Ba Luvmour, MA
As an educator, writer, developmental consultant, and public speaker, Ba specializes in the fields of human development, the Natural Learning Relationships of children, the evolution of consciousness through life, transformation learning, nurturing well-being in family relationships, relationship-based and holistic education, and teacher professional development. As a non-profit executive for 45 years, Ba directed three holistic schools and a large family learn center. He has taught in several universities, and currently devotes his time to Transformative Learning Foundation and the Certificate Program in Transformative Learning.
Ba delights in sharing his expertise with adults, professionals, and family groups seeking to deepen self-awareness, enliven optimal well-being, and develop access to innate wisdom. He is the author of six eBooks and six print books, including Optimal Parenting and Beyond Metaphor: Dialogue from the Realm of Self-knowledge as well as articles that focus on relationships with children.
With over 55 years of experience in spiritual practices such as yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, he integrates humor, insights, and wisdom into all teachings, inspiring students to deepen their self-knowledge and embrace holistic growth. He has studied with esteemed teachers in the fields of spiritual philosophy, education, and psychology. For seven years he lived in retreat in Hawaii focused on long hours of mediation and study. His core values are simple: relationship, authenticity, and integrity.
Together with his wife Josette co-created and developed Natural Learning Relationships, a whole-child understanding of child development. They have studied and explored consciousness since they met in 1979 and have been using Natural Learning Relationships with parents, children, whole families, educators; in experiential learning programs; in seminars, and with schools since the 1980s. Of special note, they have combined their consciousness-based approach to human development with extensive study and fieldwork to bring meaningful Rites of Passage to our times. Together they produced and hosted the popular podcast series, Meetings with Remarkable Educators. He lives with his grandchildren and dear son-in-law in Portland, Oregon.
Courses
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Whole Human Development
Centered in optimizing well-being, Natural Learning Relationship explores and describes the way children organize their world at different ages. During childhood, developmental capacities continually organize and reorganize toward optimal well-being depending on nurturing in the environment. When the organizing principle at each age of growth is nurtured properly by the adults in a child’s life, the child’s accesses their in-born capacities; thus the child is able to access optimal well-being in that age. Fulfilling each of the developmental capacities throughout childhood lays the foundation for us to access well-being in life and, ultimately, wisdom.
Natural Learning Relationships brings forth transformative mutually beneficial trusting relationships among all family members, while energizing teacher rejuvenation, informing curriculum, justice, and all aspects of everyday experience in diverse family and educational settings.
In this course you will learn how children live love, trust, spirituality, safety, and social justice in each moment of their lives.
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Spiritual Activism
Rites of Passage provide an opportunity for a face-to-face meeting with the unknown. This responds to the question of how we, as individuals, can experientially know ourselves as open-ended and whole. Done well, ROP create opportunities to touch the very depths of human possibility including the emergence of greater self- knowledge. Through dialogue and experiential learning, we will center on Rites of Passage for children—9 to 12, and 14-16.
Learn how to create and execute Rites of Passage to bring renewed connections with lost or abandoned capacities for guidance, vitality, and joy. ROP provides value in contemporary life including reconnection to: personal power, stability, energy, wisdom, and a maturity that is often expressed in service to others.
This course contributes important insights into transformation, human development, and education by offering all participants, children and elders, an avenue for direct experience with the mystery within.
Ba Luvmour and Amanda Fisher-Katz-Keohane discuss transformation and their TLF courses.