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! […]
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 […]
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 […]