The Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence is a global initiative to advance the research and practice of this important and understudied domain of human development. Search Institute, with major support from the John Templeton Foundation, is designing the center to become an international hub of theory, research, and practice.
What Is Spiritual Development? (PDF) — An in-process overview of how Search Institute currently understands spiritual development as a core process of human development that occurs in the lives of all children and youth across cultures and traditions. Learn more about how Search Institute is developing its consensus-based definition of spiritual development.






