About Louhelen

Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Founded in 1931, Louhelen serves as an education and conference center for the Great Lakes region, and for students and partner organizations across the nation and around the globe. Louhelen provides spiritual and practical education and community service-learning opportunities for all ages, empowering diverse paths to personal development within a common commitment of service to humanity. Collaborative partnerships with community-based organizations—locally, nationally, and internationally—create diverse opportunities to link learning to action for community improvement.

A Diverse Learning Community

With full-scale education and conference facilities serving groups of up to 250 people at a time, Louhelen learners have the unique advantage of experiencing a small-scale, spiritually and socially vibrant residential learning community, enriched by a culturally and socially diverse student population. Louhelen’s vibrant community-based learning environment encourages active exploration of human interests and issues and consultation on effective paths of service to address them.

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Education: The Foundation of Every Human Excellence

Louhelen’s approach to learning and its community service programs expresses the distinctive Bahá'í commitment to education as “the indispensable foundation of every human excellence.” This vision of education embraces learning that is:

Dedicated to the independent investigation of truth and freedom of conscience. . .

inspired by the world-embracing, unifying spiritual vision and community development focus of the Bahá'í Faith

 

Dedicated to active learning and transformative change. . .

stimulated by courses and programs that engage learners in a dynamic cycle of learning, active community service, collaborative reflection, and moving forward into a new cycle of learning

 

Dedicated to empowering individual initiative through the spirit of friendship and collaboration. . .

infused with a vibrant spirit of individual initiative and creativity, balanced with a clear-headed, systematic, and efficient capacity for unified collaboration with other individuals and groups

 

Dedicated to fostering the spirit and habits of respect for the well-being of all. . .

committed to building true unity, beyond barriers of prejudice and estrangement; recognizing and valuing the inherent interconnectedness of all elements in a community

 

Dedicated to translating visionary ideals of global citizenship into daily deeds of constructive living. . .

challenged to accept personal responsibility for determining, with word and deed, how to contribute to the emerging global human future we all share

 

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