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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

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

Mutual Development

Children bring change—Adult development in parent/child interactions

Deep involvement with the children in our lives breaks open our hearts to greater awareness. Wisdom is the result.

As a child grows, the adult parent must change to accommodate the child’s increasing complexity. By intentionally nurturing the child’s developmental needs, new meaning emerges in the adult and the adult often comes face to face with a greater understanding of his or her own unresolved childhood issues. Using reflection and self-inquiry, the past can be integrated with greater knowledge, improving well-being such as self-acceptance, courage and personal strength, resilience, open-mindedness, happiness, and greater connection with others.

Wisdom is a knowing. It’s not the kind of knowing I get from my head and my intellect, though my intellect gets to contribute. It’s not the kind of knowing I get from my heart and emotions, though my feelings get to contribute. Although there is a spiritual component, it is not a spiritual knowing. There is a wholeness to my wisdom that incorporates all of those kinds of knowing. My wisdom is generally very simple. There is rightness to it — not a right/wrong [type of] rightness but simply a deep “is-ness.” I can tell it’s wisdom by how I feel. There’s not struggle in wisdom. There may be struggling getting there but one of the ways I know that I am in wisdom is by its simplicity, its wholeness, its rightness. I have a certain peace in wisdom. I might be sad or happy or angry but underlying that is a peace in knowing. … [Child development information] is not something I use, it is something I am…It’s always part of who I’m being…I can live with uncertainty now.

MacKenzie A., mother and professional MFT

At Luvmour Consulting we will help you develop with your child. With the subsequent shift into well-being comes new life purpose and the emergence of wisdom in the adult. Deep involvement with the children in our lives can break open our hearts to greater awareness. Wisdom is the result.

I trust that there is wisdom in every interaction, and that if I can sit back and let that wisdom emerge, it will take us where we need to go. That’s what happened with my kids, and that’s what happens with my clients, and that happens with me. That’s part of being in the wisdom of the moment with them.

MacKenzie A., mother and professional MFT