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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

Ba and Josette’s work with Natural Learning Relationships provided the theoretical basis for Stages of Learning, which engages nearly 100% of public school students in grades 3-6 through theater-making.  As child development experts, their insights and expertise are invaluable to those of us who care about the social, psychological, and educational health of kids.

Floyd Rumohr
CEO of Stages of Learning
New York, NY

Healthy Adult Development

What is Healthy Adult Development?

  • Access to self-awareness leading to deeper purpose and meaning in life
  • Positive choices through life transitions
  • Conscientious relationship to grief, loss, and bereavement
  • The ability to get beyond unsatisfactory family narratives
  • The skill to access positive life practices
  • Creative engagement of mid-life transitions to greater self-knowledge and meaning
  • Conscious decision-making through times of crises
  • Greater access to self-understanding and self-reliance
  • Willingness to engage in critical self-reflection—to live a more authentic and integrated life.

Adult development involves transforming the self-perceptions that determine how we build our sense of identity, how we handle our emotions and our relationship to time, and how we construct meaning in life. Habits of mind, frame of reference, and ways of being change as well. The end result is the ability to live a more authentic and integrated life

Meaning in life increases when we use all available opportunities for growth. Adults who make sustained intentional efforts develop well-being and, ultimately, wisdom.

As we develop into healthy adults, shifts occur simultaneously in our:

  • Our mind’s ability to make new sense of the world involving differentiation from former ways of knowing and new meaning-making in life.
  • Our emotions and our ability to feel greater connection with others and access more love, trust, empathic connection, and re-formulate our values, ethics, and morals.
  • Our physical capabilities for health-promoting activities and increased personal strength.
  • Our spiritual capacity for joy, insight, compassion, gratitude, presence, and wisdom.

A change in one part affects a change in the whole system.

Wisdom is a human potential that is available to everyone. Wisdom is associated with many practical things in life. For example, the emergence of wisdom in adults can occur in relationships with children. When an adult is ready to make a commitment to learn how children develop and understand the child’s worldview, then wisdom is possible for the adult. The adult’s self-reflection is a key in this process. Josette’s dissertation research demonstrated that the relationship of nurturing the child’s developmental needs often results in that adult’s experiences of wisdom involving: (a) compassion, (b) service, (c) greater presence, (d) insight, and (e) gratitude.