Here we are sharing some of the key resources that are informing our work.
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SACRED DESIGN LAB 2025 Key insights into spiritual innovation & human flourishing A recent report by Sacred Design Lab, based on research conducted over 18 months, highlights spiritual innovators around the world who are addressing profound spiritual longings in novel ways. Eight key insights showcase the critical role of spiritual innovation in fostering human flourishing. |
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LadBible 2025 Report
Britain’s Gen Z are far from the ‘disengaged’ digital stereotype, they’re a generation defined by faith, friendship and local pride - finding meaning in spirituality, wellness and community as well as in their social feeds. 6 in 10 (59%) identify with religion or spirituality – often blending prayer, manifestation and astrology. While generations are often perceived to be becoming less religious, four in ten (43%) Gen Z say they identify as religious and if we add in spirituality, this proportion rises to six in ten (59%). Instead of formal church attendance, Gen Zs are finding meaning through individual practices such as prayer (43%), manifestation (28%), meditation and mindfulness (27%) and astrology (14%) – often discovered through social platforms. Nearly half (44%) also say that religious figures and content creators (50%) on social media influence their social and political views. |
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One Hope Global Youth Culture 2025
What trends and behaviors do teens around the world have in common? Which ones do they have that differ? Whether you’re curious about their attitudes and beliefs, or their habits and behaviors, this Global Report presents a wide range of findings to help us understand this generation as a whole. This report compiles survey responses from 8,394 teens from 20 countries. |
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The Next Generation of Faith: Journeys, Meaning and Wellbeing report by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL)
A “SPIRITUAL awakening” is happening in Generation Z-A (11-18s), which “defies every prediction about declining religious engagement”. The charity was launching a report last week, Z-A Growing Spirituality, drawing on 1009 completed anonymous online surveys from across Britain which a research company undertook for it in May. Of the respondents, 52 per cent identified as Christian. One third (35 per cent) considered themselves to be “a follower of Jesus” — up from 23 per cent in a YFC survey carried out in 2020 — and eight per cent said that they attended church as part of their week — up from four per cent. |
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The State of Religion & Young People 2023: Exploring the Sacred
Uncovers the truth and dispels the myths surrounding young people and religion, spirituality, and the sacred. Not only are young people looking for sacred experiences, but they’re cultivating a Sacred Sensibility through connection, relationships, and community. |
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UNICEF What Makes Me Report 2021The UNICEF 2021 What Makes Me Report synthesises the work of nine detailed working papers – covering the core capacities of ‘Discerning patterns’, ‘Embodying’, ‘Empathizing’, ‘Inquiring’, ‘Listening’, ‘Observing’, ‘Reflecting’, ‘Relaxing’, and ‘Sensing’ – that individually review the empirical evidence on each core capacity in the academic literature.
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World facing a global compassion deficit - 2019 CIVICUS reportCivil society organisations providing humanitarian assistance to migrants and refugees are being targeted as the world faces a crisis of global compassion. This alarming trend is one of the findings of the State of Civil Society Report 2019, an annual report by global civil society alliance CIVICUS, which looks at events and trends that impacted on civil society over the year.
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Gen Y Spirituality and Social Change (Book)
Young people are doing faith differently. They are redefining community, ministry and ritual for a new era. In the face of planetary crisis, the next generation no longer see faith as a private matter, instead they are integrating it with activism and the need for systemic change. Influenced by the wealth of different teachings and traditions available around them, their identities are increasingly multifaceted and emphatically global. This collection of stories and interviews with young adults and their allies explores this new landscape, reflecting both the energy and inspiration of the next generation and the tremendous challenges they face. It points towards an exciting evolution in the way we are relating to the sacred. |
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2019: Spiritual Development: Interpretations of spiritual development in the classroom - Church of England Education OfficeHow well does the school support all pupils in their spiritual development, enabling all pupils to flourish? During the country-wide consultations in preparation for the 2018 SIAMS schedule, it became clear that English Church schools have many different definitions and articulations of spiritual development.
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2018 Religion and Worldviews: The Way ForwardThe Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) spent the two years listening to evidence from a wide-range of concerned parties including pupils, teachers, lecturers, advisers, parents and faith and belief communities and received over three thousand submissions. They were convinced that RE needs rejuvenating if it is to continue to make its important contribution; indeed if it is not to wither on the vine.
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2017 RSA Spiritualise ReportSpiritualise is a tenacious inquiry into the philosophical coherence, scientific grounding and cultural relevance of spiritual perspectives, experiences and practices. The first edition was the culmination of a two-year project at the RSA in London involving over three hundred participants including atheists, agnostics, and people of various faiths. This second edition includes an extended new preface and an additional chapter focussed on the relationship between spiritual sensibility and political imagination.
2016 Manifesto for a Healthy and Health-Creating SocietyThis manifesto addresses both the UK’s external role in the world and the internal provision of services and creation of a healthy and health-creating society. It offers a positive vision for how the UK can benefit from the brilliance of its clinicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs in the fields of health and biomedical and life sciences—but only if all sectors contribute and work together to do so.
2015 Mindful Nation UK ReportPublished on behalf of the UK Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group in October 2015, the Mindful Nation UK report was the first policy document of its kind, seeking to address mental and physical health concerns in the areas of education, health, the workplace and the criminal justice system through the application of mindfulness-based interventions.
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This investigation focused on the curious acronym that is ‘SMSC’: the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils.1 The duty of schools to promote SMSC has remained a constant in UK education since 1944. Many existing schools have always placed a premium on these qualities, whilst new academies and Free Schools often strongly emphasise school ethos and character development in their initial establishment.
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2013: Living with Difference Reportin September 2013 the Woolf Institute convened an independent commission to undertake over a two-year period the first systematic review of the role of religion and belief in the UK today and to make policy recommendations.Twenty commissioners from across Great Britain and Northern Ireland accepted the invitation to take part and they were well supported by a hard-working secretariat. .
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Quaker Insight in EducationThis booklet has been written by the Quaker Values in Education Group, 2016. QVinE, which is a listed group within Britain Yearly Meeting, grew out of a widely held concern about the state of our schools and the impact of recent policy moves on the educational principles and practices to which many teachers feel committed.
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UN Faith for Earth InitiativeSpiritual values for more than 80% of the people living on earth have been driving individual behaviors. In many countries, spiritual beliefs and religions are main drivers for cultural values, social inclusion, political engagement, and economic prosperity. Since its resolution in 2008 on the “promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace” the UN General Assembly has encouraged the promotion of dialogue among all cultures for promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue, tolerance and understanding.
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