Become a Certified
Seven Exits Empowerment Partner
Step into a new professional path grounded in clarity, integrity, and emotional truth.
Learn the framework, tools, and partnering skills needed to support others with confidence and compassion.
A professional pathway for those ready to support others with clarity, integrity, and the power of the Seven Exits Framework.
This is an online experience. Application is required.
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What is Empowerment Partnering?
Empowerment Partnering is a structured, relationship-based support practice grounded in the Seven Exits Framework.
It is not coaching, not therapy, and not mentorship. It is a profession with its own identity, standards, skill set, and ethical foundations.
Empowerment Partners help individuals move toward emotional clarity, alignment, and personal agency using a proprietary, non-clinical method designed for personal wellness.
Graduates emerge with the confidence and competence to offer a meaningful professional service built on empowerment, integrity, and human-centered care.
Seven Exits Makes Empowerment Possible!
Empowerment Partnering is a profession with its own identity, standards, skill set, and ethical foundations, founded by Dr. Rosenna Bakari.
Begin Your Transformation
In The Next 6 Months, You Could Help Clients…
- Recognize the subtle emotional patterns shaping their choices
- Release beliefs, roles, and expectations that no longer serve them
- Strengthen their ability to trust their inner direction
- Make decisions from clarity instead of pressure or habit
- Build the relationships, boundaries, and rhythms that support who they're becoming
- Live with a deeper sense of alignment, confidence, and ease
Life shifts in powerful ways when partners offer clients clarity and guidance to release what no longer serves them.
Are You Ready to Join the Movement?
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
If You Are Called to Support
The Seven Exits Empowerment Partner Certification is created for individuals who feel called to support others in their personal growth.
It is designed for those who want to build a professional foundation in wellness work but are not licensed therapists or certified coaches.
This online program is best suited for people who have:
✔ Significant personal experience with healing or emotional growth
✔ Educational, life, or work backgrounds that exposed them to mental wellness environments
✔ Emotional maturity, grounded self-awareness, and strong communication skills
✔ A genuine desire to guide others through clarity and transformation
This is not an entry point for individuals with no experience in people-centered environments.
An application is required to determine readiness and alignment.
What Makes This A Signature Program?
Filling a Professional Gap
There is a growing need for emotionally grounded, well-trained professionals who can support individuals through personal alignment and empowerment — without diagnosing, treating, or relying on clinical interventions.
Empowerment Partnering fills that gap with a:
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structured methodology
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ethical foundation
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professional identity
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competency-based certification
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clear scope of practice
The Seven Exits Empowerment Certification is a career path rooted in human support, without licensure barriers.
It is a meaningful, respected role for individuals who want to make a difference without entering the clinical mental health field.
The Art and Skills of Empowerment Partnering
Empowerment Partnering is not coaching, counseling, or mentoring. It is an ethical, structured, and emotionally grounded way of supporting people as they move toward clarity, truth, and alignment.
Throughout your six-month training, you’ll develop the presence, skill, and professionalism required to practice this work with confidence and integrity.
You’ll learn how to:
✔ Offer guided reflection and structured listening
✔ Facilitate empowerment-based dialogue that honors client agency
✔ Ask curious, non-leading questions that open insight
✔ Use personal disclosure intentionally and sparingly, so you stay out of the client’s way
✔ Navigate the Seven Exits Framework with clients
✔ Hold a responsible, clearly defined professional role
✔ Set and maintain healthy, empowering boundaries
✔ Practice ethical partnering rooted in emotional safety
✔ Create a supportive, non-directive environment for growth
✔ Guide alignment-based decision-making without directing outcomes
✔ Build a partnering practice grounded in integrity and trust
These skills form the foundation of a professional practice that supports transformation without pressure, performance, or control.
Certification Requirements
The Empowerment Partnering Certification is a professional training with clear expectations and structured accountability.
To earn certification, participants must demonstrate competency, maturity, and ethical readiness in each of the following areas:
✔ Completion of the Seven Exits Course
A complete understanding of the Seven Exits Framework is foundational to all partnering work.
✔ Synchronous Online Training Sessions
Active participation in live cohort sessions to develop skills, presence, and professional posture.
✔ One-on-One Supervision with Dr. Bakari
Personalized guidance and feedback to support growth, grounding, and skill refinement.
✔ Recorded Practice Sessions for Assessment
Participants must submit recordings that demonstrate competency in partnering skills and ethical communication.
✔ Supervised Partnering Hours (Practicum)
Hands-on practice with real clients or volunteers, completed under professional oversight.
✔ Professional Conduct & Ethical Readiness
Demonstrating the ability to partner responsibly, maintain boundaries, and honor the scope of practice.
✔ Final Competency Evaluation
A pass/fail assessment designed to ensure each graduate is prepared to offer Empowerment Partnering at a professional level.
Professional Opportunity
The Seven Exits Empowerment Partner Certification prepares you for a meaningful professional role—one that is grounded in clarity, integrity, and human-centered support. While this is a rigorous and respected certification, it is important to understand the nature of the opportunity it creates.
What This Certification Is Not
✔ This is not a degree program, and it does not qualify you for licensed or clinical positions.
