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Boulder Journey School

April 23, 2025

Reflecting on Children’s Spiritual Development

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
– Golda Meir

“We need a definition of spirit and spirituality that is separate from religion and religious education.” So proclaims Amelia Richardson Dress in an article that provides the foundation for an Exchange ReflectionsSpirit and Spiritual Development. Groups who have used the Reflections report that it sparked deep, interesting discussions and valuable insights.

Dress writes, “Leanne Hadley, whose work supporting children in crisis has been groundbreaking for both religious and secular professionals, uses this definition when she is working with children: Spirit is the thing within us that makes us us. Spirituality is the way we connect our ‘inner us’ to everything else, including other people’s inner ‘usness.’ This understanding helps us think creatively about how to approach spirituality while respecting a child’s home culture.”

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