Over the last decade of experience, Game to Grow has seen just how powerful tabletop role-playing games can be as a support for young people, helping them build confidence, empowering success in group work, cultivating community, and enabling social flourishing. Who is Critical Core for? Do I have to be a therapist to use it?Ĭritical Core is for anyone who wants to support their community with a new and innovative intervention. The kit includes everything needed to get started, whether you are an expert player or someone new to the world of tabletop role-playing games. What’s included?Ĭritical Core is a kit featuring rule books, character sheets, maps and more! Players learn communication and collaboration skills, develop frustration tolerance and emotional resilience, and build empathy for others, all while rolling dice and having fun. Developed under the guidance of therapists and child psychiatrists and using the practices developed by Game to Grow’s founders Adam Davis and Adam Johns, the game invites children to enter a shared world of fantasy, consequence, and social problem solving.Ĭritical Core combines modern developmental therapies with the mechanics of tabletop role-playing games to help kids connect with their parents, their friends, and the world around them. Harness the therapeutic power of intentional gaming with Critical Core.Īfter a decade of using tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in therapeutic social skills groups, we are excited to announce a new product from Game to Grow: Critical Core! What is Critical Core?Ĭritical Core is a social-skills intervention in the form of a tabletop role playing game. Critical Core was successfully funded on Kickstarter!Ĭlick here to see the Kickstarter project!Ĭlick here to purchase a digital copy of Critical Core!

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