Dream It!

It’s a workbook — or as we like to call it, a playbook! — designed to help children learn how to dream and channel their passion into action.  It uses visually stimulating and interactive exercises to tackle dreams from every angle: from conceptual to feeling to playing. And, it is designed for a variety of learning and teaching styles, and filled with unique emotional exercises to connect students to their passion and values. And maybe best of all, the Playbook will serve as a journal or scrapbook that records these formative years that parents and children will treasure forever. 

The Playbook is designed for about 4-8th graders (about 8–14 years old), but actually, we think everyone could benefit from these new and important dream-building tools. So, we invite adults to participate in the dreaming process, too! While the exercises—or games as we like to call them—are appropriate for children to work on independently, we also encourage adults to explore the book and play the games together with children. And—who knows—maybe along the way some adults will recapture an old dream or two. And, if groups want to use the book in a classroom, workshop or even a birthday party, students will get a chance to put these skills to practice and share and collaborate dreams with their classmates.

• To inspire the imagination of the “impossible” and thinking outside of the box
• To create the foundation of a life goal and the self-motivation to take action to live that life to the fullest
• To encourage attitudes that are hopeful, open-minded, cooperative and forward-thinking
• To provide kids a method and platform to share their thoughts, feelings and ideas

• To provide a tangible way for parents and children to bond over life values and goals
• To inspire your children to be the creators of their own destiny
• To create a memory that will become a cherished family heirloom

• To provide a useful tool for working with kids in educational and therapeutic disciplines
• To create an experiential learning opportunity to develop basic life skills like: creativity, critical thinking, reading, writing and more
• To provide insight into student’s learning styles and personality
• To facilitate social and emotional learning, particularly in the area of self-awareness, optimistic thinking, goal-setting and overcoming obstacles.

• Since we don’t live in the world alone, it’s essential that kids not only learn how to dream but also how to play with others. When it comes to making dreams a reality, history proves this true because even something as simple as an ice cream cone was the result of two people working together.
• If groups want to use the book in the classroom, a workshop, or even a birthday party, students will get a chance to put these skills to practice and share and collaborate dreams with their classmates.

There is no right or wrong way as long as you are having fun and learning. In fact, we guaranteed you’ll be inspired with a new dream. “Dream it!” is easy to use because it has been designed to be self-explanatory for children to complete independently. That being said, our recommended method is to follow the pages one-by-one, in order. We know it is tempting to skip ahead, but one concept leads to another. For example, you need to fill your Bucket List before you can sort them according to passion, logic and skills.

Go here to download our facilitator guides for parents, teachers, facilitators and health care professionals.

Absolutely! We even have a facilitator’s guide based on years of working with kids in the classroom. The “Dream It!” workbook is an evidence-based activity that improves social-emotional learning like optimistic thinking, growth mindset, hope and grit (perseverance) and other important life skills. It is also proven to improve the general school climate. More specifically, the book will help children translate their passion into realistic, tangible goals. It will also motivate children to higher achievement in all areas of their studies, like reading, writing and math, to help them achieve those goals. 

After 4 years in development, we’re excited to announce that “Dream It!” has been published by Magination Press.

“Magination Press is the children’s book imprint of the American Psychological Association. Through our publishing we share with the world mental health expertise and psychological knowledge. Our books reach young readers and their parents and caregivers to make navigating life’s challenges a little easier. It’s the combined power of psychology and literature that makes our books special.”

We feel this is the perfect publisher for the Playbook’s themes of passion, optimistic thinking and social-emotional learning. We couldn’t be more excited. The “Dream It! Playbook” has grown bigger than us and we just couldn’t do it alone.