I’m excited to be returning to California this week to be a featured panelist at GameSchoolCon! GameSchoolCon is a local con in Irvine, California dedicated to the concept of “Gameschooling,” a practice very close to Game to Grow’s mission: We can learn more when we’re fully engaged, and we can be more fully engaged when […]
We were invited to speak at the Renton History Museum about our work using role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in our social skills groups. Renton History Museum is opening an exhibit today called “Hero’s Feast: Finding Community through Dungeons and Dragons.” As part of the installation, we’ll be giving a 1 hour presentation on […]
A recent Washington Post article, How Dungeons and Dragons Somehow Became More Popular than Ever, explores the sudden resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games in popular culture. Adam Johns and I have been using role-playing games for eight years to help kids build social skills, and have seen so much change in that […]
We’ll be in Boston at PAX East from March 28 to April 1st! We’ll have table space again thanks to our friends at Table Titans, so please come visit us at table 12090! Come talk about our mission, learn about our groups in the Seattle area that use role-playing games to help kids and teens […]
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 […]
We were recently interviewed on the Humans of Gaming Podcast, where Adam Johns and I talked about our personal experience with games, and the work we do using role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons to help our participants who are struggling with social isolation. You can listen to the episode at the Love Thy […]
Founders Adam Davis and Adam Johns returned to the Board Game Alliance Podcast, recorded at the KISW station here in Seattle. They shared some stories about Game to Grow’s use of role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in therapeutic social skills groups! You can listen to the episode at the Board Game Alliance website or on iTunes. Game […]
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 […]