Mission: EnCompass uses child and adult development to provide students and their families with the resources and community to achieve optimal well–being in self, family and society.
About the EnCompass Institute
The EnCompass Institute is committed to serving Pacific Northwest children and families who come with a strong desire to make lasting positive changes and optimize their development. Since 1985, more than 20,000 people worldwide have used Natural Learning Rhythms to achieve greater relationships, academic excellence and overall well being in their lives. We see parents from every religion, culture and economic class and we serve them all equally.
Mission
EnCompass uses child and adult development to provide students and their families with the resources and community to achieve optimal well–being in self, family and society.
Core Values
The goal of education and family is to discover the greatness that lives in each of us.
- Family cohesiveness, healthy relationships, and continuity of values between home and school are the keys to academic success and happy, socially able children.
- We use Natural Learning Rhythms and its inclusive appreciation of child development, family dynamics, multiple intelligences and learning styles to relate to the child as a whole being. In this conscientious relationship with the child the adult also develops.
- Healthy relationships are essential to all learning.
- The ultimate aim in life is for each individual to actualize their highest potential—their self–actualization.
Our Key Staff
- Ba Luvmour, MA
- Josette Luvmour, PhD
- Albee Kara, BA
- Amber Kara, BS
A Brief history of the Encompass Institute
- 1985 — EnCompass was founded by Ba and Josette Luvmour.
- 1997 — EnCompass opened its first center in Northern California on 120 acres of land with a school, conference and retreat center and outdoor education ropes course.
- 2003 — EnCompass relocates to Portland Oregon, bringing its four key staff along.
- 2008 — EnCompass becomes the EnCompass Institute with a vision for the future of opening the first private school in Oregon based on the Natural Learning Rhythms approach to human development.
- 2010 — Planned opening date for the EnCompass Institute in Portland Oregon, with its integrated Lab School, Family and Professional Development Center and Research Core.
