This year at PAX Unplugged, Game to Grow presented a panel called Roll for Healing: Therapeutic Game Master Round Table. We presented a similar panel at PAX West 2018 though this panel features some additional panelists who are using role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in other parts of the country. Enjoy! Panel […]
At PAX Unplugged, we presented a return of our panel Collaborative Homebrew 101: Cure for the Common Murder Hobo. We’d presented this at PAX East and PAX South, but this time the panel featured Scott Kurtz from Table Titans! Table Titans has been a fantastic support for Game to Grow, offering us table space at […]
We are honored to have been selected as a 2019 official charity partner for GenCon, the longest running tabletop convention in North America! We were chosen along with Special Olympics Indiana, and as part of this agreement, both organizations will receive proceeds from Gen Con’s 2019 fundraising efforts, including longstanding charity events such as […]
Game to Grow’s founders were on D&D Beyond discussing the use of Dungeons and Dragons in therapeutic groups, and how we use the game to help our participants grow. Also on the show were Dr. Megan Connell and Dr. Raffael Boccamazzo, who also have seen the benefits of games with their own participants. Enjoy! […]
2018 has been a great year! This year we provided game-based therapeutic services to around 40 kids each week across our five weekly social skills groups, and we hired and trained two new facilitators so that even more youth can receive services. Over the summer we offered game-based summer camps, incorporating craft and other enrichment activities, and led workshops instructing families […]
There are so many GREAT ways to support Game to Grow this holiday season! On Giving Tuesday, you can make a donation via Facebook Fundraisers, and Facebook will match the first seven million dollars of donations on a first-come-first-served basis. You can read more here. You can also earn $10 for Game to Grow by […]
Executive Director Adam Davis here. I recently learned that Facebook will match the first 7 million dollars of donations made on Tuesday, November 27th, up to $250,000 per organization! This is an amazing opportunity for Game to Grow to raise funds for continued expansion in 2019! That sounds amazing, but here’s the catch: It’s first-come, […]
We returned yesterday from Washington, DC., where we gave a plenary session at the ICDL conference called Critical Core: Role-Playing Games and the Future of Social-Skills Enrichment. We were very excited to present about Critical Core and our work using Dungeons and Dragons in therapeutic social skills groups. We shared the theory behind our model, […]
Next weekend we’ll be presenting at the ICDL conference in Washington, DC, about role-playing games for therapeutic growth and Critical Core, and the following Friday we’ll be presenting at the Pierce County Counselor’s Association in a 90 minute presentation titled “Dungeons, Dragons, and Social Development: Roleplaying Games as a Tool for Growth.” The meeting will be […]
We’ll be presenting a plenary session at the 2018 International DIRFloortime Conference in Washington, DC, titled Critical Core: Role-Playing Games and the Future of Social-Skills Enrichment. The conference will be Friday and Saturday, November 9 & 10, and attendees will be able to receive CEUs! Adam Davis and Adam Johns will be co-presenting with Virginia Spielmann, who […]