Hey deserving listeners, this is the 12th installment of the Dungeons and Dragons therapy

episode thing that we've been doing. And if you're listening to this without the video,

then know that you can go to YouTube and you can actually see us in

full Brady Bunch form with our facial expressions, playing Dungeons and Dragons.

I've been told that Adam Davis and Umberto

makes some very important critical facial expressions

throughout that really cannot be missed.

So go to face, go to YouTube and watch those facial expressions or just

listen because it's also fine to just listen to the audio. All right, so for those who don't know, and this might be the first time,

we've been doing, we've been demonstrating,

Adam Johns has been demonstrating for us

what it looks like to use Dungeons and Dragons in a therapeutic context or in a community

building context. Usually, Dungeons and Dragons is for, it's just, it's quote-unquote, just a game that's used in various different ways, but one of the ways that it can be used is in therapy group therapy and in community building in a very intentional way.

There's a lot of different ways to play it. Adam Johns. community building in a very intentional way.

There's a lot of different ways to play it.

Adam Johns is demonstrating how to do it

in a way that for me as a player,

for Amberto as a player, and Adam Davis as a player,

for us to have an opportunity to grow as people to

explore our identity to gain self-esteem through connection with our with you

know each other but with the veil of a avatar that we control that is a little

bit separate from us and gives us perhaps a little bit more courage and freedom to play around with that is safer for example.

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