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How to dream in 3 easy steps. An illustration of a bucket, starfish and sandcastle with the instructions: Step 1) Fill your bucket. Step 2) Sort your treasure. Step 3) Build a dream.
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How to teach kids to dream in 3 steps

Wow! What another big honor. Thanks to years of research, we got a story in the preeminent blog for psychologists in Psychology Today. (It’s been a while, so I thought it would be okay to reprint this article now.) You’ll get an overview of our dream process, and you’ll learn more about our philosophy that drove the creation of the book. Yay!

Fun, 4-color, pencil and paper games including a blueprint, word search, origami fortune teller and a permission slip to dream.
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How to increase optimistic thinking. Part II. 

As we enter a new year full of new challenges, it is more important than ever to think optimistically. With the ongoing pandemic, social-emotional learning is more important now than ever. In creating our book, Dream It!: A Playbook to Spark Your Awesomeness, with my co-author Sara E. Williams, PhD, we did ground-breaking research that measured the effectiveness of strategies we identified to increase optimistic thinking in children.