✔ This is not a coaching or therapy credential, and it does not authorize you to diagnose, treat, or offer specialized mental health services.
✔ This is not a pathway to trauma work, marriage counseling, child-focused services, or addiction treatment.
What This Certification Is
This program is best suited for individuals who intend to build an independent wellness practice rooted in emotional clarity, empowerment, and personal alignment. You will be trained to support clients ethically, responsibly, and professionally within a clearly defined non-clinical scope.
As a Certified Empowerment Partner, you will be well-prepared to support individuals with:
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Relationship challenges
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Negative or limiting thinking patterns
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Self-regulation and emotional steadiness
(grounding, clarity, managing emotional activation) -
Career and life transitions
(decision-making, values clarification, identity shifts) -
Personal growth and empowerment
(self-awareness, voice, boundaries, alignment) -
Developing self-discipline and healthy follow-through
(building routines, honoring commitments to oneself, sustaining change)
These areas represent the heart of Empowerment Partnering: guiding people toward greater truth, alignment, and emotional freedom—without stepping into clinical, diagnostic, or therapeutic territory.
Your Role as a Certified Empowerment Partner...
As a Certified Seven Exits Empowerment Partner, you step into a professional role rooted in integrity, emotional presence, and ethical support. Your work is grounded in the Seven Exits Framework and centers on helping individuals navigate their inner world with greater clarity and confidence.
You will be trained to:
✔ Support clients through honest, structured conversations that help them see their emotional patterns more clearly.
✔ Guide individuals toward alignment-based decision-making without directing, managing, or rescuing.
✔ Hold a supportive, non-directive space where clients feel safe to explore their inner truth.
✔ Help clients identify emotional patterns that keep them small, silent, overwhelmed, or over-functioning.
✔ Strengthen clients’ self-trust and personal agency by reflecting their truth back to them with compassion and clarity.
✔ Navigate the Seven Exits Framework professionally to support meaningful, step-by-step growth.
✔ Model grounded presence and emotional steadiness as clients move through challenging or unfamiliar inner work.
✔ Maintain ethical boundaries and appropriate scope so your support remains safe, empowering, and non-clinical.
What you don’t do:
- You do not diagnose
- You do not treat mental illness
- You do not offer crisis intervention
- You do not work in specialized fields (trauma, addiction, child therapy, etc.)
- You do not position yourself as a therapist or coach
Empowerment Partnering is a transformation-based practice, not a problem-solving model.
Your role is to illuminate patterns, reflect truth, and maintain ethical boundaries so clients can move toward alignment without pressure, coercion, or dependency.
Why Train with Dr. Bakari
Her guidance comes from a lifetime of rising, rebuilding, and choosing alignment, and she teaches you how to support others with the same honesty, courage, and depth.
Founder of Seven Exits
Dr. Rosenna Bakari is a psychologist, empowerment expert, and educator with more than 30 years of experience helping individuals reclaim their voice, clarity, and emotional freedom.
She began her academic journey at 17, earning a B.S. in Psychology from Cornell University. She completed her M.S. in Counselor Education at SUNY Brockport at age 22 and later earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado.
Her academic accomplishments are even more remarkable given an early misdiagnosis: after a childhood seizure at age 7, she was labeled “mildly retarded.” One year later, her teachers identified her as mentally gifted—a turning point that ignited her lifelong commitment to challenging limiting narratives and empowering others to rise beyond them.
A Life that Embodies Alignment and Empowerment
Dr. Bakari lives by the principles she teaches. She has:
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Raised two children
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Maintained a 34-year marriage
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Earned a 4th-degree black belt
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Completed her third marathon at age 62
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Traveled to 35 countries
A Distinguished Career
For more than 25 years, Dr. Bakari taught undergraduate and graduate psychology, published scholarly articles, and delivered dynamic talks that reached diverse audiences on radio, podcast, and in person.
Her work spans emotional wellness, leadership development, empowerment training, and the development of new models of non-clinical support rooted in human connection and personal agency.
Her life is proof that transformation is not a moment—it’s a lifelong practice.
Author of Seven Books on Healing, Clarity & Transformation
Her writing career began in 1996 with Self-Love: Developing and Maintaining Self-Esteem for the Black Woman. She has since authored seven books, including Tree Leaves, Original Sin, Too Much Love Is Not Enough, The Healing Journey, Three-Day Reset, and her latest, Seven Exits, the framework that now defines her most groundbreaking work.
Creative and Transformational Storyteller
Beyond academia, Dr. Bakari is a transformational spoken word artist, playwright, and blogger. Her performances and creative work use story, rhythm, and emotional truth to make empowerment accessible and unforgettable.
In 2018, she was named a Woman of Influence by the Colorado Springs Business Journal.
Dr. Bakari has a rare gift of a person who helps you see yourself clearly without ever making you feel judged.
- Martin / Systems Specialist
Working with Dr. Bakari changed the way I move through the world. She teaches with such depth and compassion that you naturally rise into the best version of yourself.
- Natasha / Entertainment
Rosenna Bakari made me believe that change was within my grasp when I thought I was too old to change some things. So, the changes I didn't expect happened.
- April / Nurse
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