Even before starting Wheelhouse Workshop in 2013, we spoke about the therapeutic application of role-playing games around the web.
Articles and Press
RPG Therapy for Kids is a Real Thing, and It Works via Geek & Sundry
Therapists Are Using Dungeons & Dragons To Get Kids To Open Up via Kotaku
Dungeons & Dragons is Now Being Used as Therapy via BBC
How Moral Panics Can Turn Into Therapeutic Tools: The Dungeons And Dragons Edition via techdirt
Este Juego de Rol se ha Convertido en una Terapia para Jóvenes con Problemas Sociales via Playground (translate from Spanish)
Donjons et dragons comme thérapie? via le Journal de Montreal (translate from French)
Therapists use Dungeons & Dragons to help kids open up via Inquirer.net
Dungeons of the Mind: Tabletop RPGs as Social Therapy via KillScreen
Wheelhouse Workshop turns Tabletop Gaming into Social Development via d-Infinity
AUS Alumni’s Wheelhouse Workshop Celebrated in Multiple News Stories via Antioch University Seattle
Wheelhouse Workshop Launches Third Social Skills Group Using Role-Playing Games for Seattle Youth via prweb
Wheelhouse Workshop to help teens develop social skills through role-playing games via Phinneywood
Wheelhouse Workshop hosting weekly groups to help teens and adolescents build social confidence via Phinneywood
Podcasts
The Past The Past, Present, and Future of Therapeutic Role-Playing Games (Wheelhouse Workshop at PAX East 2017) via Geek Therapy
Ego Check with the IdDM via The IdDM
How to Become a Therapeutic Game Master via Geek Therapy
How to Be a Therapeutic Game Master via Rolling for Change
Dungeons and Dragons Therapy via Psychology in Seattle Podcast
Videos
The Past, Present, and Future of Therapeutic Role-Playing Games
PAX East 2017
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX South 2016
Please Don’t Punch the GM: Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX Prime 2015
Game to Grow Webisode Project
Full List of Appearances
We have led workshops and panels around the country about the therapeutic applications of role-playing games, not all of which were recorded.
2017
–March–
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX East 2017
Boston, MA
Accessibility in Tabletop Games and RPGs
Emerald City Comicon
Seattle, WA
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
Emerald City Comicon
Seattle, WA
–January–
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX South 2017
San Antonio, TX
2016
–October–
Dungeons and Dragons and Drama Therapy: Role-playing games as therapeutic intervention
North American Drama Therapy Association 2016
Seattle, WA
–August–
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX West 2016
Seattle, WA
–April–
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
Emerald City Comicon 2016
Seattle, WA
–January–
Please Don’t Punch the GM: More Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX South 2016
San Antonio, TX
2015
–October–
+1 to Social Skills: How the Games we Love Can Make Us Better People
OrcaCon 2015
Everett, WA
–September–
Save Against Fear 2015
Harrisburg, PA
–August–
Please Don’t Punch the DM: Adventures in Gaming Therapy
PAX Prime 2015
Seattle, WA
–July–
Theater of the Mind: Role Playing Games as Sit-Down Drama Therapy
Antioch University Seattle
Seattle, WA
–March–
Geeky Games for Growth – Tabletop Roleplaying and Minecraft as Therapy
Emerald City Comicon 2015
Seattle, WA