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Board Game Therapy™ is a developing, practice-derived facilitation framework that uses deliberately selected tabletop mechanics, embedded facilitation, and structured debriefing to create opportunities for connection and skill development. Playing a board game does not automatically make an activity therapy.
Preferred public claim: BGT™ creates structured opportunities to practice and observe interpersonal behaviors through shared play.
Board Game Therapy™ is not inherently psychotherapy. Its use depends on the facilitator, scope, setting, and purpose. Licensed clinicians may integrate structured play into an existing treatment relationship; Host and Coach applications remain nonclinical.
Never convert an ordinary community or coaching activity into “therapy” through marketing language. Playing a board game does not automatically make an activity therapy.
TABLE guides the facilitator through planning, leading, and extending the experience. It is the facilitator sequence for Board Game Therapy™.
Host (Leaders & Facilitators), Coach, and Therapist share one method with different bounds across three application scopes.
Adjacent research on connection, play, and group process may inform the work. BGT-specific outcomes require formal evaluation. Early pilots, when they exist, are program development, not proof of efficacy. We have not published a completed public cohort on this site.
