical doctors, teaches the Empowered Endings approach to End of Life Planning. You’ll learn how to guide those you support through the planning process utilizing the Empowered Endings Planning Platform to document and record their healthcare wishes and easily communicate them with healthcare providers, family members, and loved ones, ensuring they are understood and respected.

Research has shown that those with healthcare preferences documented in an advance directive are more likely to get the care they wish for at the end of life. Despite this, only about one out of three American adults have completed an advance directive. 

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This is Your Opportunity

This program gives you everything you need to shift the needle forward and help ensure everyone has a plan in place for an Empowered End of Life Experience™.

After completing this certification you can provide End of Life Planning services to your clients across the United States, both remotely and in person. This platform offers Death Doulas the opportunity to contribute meaningfully while monetizing your expertise.

What is the Empowered Endings Planning Platform?

This certification will not only teach you all you need to know about guiding people through creating their End of Life Plan but also how to use the Empowered Endings Planning Platform. The HIPAA-compliant platform will provide you and your clients with a safe and secure platform to document one’s End of Life preferences, ensuring the medical team and health care agents are informed.

After guiding your clients through the planning process, they will receive customized documents and videos, shared via QR codes, ensuring their care preferences are easily accessible and clearly communicated even when they can’t express them themselves. Following the Empowered Endings approach to End of Life Planning, this platform creates a framework for advanced directive that goes beyond the standard directives, enabling your clients to document specific wishes, including their preferences around legal End of Life Options, dementia, and even recorded video wishes.

Benefits of a Certification

By combining certified Death Doulas and our platform, you’ll help to increase access to advance care planning across all demographics and improve the way we all approach End of Life Care.

Through this program, you’ll gain a clear understanding of:

  • What End of Life Planning includes and why it is so critically important for every adult to have one in place;
  • How the Empowered Ending’s End of Life Planning Platform is different;
  • What role you play in guiding and supporting clients in End of Life Planning and why helpful;
  • What considerations need to be discussed and decided on throughout the planning process;
  • A basic understanding of End of Life Options;
  • How to use the Empowered Endings Planning Platform;
  • How you can support and facilitate discussion around decisions 
  • How to empower individuals in communicating plans.

What’s Included in the Certification?

Gain the tools, knowledge, and confidence to guide others through the End of Life Planning process—ensuring their wishes are heard, understood, and respected.

  • Seven Lessons: Teaching Guides how to support their clients in End of Life Planning using the Empowered Endings End of Life Planning Platform, powered by Thanacare.
  • Guidebook: A robust reference book that walks them through the entire End of Life Planning process.
  • Client End of Life Planning Workbook: A supportive workbook for clients to complete prior to their planning session to help them prepare and consider what they would like to include in their End of Life plan.
  • Special Pricing for the Empowered Endings Platform: to complete all End of Life Plans (includes benefits of platform & Empowered Endings more robust framework)
  • Required practice/hands-on experience: through the practicum.
  • Continued access to updated materials (when certified)
  • Ongoing access to the program and related Q&A Space (while becoming certified & when actively certified)

 

Ready to Make a Difference?

Join the waitlist today to become a certified Empowered Endings End of Life Planner and start providing the meaningful, personalized support your clients deserve. 

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