Books:

Dream Up Now

Dream Up Now: The Teen Journal for Creative Self-Discovery

Arts-based
Social-Emotional Learning

Look Inside!

Are the teens in your community struggling with difficult emotions?

Many young people lack adequate guidance on managing feelings. Stress can create a lot of unwelcome feelings: anger, irritability, sadness, anxiety, and worry. It can even cause problems with a student’s sleep. Stress happens to everyone; it doesn’t discriminate.

DREAM UP NOW is a cost-effective, social-emotional tool that helps young people understand and improve their feelings and attachment to school.

Dream Up Now: The Teen Journal for Creative Self-Discovery is a proven, arts-based guided journal from Teacher Created Materials, a leader in academic resources since 1983. This teen journal for creative self-discovery offers young people 36 fun, creative activities crafted by 18 community leaders across North America.

With insights and inspiration from 18 diverse leaders in the arts, education, and emotional wellness sectors, Dream Up Now guides teenagers to use emotional and social wellness skills to move from dark, challenging emotions to light and empowering ones.

Teenagers can engage in creative activities like writing, art, music and poetry within the pages of this journal to help them transform difficult emotions such as anxiety and confusion to confidence and passion!

“The stories and prompts from the wide variety of contributors help validate teens feelings and experiences, whatever they are, and help them process them so they can make positive choices.”

– Melissa Dinwiddie
Artist, Author & Educator

“Having a book like this for guidance and exploration of these feelings is really a priceless tool to use and navigate these especially emotionally challenging times. The book helps to validate what your teen might be feeling but even more importantly, gives them the tools to understand these feelings and to know how to move through them.”

– L. Watson

“My daughter is currently using this workbook and loves it. It’s an incredibly helpful tool not only for learning to name and understand emotion but for self-discovery as well. I think that not only teens but many adults could benefit from this workbook.”

– John Carleton

“This book can be used by anyone of any age who is wanting to learn and explore more about themselves and our very human emotional experiences. Highly recommended especially for creatives who don’t feel they fit in.”

– Julie McKenna

DOWNLOAD The Dream Up Now Leader Guide – FREE

This easy-to-follow guide will show you how to organize an arts-based social-emotional learning workshop for teens ages 11-17. Using the Dream Up Now journal as a foundation, you can lead young people to learn to manage difficult emotions and purposefully cultivate the kinds of feelings they want to have more often! All the workshop activities are in the journal, and they are accessible, equitable, and low-cost. Download the guide and get started today.

Get the Free Leader Guide Here

Plus! Free Bonus Worksheets for the Teens in your Life:

FREE! Who Am I?
FREE! Best Stuff In the World
FREE! Rewrite The Script