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

This guided journal for creative self-expression allows teens to explore emotions, create art, and envision life's possibilities.

Dream Up Now(TM) offers a safe space for creative self-expression of all emotions, both positive and negative. Every emotion is valid in this journal, and teens are encouraged to move from dark (negative) to light (positive) emotions. For example:

• From tired to fired up
• From confused to confident
• From jealous to appreciative
• From loss to peace

To help teens understand, manage, and channel their emotions into passion for the life they want to live, this guided journal with a convenient lay-flat design includes 36 activities for creative self-expression. Crafted by community leaders across North America, these activities encourage teens to create, draw, listen to music, and put pen to paper as they process emotions, discover more about themselves, and pursue what they want out of life.

Using simple journal prompts and art project ideas, with plenty of room for writing and reflection, Dream Up Now is a powerful tool for navigating emotions and creative self-expression. A digital leadership guide includes information to help teens advocate for school music programs, find their passion, and start a club in their school.


Author: Rayne Lacko
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Published: 09/21/2020
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781631985492
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Rayne Lacko is a young adult author and an advocate for the arts as a form of social and emotional well-being. A teen-writing mentor, she cohosts a youth creative workshop, an annual writing camp, and a teen arts showcase. Through her work, she inspires young people and their families to use creativity to stimulate positive change in their lives and communities. Rayne lives near Seattle, Washington.

Lesley Holmes contributes her expertise to several educational and arts nonprofits benefitting children, teens, and older adults in and around Los Angeles. Her work promotes alternative therapies, music education, literacy, and food as a pathway to healing. Lesley lives in Los Angeles, CA.