This panel brings together game designers and therapists in order to explore the potential of playing as well as designing games for self-inquiry, reflection and therapeutic purposes. Games enable embodied experiences and have thus gained a reputation as powerful learning tools. They can teach us something about ourselves as well as what it’s like to walk in somebody else’s shoes, thus increasing empathy, understanding, and personal growth. Playful engagement with personal conflicts through games and their design can lead to new insights, opening up new perspectives, point towards opportunities for change, increase psychological agency and have transformational power. This panel explores different purposes of and approaches to games and game design from therapeutic perspectives, including an inquiry of game design as a new modality within creative arts therapies.
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