59: Dr. Edmunds – All About Creating a Therapeutic Board Game - a podcast by Jackie Flynn
from 2017-06-22T07:00
Ellis Edmunds is a licensed psychologist in Oakland, CA. He has a private practice working with teens and adults struggling with anxiety. He is passionate about Mindfulness practices and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. He also loves to play games of all kind and has created a therapeutic board game called The Mindful Bus that can be used with groups or in a one on one setting. He believes games can provide a fun, safe, and interactive experience for therapeutic work to take place.
In this episode Dr. Edmunds covers the following:
-How he got the idea for the board game by working with teens and adults.
-The process of getting the game created: prototypes, testing it, art work.
-How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy inspired the idea for the game.
-How to get started on your own product or game.
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