A Guided Adventure + Therapeutic Process Group for Young Adults (18–25)
Level Up: RPG Group Therapy for Young Adults
ALMOST THERE
We're screening interested group participants now! Stay tuned.
Your Journey Awaits...
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WHO's this for?
Young adults (18–25) who:
- Might feel lonely, disconnected, or unsure of themselves and wanna have fun
- Are struggling with direction, identity, or purpose
- Want a supportive community of peers
- No prior role play experience needed! If you enjoy creative expression or are open to trying it, this group is for you
- Are curious about personal growth but intimidated by traditional talk therapy
- Maybe are in treatment for challenges with anxiety, depression, ADHD, or social anxiety and looking to expand their supports
- This group will be capped at 4 participants, so please complete a contact form below to learn the next steps to secure your place!
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WHAT is this?
Through collaborative storytelling, character creation, and guided process work, participants explore identity, relationships, and purpose in ways that are both playful and meaningful.
GAIN
- Self-understanding
- Increased confidence with self expression
- New connections
- Clarity with identity
- Improved communication and relational skills
- A sense of belonging and shared journey
- Playful, meaningful experiences that translate into real‑life growth
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WHEN the group meets
- The group will meet weekly starting in April, and run in 8-week cycles
- Tentatively planning on Thursdays from 4:00–6:00 PM (MST), pending interest this may be flexible
- This will likely be held virtually via secure video platform, with in person option in Westminster if group members are closely located
- Group runs in 8‑week cycles
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HOW much to join in?
$40 / 2 hour session, or $300 if pay for the total 8 weeks upfront
This is a unique opportunity to receive support through engaging with an intimate group of like-minded peers, supported by two highly qualified professionals, Shannon and Seth, who each contribute a unique approach to foster healing and growth.
1. Role‑Playing Adventure
Guided by Zen teacher Seth Dennis, participants enter a collaborative narrative journey using Seth’s streamlined, creativity‑forward spin on D&D. The system is designed to promote imagination, character exploration, and meaningful interaction—while still keeping the fun element of chance from rolling dice.
Seth will transport you to a fantasy spirit world filled with mystical wonders and horrific evils alike and torment you with nuanced moral choices.
Participants create a character—an “adventurer”—who embodies qualities they want to explore, strengthen, or understand.
2. Therapeutic Process Work
Relationship therapist Shannon Martin, MFTC facilitates the process portion of the group, drawing from the themes, choices, and emotional moments that emerge during the adventure. During the adventure, she’ll chime in at times being in character herself. When the journey reaches a momentary stopping point, she’ll draw everyone back to earth and tend to real time interactions and experiences as ourselves.
About Seth Dennis, Group Co-Facilitator
Zen Master Seth Kongo Dennis, will join us virtually from Mineral Wells, Texas. He received his Bachelors in Religious Studies from Naropa University and was transmitted by Dr. John Shoji Sorenson Roshi in the Matsuoka Soto lineage. He's an assistant koan teacher study in the Open Mind Zen Lineage and has spent nearly a decade serving as a chaplain in a maximum-level trauma hospital, offering presence and compassion in some of life’s most intense moments.
These days, he’s turned his attention to a quieter kind of care — volunteering to help nurse injured bats back to health at a local bat sanctuary. He’s working on publishing a book related to his chaplain experiences. If you’d like to connect with Seth further, you can through my Contact page. This group is open to people of all beliefs, spiritualities, religions, and identities - his background lends itself to create morally complex challenges drawing from a vast range of cultural and religious traditions, which he adapts in a way we can engage with collectively in fantasy role-play.
