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I think Natural Learning Relationships was the most helpful thing we learned when we were raising our children. I'm very grateful for the difference it made in our family, and recommend your book often.

Rod Newton
Hidden Springs
Wellness Center
Ashland, OR

It is incredible to be so fully engaged in my life, especially in the relationships with my family and the other children in my life. Thank you for your wise guidance in opening up this possibility.

- Danelle T.
Teacher & Bookkeeper
Tigard, OR

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Josette Luvmour, PhD

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Josette’s Teaching Style

I have been educating adults since 1992. My training and experience has helped me cultivate skills used to educate people across the life-span. In my view, the best learning opportunities for students come when a curriculum is constructed with real-life experiential learning opportunities built into it. Although there are a number of conditions within which learning occurs, one primary thing when teaching is to know the students and shape the curriculum to meet their learning styles with relevant contextual meaning. Competence comes from the experience of living something not from the intellect alone, nor from the perfection of any aspect of performance.

Instructional Methods

  • Seminar, lecture, student presentations, role play, assignments, experiential learning activities.
  • Trust building with the instructor and among students with one another.
  • Student environment: open dialogue, address power discrepancies, include marginalized voices.
  • Respectful engagement of ideas and multiple views: Co-create and negotiate outcomes, co-create ground rules, listening without dismissing, no attacking.
  • Critical reflection: Stimulate questioning, self-inquiry, compare and contrast ideas and let dialectic arise among students, guide engaged respectful discussion.
  • Contextualize the material: Become aware of contextual and cultural influences.
  • Co-creation of knowledge with students: Building knowledge from experiential learning.
  • Discuss application of theory to practice and culminate the course with a learning project (social action): Each student designs their own project and situates it in the literature.

Areas of focus in Josette’s teaching include:

  • Lifespan development—human development across all ages and stages
  • The processes of bi-directional development between child and adult
  • Human relationships with a focus on well-being
  • Systems theory and family systems
  • Whole-family experiential learning
  • Transformational learning in adults
  • The roles and responsibilities of the teacher/educator in relationship to the child
  • Applying skills of whole-child development to school relationships
  • Ecology of the family, school, and community
  • Adult/child communication
  • Organizational culture change
  • Leadership development
  • Dialogic processes, including formal inquiry