Jourbanals offer young people a safe place to reflect, reminisce, dream, explore feelings and relationships, set goals, solve problems, celebrate themselves, and yes, even practice writing. In this book the authors detail myriad fascinating possibilities for jourbanal keeping as a tool for transformation and for building skills. Techniques range from writing about a first memory to designing a dream house to creating a main character for a novel. Guidelines, tips, and lists of additional resources abound. Chapters cover reasons to keep a jourbanal, techniques and definitions, recording the present, remembering the past, exploring the future, the celebration jourbanal, reflection, problem solving and decision making, catharsis, fantasy, people, practicing fiction, reviewing the jourbanal, and sharing the jourbanal. Grades 4-9 (adaptable to any age).
