Game to Grow’s founders were invited on the Mental Health & Socializing Distantly Roundtable to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and some recommendations for how individuals can respond to the evolving corona virus situation. Check out the video below!
I was invited to join Marian McBrine, Megan Culver, and Cyra Benedict on GenCon’s Twitch stream, moderated by Lauren Bond, to discuss the educational use of games. We discussed academic outcomes, how games can support math, literacy, and geography education, as well as how games can support the development of social skills and other 21st […]
Just because we’re socially distancing doesn’t mean we can’t still connect meaningfully over our favorite RPG! This is a more important time than ever to share stories and laughter with friends, and online role-playing games may just be the perfect antidote to the isolation and loneliness so many of us experience. This webinar, the first […]
We’ve received some great feedback after previous webinars that you want to ask us mo re in-depth questions about running successful tabletop roleplaying games with children and adolescents. Enter our Ask the Experts series! This series will allow us to answer your in-depth questions in real time. Sessions in the Ask the Experts series will […]
We had a fantastic PAX West! We had a table again, thanks to Table Titans, and we were happy with the positive response to our Pinny Pin and Life Cog. Our panel, Roll for Healing: Therapuetic Game Master Round Table, was filmed! The panel features Game to Grow’s executive director Adam Johns, Tacoma-based Game to […]
Last weekend at Emerald City Comicon we presented two panels. In the panel on Friday, titled Future Possible, we spoke about how RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons have the power to make the world a better place. Ethan Schoonover joined Adam Davis and Adam Johns on the panel. Our second panel, Dungeons, Dragons, and Social […]
We were interviewed by Air and Leap of the Insight Check Podcast! We had a great time talking about the work we do with RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons and our upcoming Kickstarter project Critical Core! Listen on Podbean or iTunes. Enjoy! Interested in learning more about our work? Check out the What We […]
At PAX South this year, we presented a panel we’ve hosted at other conventions called Therapeutic Game Master Round Table. Each time we host this panel we aim to highlight some of the leading minds in applied RPGs, with a special focus on someone local or semi-local to the area. This year we had the […]
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 […]
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! […]