We're on a mission to create fun, healthy alternatives to screen time for kids and teens. For our podcast, we seek out community organizers, organizations, educators and extraordinary parents to talk to about offline activities.
Worldbuilding {Live} is a bi-weekly meetup with Mastermind Adventures' Professional Dungeon Masters and the community to create a world together for tabletop roleplay. Each 5 week session, the team will pool resources and ideas to realize an immersive world for storytelling, facilitating games or to be used as a springboard for further innovation. Join the Discord at https://discord.gg/Z75Q9fz to join us live Monday evenings. Visit www.mastermindadventures.com for more information about our services, or email info@mastermindadventures.com for inquiries.
Tabletop Role Playing Games are a great way to connect with kids and teens, whether you want to play a game as a family or use a game to connect with students or other children in your life. In this discussion with Sen-Foong Lim, Evan Colbert, Ally Sulentic and Roger Dupuy, we talk about what makes a great game for kids, effective engagement and more! Campfire
What makes a great character in a tabletop role playing game? How do you make something truly memorable and interesting? Whether you are someone who likes to facilitate tabletop RPGs or a player, making a good character is essential to the game, since it is our characters that interact with the world around us. In this discussion, Jon talks with other play enthusiasts about these questions and so much more. Campfire
This episode, we talked about encounter building. We used this time as a workshop/brainstorming session/hangout space about building cool encounters with different approaches for different types of players. Campfire
Worldbuilding {Live} is a bi-weekly meetup with Mastermind Adventures' Professional Dungeon Masters and the community to create a world together for tabletop roleplay. Each 5 week session, the team will pool resources and ideas to realize an immersive world for storytelling, facilitating games or to be used as a springboard for further innovation. Join the Discord at https://discord.gg/Z75Q9fz to join us live Monday evenings. Visit www.mastermindadventures.com for more information about our services, or email info@mastermindadventures.com for inquiries.
Worldbuilding {Live} is a bi-weekly meetup with Mastermind Adventures' Professional Dungeon Masters and the community to create a world together for tabletop roleplay. Each 5 week session, the team will pool resources and ideas to realize an immersive world for storytelling, facilitating games or to be used as a springboard for further innovation. Join the Discord at https://discord.gg/Z75Q9fz to join us live Monday evenings. Visit www.mastermindadventures.com for more information about our services, or email info@mastermindadventures.com for inquiries.
Worldbuilding {Live} is a bi-weekly meetup with Mastermind Adventures' Professional Dungeon Masters and the community to create a world together for tabletop roleplay. Each 5 week session, the team will pool resources and ideas to realize an immersive world for storytelling, facilitating games or to be used as a springboard for further innovation. Join the Discord at https://discord.gg/Z75Q9fz to join us live Monday evenings. Visit www.mastermindadventures.com for more information about our services, or email info@mastermindadventures.com for inquiries.
Worldbuilding {Live} is a bi-weekly meetup with Mastermind Adventures' Professional Dungeon Masters and the community to create a world together for tabletop roleplay. Each 5 week session, the team will pool resources and ideas to realize an immersive world for storytelling, facilitating games or to be used as a springboard for further innovation. Join the Discord at https://discord.gg/Z75Q9fz to join us live Monday evenings. Visit www.mastermindadventures.com for more information about our services, or email info@mastermindadventures.com for inquiries.
This episode, we talked about villains in tabletop roleplay campaigns. What makes a good villain? How do they contribute to the story? What kind of impact do they have? Campfire
45% of gamers are women. In celebration of Women's History Month, we facilitated this discussion, we talk with Kelly Tran, Rebecca Hausman, Ally Sulentic and Krysten Callina about their favorite games, favorite moments and awesome experiences. Campfire
You know those moments where the world seems to crack open and you never see things the same way again? This happened to me a couple of years ago when I was getting my haircut and it changed my mindset and brought clarity to my life.
It happens to almost ALL of us. The self consciousness of being new to something and appearing silly or just not good enough. There are so many ugly little voices that rear our heads telling us that we can’t do something or that we are too late, too different or too inexperienced. Read more at https://www.mastermindadventures.com/2021/03/17/imposter-syndrome/
2020 was a crazy year for all of us, it really made me rethink what I really need in my life and what brings me the most joy. I paired back lots of things. As a mom, wife and entrepreneur, I wear many hats. In this episode, I talk about my non-negotiables: the things I can't do without.
Today, I’ll be talking about values. Values tell you so much about a person and I want to tell you more about some things that are most important to us, the things that make us tick. And I want to tell you about how we are designing our services to embody these values.
I’ll be talking about why we started our Game Master for Hire initiative and some of the major frustrations I see when on the group message boards. If you've ever asked the question: "When someone calls themselves a professional Game Master, what does that mean?" this video is for you! Quick Links: Who we are: 0:15 The history of Pro GMs 1:50 Why choose a Pro GM? 2:55 3 Reasons we're different 4:30 How we can help 6:08 WHAT NEXT? Check out our Game Masters https://www.mastermindadventures.com/adults/ Book a Consultation https://meetings.hubspot.com/krysten Join our Discord Community https://discord.gg/9cCQUrQ
In this podcast, Krysten Callina, founder of Mastermind Adventures, shares lessons she has learned reflecting on her first attempt at creating a living adventure game, figuring out what's most important, and the pathway forward.
