For years, Game to Grow has offered therapeutic social groups for youth using games. Our Dungeons and Dragons program has been recognized worldwide, and our expansions to include Minecraft and Magic: The Gathering have taken off. Now we are excited to announce the next expansion of our services to include individual counseling! Learn more about […]
Game to Grow’s game masters Adam Davis and Jared Kilmer were interviewed on the Opinions May Vary Podcast! We discuss many of the things going on with Game to Grow, including our therapeutic role-playing game groups using Dungeons and Dragons, our Minecraft groups, and our Magic: The Gathering groups. We also spoke briefly about some […]
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 […]
PAX South was a great success! Thank you to everyone who made it out who came by to say hello at our table, stopped us if you saw us around the convention, or attended one of the three panels on which Game to Grow staff were featured! Many people came to our table in PAX’s […]
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 […]