Adam D. Davis

Adam Davis is a professional therapeutic game master and educator with over 15 years of experience designing and facilitating tabletop role-playing games that build community, resilience, connection, and joy. In 2017, he cofounded Game to Grow, a nonprofit that grew to serve more than 150 youth weekly and trained thousands of practitioners across six continents to use RPGs in classrooms, clinics, hospitals, and libraries.

Adam now serves as a Games and Play Program Developer at foundry10, where he designs youth- and educator-facing initiatives exploring how games support engagement, well-being, and learning in schools and community spaces.

He is the co-author of Therapeutically Applied Tabletop Role Playing Games: The Game to Grow Method and co-creator of Critical Core, a therapeutic RPG used by more than 7,000 educators, therapists, and families worldwide. Adam has presented more than 70 times at over 30 conferences—including a keynote for the Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy—and his work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, TIME, National Geographic, and Forbes.