Become a RespectingChoices® Advance Care Planning Facilitator!

Training includes how to assist healthy adults to identify a healthcare advocate, discuss their values and wishes with their advocate, and complete Advance Directive documents. Those who complete the course receive certification as a First Steps Facilitator through Respecting Choices®.

Training Prerequisites

1. Complete four online training modules.
2. Initiate an advance care planning discussion with someone.
3. Complete an Advance Directive practice document.

Respecting Choices®

Respecting Choices® is an international, evidence-based advance care planning (ACP) program with a key message: ACP is a process of communication rather than a signature on a document.This process enables individuals to:

• Understand their choices for future healthcare
• Reflect on personal goals, values, religious or cultural beliefs
• Talk to physicians, healthcare agents and loved ones about their preferences.

To be effective, this process of communication needs to be individualized, based on a person’s state of health and revisited at appropriate times.

To register, click on the “Tickets” link above and then scroll to the bottom of the page.

Join us for lively discussion about life and death led by the participants and facilitated by Merilynne Rush and Diana Cramer. The Ann Arbor Death Cafe has been meeting every month since November, 2012, making us the longest standing continuously running Death Cafe in the world! For more information, please visit www.DeathCafe.com.

Due to high demand we are offering this, our second End-of-Life Doula Training, so soon after our first successful training in November. We won’t be offering it again until October. Please read all the info here. We’ve also started a Facebook conversation group for support to those doing this awesome work.
Learn how to provide extra support to families caring for their dying loved one. Based on the doula model of care developed for birth and postpartum and taught by experienced natural healthcare providers and educators Merilynne Rush and Patty Brennan, this is a one-of-a-kind, dynamic and fast-paced training limited to 20 people. Our well-developed teaching style comes from our combined years of experience with caring for families in transition and teaching others how to respond to the needs of others. We hope you’ll join us!

Event organized by the Michigan Political Union, a student group interested in civil rights. Speakers include:

Merilynne Rush, on green burial and home funeral

Mike Mitchell, funeral director, on funeral laws in Michigan

Rebecca Wrock, attorney, on advance directives

Roxane Chan and Rebecca Lehto, physicians, on palliative care

Light refreshments provided

Join us for lively discussion about life and death led by the participants and facilitated by Merilynne Rush and Diana Cramer. The Ann Arbor Death Cafe has been meeting every month since November, 2012, making us the longest standing continuously running Death Cafe in the world! For more information, please visit www.DeathCafe.com.

Join us for lively discussion about life and death led by the participants and facilitated by Merilynne Rush and Diana Cramer. The Ann Arbor Death Cafe has been meeting every month since November, 2012, making us the longest standing continuously running Death Cafe in the world! For more information, please visit www.DeathCafe.com.

Join us for lively discussion about life and death led by the participants and facilitated by Merilynne Rush and Diana Cramer. The Ann Arbor Death Cafe has been meeting every month since November, 2012, making us the longest standing continuously running Death Cafe in the world! For more information, please visit www.DeathCafe.com.

Learner Outcome: Describe trends and issues related to the revival of home funerals and green burials and resources for additional information available for patients and families. Nursing and Social Work CEU’s available. Introduction to Home Funeral and Green Burial with Q & A.