Living the Dream: Larp as a Transformative Practice
Larp extends beyond wistful thinking and idle daydreams and starts the process of turning ideas into a physical manifestation.
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Magic is Real: How Role-playing Can Transform Our Identities, Our Communities, and Our Lives
What is magic? From our perspective, at its core, magic is a form of manifestation: the ability to alter the self and the world around us through the power of intentional thought, force of will, and creative action.[1]Mat Auryn, Psychic…
Transformative Role-Play: Design, Implementation, and Integration
A framework for how to design, organize, and play intentionally for transformative impacts throughout the role-play experience and beyond.
The Butterfly Effect Manifesto
This manifesto describes our preference for playing, designing, and facilitating larp experiences with the purpose of encouraging transformative impacts.
Let’s Play with Fire! Using Risk and its Power for Personal Transformation
A current trend in larping focuses on extensive safety and consent techniques protecting the participants from harm. Yet people participate in, enjoy, and are profoundly transformed by risky experiences. There are potentially immense personal benefits within a designed experience that…