In this LIVE Facebook event, for the Let's Play community, you will meet Sunny Moriello Flatts, author, poet, youth worker and and expert in unstructured play and how to draw out the best creativity in kids and teens to help them have the best experience. She formerly created a business called Soul Happy Living for young children. She is currently working on a book that investigates the experience of being a white mother raising a black daughter in the modern culture in which we live. This is a deep dive into unstructured play and how to facilitate it with your own kids. Join us at http://bit.ly/maletsplay Find Sunny on Instagram @sunnymorielloflatts, on Facebook at /sunnymorielloflattspoet and soon on her website at http://www.sunnymorielloflatts.com
In this LIVE Facebook event, for the Let's Play community, you will meet Keith West, educator and debate coach at Boston Latin School and founder of Dragon's Haven, a live action summer camp for tweens and teens in Spencer, Massachusetts and Keith's curriculum director, Ariel Bruni, a classroom teacher, camp counselor and head storyteller. We discuss the benefits of interactive theater programs for kids, extrinsic vs intrinsic motivators in this kind of programming and what to look for in a great summer camp. Join the community at bit.ly/maletsplay to participate in the conversation. More info at www.dragonshaven.org or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DragonsHavenSummerCamp/
Encouraging kids to explore the outdoors can sometimes be an uphill battle. Lucia Colombaro, Co- founder of the New England Base Camp Homeschool Cooperative encourages exploration of nature, STEM, and learning survival skills through her programs in the woods at the Blue Hills in Milton, MA. We’ll talk about her approach to learning, her inspiration and about how to foster a love of nature in our own kids. Join the community at http://bit.ly/maletsplay
Jennifer Havens Romanat is an award winning singer songwriter of imaginative children's music, a mom, a teacher and a performer. We'll talk about her story, her inspiration and how to encourage musical exploration in children. Learn more about Jennifer on her Facebook page here >> https://www.facebook.com/JenniferHavensRomanat/ or listen to her music on SoundCloud here >> https://soundcloud.com/jenhavensromanat Join the community at http://bit.ly/maletsplay
Mike Mahoney is the Executive Director at the First Fed/Stoico YMCA in Swansea and knows all about kids recreation and how to get kids excited and motivated to jump in! We’ll talk about what he looks for in a good recreation program and building a solid community. Join the community at http://bit.ly/maletsplay Show notes available at http://www.mastermindadventures.com/2018/07/lets-play/
Today I'm interviewing award winning educator, coach, dad and foster parent, Lloyd Lamarre! We talk about how education has changed over the last 20 years, and his approach to keeping kids engaged in the classroom as well as strategies that help him keep his own kids balanced. Lloyd is teaching two classes for us in August, an Armor Building Workshop and a Young Inventor's Workshop. You can find the listings here http://www.mastermindadventures.com/educational-adventures/
In this episode, I'm talking with Katia Greene, director, singer, actor, makeup artist and more! Katia has worked with children in the theater programs for over 20 years and is now directing an all-teen cast in The Uncommon Theatre's production of Disaster! The Musical, July 19-22 at the Orpheum Theater in Foxboro, MA. Tickets available at http://uncommontheatre.org/tickets. This fall, she will continue to direct the stage musical, Legally Blonde with the Uncommon Theatre. We talk about how to direct a dramatic child's energy into something positive and fun, theater arts!
You can view the show notes and resource links at http://bit.ly/flamarre. Join us each week at 12 PM on our FREE Facebook group to join in the discussion at http://bit.ly/maletsplay In this week’s episode I talk with Fitz Lamarre, educator, dad and founder of Creative Oasis: Destination Painting for adults and Mobile Art sessions for kids. This episode is full of really great tips on how to get your kids to tap in to his or her creativity! Mastermind Adventures Related Programs Portraits with Fitz! http://www.mastermindadventures.com/educational-adventures/
You can view the show notes and resource links at http://bit.ly/Mstanger . Join us each week at 12 PM on our FREE Facebook group to join in the discussion at http://bit.ly/maletsplay In this week’s episode, I chat with Martianne Stanger, author of the Training Happy Hearts blog, certified educator, homeschooler and theater instructor. Martianne’s resourcefulness has helped her create the communities that her children need as they have grown. She gives great tips on how to create community for your own family with a focus on outdoor play. Mastermind Adventures related links - - Monthly Adventure Program http://www.mastermindadventures.com/2018/03/adventure-programs/ - Weekly Duct Tape Weapon Building (Hero's Guild) https://placefull.com/hero-s-guild-crafting-club
You can find the full show notes at http://bit.ly/EvansBoredomBusters or join the conversation online each week on Mondays at 12 PM on our FREE Facebook community at http://bit.ly/maletsplay In this week’s episode, I chat with Evan Colbert, therapist and contributor to our Quest! Therapeutic Tabletop Adventure Game for social skill development and the Hero’s Saga a Therapeutic Live Action Adventure Program for teens. Evan has over 19 years of experience in the field and specializes in trauma-informed crisis intervention and stabilization.Evan has a private practice in Fall River, Massachusetts and is a husband and dad. This episode is full of really useful information about ages and stages of kids and best practices to battle boredom for parents. Mastermind Adventures Related Programs: Quest! Therapeutic Tabletop Adventure -http://www.mastermindadventures.com/questadventuregame/ Monthly Saturday Adventure Programs - http://www.mastermindadventures.com/questadventuregame/
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