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 […]
We received an email from Ben Collier, who had been inspired by our work using Dungeons and Dragons to help teens with autism diagnoses build social skills and reduce isolation. After hearing about our groups, he filmed a documentary short about a group in Buckinghamshire, England that shows the amazing power of role-playing games to […]
We had the pleasure of being on the Detentions and Dragons podcast, discussing our therapeutic Dungeons and Dragons groups with Matt Kuehl, one of the show’s hosts. We told some stories from our groups, a brief history of Game to Grow as an organization, and shared about Critical Core. Listen below, on the Detentions and […]
We’re so happy to be returning to PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia! We presented last year, and we’ll be heading back again for PAX Unplugged 2018. This will be our busiest convention yet, as we’re appearing on a total of SIX Panels! Here’s the breakdown: Friday, November 30th Play Well With Others: Conflict Resolution at the […]
This last Saturday, Game to Grow presented the afternoon keynote at the Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy 2018 Annual Conference! It was an amazing opportunity to share with a brand new audience the power and impact of intentional therapeutic gaming. The audience full of therapists were very receptive to the re-framing of Dungeons […]
We had the pleasure to return to the Psychology in Seattle Podcast to host a session of Dungeons and Dragons that looks similar to the way we facilitate the game in our weekly social skills groups. Adam Johns served as game master while Adam Davis played a character alongside Kirk Honda and Humberto Castañeda, the […]
We were invited to appear on the Acquisitions Incorporated CTeam, during the Table Talk portion of the stream, to talk about our work in our social skills groups using Dungeons and Dragons, as well as our work on the upcoming project Critical Core. The host, Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade, has long been an advocate […]
We’re so happy to announce that we were invited to be keynote speakers at the Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Conference this year! If you are interested in attending, you can learn more and register here. Registration includes 7 CEUs (up to 6 CEs of Ethics available), plus tea and coffee, and lunch! […]
At PAX West this year we invited several other “therapeutic game masters,” those who use Dungeons and Dragons or other role-playing game in some form of therapeutic practice, to participate in a round-table discussion about their work. Panelists included Game to Grow founders Adam Davis and Adam Johns, Megan Connell, and Raffael “Doctor B” Boccamazzo. […]
One of our panels at this year’s PAX West convention was about playing role-playing games, including Dungeons and Dragons, with kids. We were joined on this panel by Ethan “Mr. E.” Schoonover, who runs a D&D after school program at Lake Washington Girls Middle School While on the panel, we discuss several important topics when […]