Safeguarding Tabletop Gaming Spaces: An online workshop
Are you interested in promoting safe and inclusive gaming communities?
We know gaming can have many benefits for participants, and gaming spaces are often safe spaces for neurodivergent people, the LGBTQ+ community, and people with mental health issues. It is also a set of spaces where intergenerational friendships can develop. Many people build new and lasting friendships as owners and volunteers in gaming spaces intentionally seek to develop the community.
However with these benefits come unique risks including the potential for malicious actors to have access to gaming spaces, predatory trading practices with card games, and ‘rage quitting’ or ‘salty’ players.
This workshop will help you to reflect on your own gaming context, which could be a volunteer-run club through to the owner of a chain of game shops. It will particularly help you highlight safeguarding risks, while working together to find actions to reduce some of those risks that you can begin implementing straight away to promote the safety and wellbeing of your gamers.
