Anecdotal Example Training Up New Pro Game Masters

one of the volunteers yeah Danielle she is going through the recreation therapy program Eastern Washington University she is a board gamer and card gamer and

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video gamers she never did role-playing gaming before her boyfriend hit but she never did she was jamming this summer at

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so first we went on retreat with the trailer the wheelchair friendly RPG trailer was real so we went to retreat

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and did an overall she and she had to GM for four hours for the first time and she played she ran floss caves offend

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elder yeah and it was in it in gpk she killed it

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all and but her first two hours she was very nervous we had to keep coaching her but it was a safe environment we're all

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there to help her yeah and after the first two hours she was flowing the roles were happening everybody was getting into it and yeah okay she had

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some lucky roles they had some bad ones they died no big deal nobody here was hurt by it because we're there to help her learn exactly yeah it's part of the

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yeah to learn how to do that too now she's been jamming at the cons when we've been at spoke on and and fan Nexus

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and others she's there out of the back of the trailer running groups and and she's running to doing

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games now and over and the lost eaves of Mirkwood for adventures in the earth and just working her way up and then at

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sparks Central now she's also running No thank you evil so here we were five years old and uh and she's been with us

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about nine months and she's already at that level sweet we have others who have

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been gaming for X number of years and are coming in or learning more of the therapeutic side through RPG education

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comm so okay our vision research is a non-profit then RPG therapeutics is the

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for-profit business this is the professional training you get training through volunteering and everything and

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we help you but it's a slower process you got to come to a meeting or two every week help us with our projects do

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a lot of grunt or if you want to come in and get certified make it all thing you guys that RPG therapeutics has formal

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training and certification you can either pay for the classes either in person and I'm not cheap or you can take

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the online courses that I've been slowly moving over 70/7 classes I have online and so the first ones launched this

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month we have PhDs psychiatrist and nursing person so we have somebody in

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Montreal Canada somebody in the UK UK guy wants to become our representative in the UK it's just blowing it's awesome

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it's all just it's just tip of the iceberg for all that yeah yes though well you guys we're also talking about

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and this is I just loved this idea of you know autism and and I feel a lot of