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 […]
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’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 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 received an email that we’ll be returning to present at our fourth PAX West, and our TENTH PAX overall! We’re excited to be back to our home PAX in Seattle. We’ll be hosting two panels this year, with some great panelists! Details below: Release the Minions! Introducing RPGs to Youth Friday, August 31st at […]
You can now support Game to Grow through making your normal purchases through Amazon.com! Use the following link: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/82-1306872 Amazon will pass on a percentage of their proceeds to Game to Grow! You can also make the choice by going to smile.amazon.com and selecting Game to Grow from the list of registered charities. Thanks for […]
We received a fantastically generous donation from Mike Shea, known on the internet as Sly Flourish, which will enable us to provide D&D Beyond for the participants in all five of our Dungeons and Dragons therapeutic social skills groups! Mike Shea, author of the well-respected Lazy Dungeon Master’s Guide, runs the blog Sly Flourish: Building […]
We just received word this weekend that we’ve been given 501(c)(3) status! We’ve been looking forward to this day since we formed in April of last year. Game to Grow is now officially recognized for the community-enriching and therapeutic work we do with games of all kinds, and now we’re looking forward to all we […]