Josette Luvmour, PhD

Josette Luvmour is a renowned educator, writer, developmental consultant, and mentor specializing in human development. She focuses on Natural Learning Relationships of children, the evolution of consciousness, and adult transformation learning, emphasizing the interconnected growth of adults and children. Her work nurtures well-being in family relationships, enhancing self-knowledge, and relationship-based education.

Josette currently teaches at Antioch University’s Individualized Master of Arts (IMA) program in the School of Education and at the Transformative Learning Foundation. With over 55 years of experience in spiritual practices such as yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, she integrates humor, insights and wisdom into her teachings, inspiring students to deepen their self-knowledge and embrace holistic growth. She studied with esteemed spiritual and psychological teachers, participated in transformative retreats, and completed a seven-year retreat in Hawaii focusing on the Eightfold Path lifestyle, with hours of meditation, and study. This deep immersion informs her authentic approach and integrity in her courses.

As an accomplished author, Josette has published six eBooks and six print books, including the Mom’s Choice Award-winning Grow Together: Parenting as a Path to Well-Being, Wisdom, and Joy. Alongside her husband, Ba Luvmour, she co-developed the Natural Learning Relationships model, a whole-child understanding of child-development that has been widely applied in seminars, schools and in experiential learning programs since the 1980s. Together, they have integrated this consciousness-based approach with fieldwork to reintroduce meaningful Rites of Passage in modern contexts.

Josette creates welcoming and transformative learning environments that foster personal growth, family bonds and development, and holistic well-being. She shares her insights through teaching, consulting, writing, and mentoring students. Based in Portland, Oregon, she and Ba continue to inspire learners on the spiritual journey and human development.

Her warm, inviting approach makes her a trusted guide for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of child development, education, and the spiritual journey. 

https://www.luvmourconsulting.com/


Courses

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  • Whole Human Development Zone

    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 Zone

    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.

Watch an interview with Josette Luvmour as she talks with Sam Crowell about Transformation and courses with TLF.

TLF faculty conversation with Josette Luvmour and Sidney Olivia Garcia.