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 […]
This year at PAX Unplugged, Game to Grow presented a panel called Roll for Healing: Therapeutic Game Master Round Table. We presented a similar panel at PAX West 2018 though this panel features some additional panelists who are using role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in other parts of the country. Enjoy! Panel […]
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 […]