Center for Spiritual Development

For Youth Workers and Educators

You can make this your "go to" site for up-to-date research, practical strategies, and new ideas for nurturing a whole child--body, mind, and spirit.

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Inspired to Serve

An Online Tool Kit for Youth-Led Interfaith Action

Features

What Does Spirituality Mean? Young People Speak Out
From focus groups with 171 young people, ages 12-19, in 13 different countries and representing wide diversity in tradition, culture, and circumstances, a series of themed quotations demonstrate their eloquence, their doubts and struggles, their understandings and growth.
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Practical Strategies
A good deal of the impact and importance of our work on spiritual development will reveal itself through application--through the use of the ideas, theories, data, and research in classrooms, youth-serving organizations, and faith communities.

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Background and Research

What Others are Saying

"In my research I've found that the majority of teens are interested in spiritual things, but there is a definite trend away from established religion. I wonder how this will pan out..."

The Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

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Minneapolis MN 55413
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