Table Top Role Playing Group Therapy

Service Description

This is a group that utilizes table top role playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons, to develop character, friendships, and a greater sense of purpose. Participants co-create an imagined world setting while each designs their own fictional character. The facilitator populates the world with meaningful challenges, interesting locales, and lively inhabitants for the players to interact with. using a combination of chance, decision making, and role play, players attempt to overcome the challenges they encounter and move the plot forward. Fantasy and science fiction, mythology, history, comics, anime, and pop culture... are all sources of inspiration here, as well as the themes & challenges they explore, such as transformation, trauma, hope, loss, spiritual power, magic, war... things we grapple with day to day. Navigating these themes through a character creates emotional distance and safety to explore one's identity, develop empathy, practice social skills, strengthen problem solving skills... Gives players a chance to think, feel, and act from another's perspective... explore idealized version or flawed version of self. Chaos and rigidity... Connection to self, other, and spirit is a channel for healing, and what better way to do so than through the things you love. This group is for people who want to take part in the creation and telling of their own epic adventures that are fun, challenging, and transformational within the safety of their home, imagination, and company of trusted individuals. Join a group this is a group for those who want to develop character, friendships, and a greater sense of purpose.