Build Your Life Journal

Video Series for Corrections

A Step-by-Step Guide for Supervisors

Supporting Participants with the Build Your Life Journal

This video series was created specifically for corrections supervisors and facilitators who are guiding participants through the Build Your Life Journal – a powerful mindset and manifestation tool designed to support rehabilitation, healing, and reentry preparation.

These short videos are not meant to be shown to participants. Instead, they provide supervisors with clear, step-by-step guidance on how to introduce journaling, facilitate reflection, and lead meaningful discussions using the D.R.E.A.M.S.™ Framework.

Each video features Julia Martin, co-founder of Dream Builders Academy, who walks supervisors through how to use each part of the journal to help participants build self-awareness, reframe limiting beliefs, and envision a positive future after release.

How to Use the Videos:

  1. Start with Video 1: Intro to Journaling & Manifestation
     Learn how to introduce the journal to your participants and explain its purpose. Julia walks you through the structure of the Daily Pages and how they support mindfulness, emotional regulation, and focus.

  2. Use Videos 2–4 to Guide the D.R.E.A.M.S.™ Framework
     Each video unpacks a section of the D.R.E.A.M.S. process and offers facilitation tips, discussion prompts, and real-life examples to help you guide participants effectively:

    • Video 2 – Declare & Reframe: Learn how to help participants define meaningful goals and shift self-limiting beliefs.

    • Video 3 – Envision: Understand how to lead visualization exercises and help participants imagine success after release.

    • Video 4 – Align, Move, Surrender: Support participants in taking small, aligned actions while building trust in the process of change.

  3. Conclude with the Closing Video: “You Are the Author of the Next Chapter.”
     This final video reminds supervisors of the deeper purpose behind the program – helping individuals see themselves as capable of growth, change, and contribution. It also highlights ways to celebrate progress and sustain journaling as an ongoing practice.

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    Intro to Journaling and Manifestation

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    D.R.E.A.M.S.™ FRAMEWORK: Declare and Reframe

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    D.R.E.A.M.S.™ FRAMEWORK: Envision

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    D.R.E.A.M.S.™ FRAMEWORK: Align, Move, and Surrender

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    Closing: You Are the Author of the Next Chapter

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    Guided "Future You" Visualization

    This guided visualization is designed to help participants imagine the life waiting for them beyond their current circumstances - a life filled with peace, purpose, and possibility.

    In this 10-minute exercise, listeners are guided through a sensory visualization of their first days after release, encouraging them to connect with feelings of freedom, gratitude, and hope.

    Through calming breathing and reflective imagery, participants are invited to picture their ideal day - where they live, who they’re with, what work they’re doing, and how it feels to be proud of the person they’re becoming. The experience concludes with a powerful encounter with their future self - a reminder that transformation is already in motion, and that every step forward matters.

    Key Themes:

    • Reconnecting with a sense of purpose and freedom

    • Visualizing life after release through all five senses

    • Meeting and receiving guidance from one’s future self

    • Cultivating gratitude, peace, and hope

    • Building belief in personal growth and change

    Length: Approximately 10 minutes


    Recommended Use:
    This visualization can be played in a quiet setting before journaling or reflection sessions. Encourage participants to close their eyes, listen deeply, and if they’re open to it, they can share about what they saw, felt, or heard afterward.

A Final Note to Supervisors…

The Build Your Life Journal was designed to help participants reconnect with their sense of self-worth, possibility, and purpose – but it’s the supervisors who bring that experience to life.

Your role is not just administrative – it’s transformational. Through your guidance, participants learn to slow down, reflect, and rebuild belief in their future.

Thank you for being part of this work and for helping others see that every moment is a chance to begin again.