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Board Games as Divination Tools
Sunday July 19, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Ravinia C
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to use board games for divination. Attendees will learn how to harness liminality (immersion), symbolic correspondence (becoming a character), and procedural rhetoric (exploration via rules) to build divinatory narratives through guided play.
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James 'Pigeon' Fielder

James "Pigeon" Fielder, Ph.D. is a Colorado State University political scientist and Cherry Hill Seminary professor who researches emergent political behavior through tabletop, live-action, and digital gaming as natural experiments. He also has almost three decades of experience designing... Read More →
Sunday July 19, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Ravinia C
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  • Take aways: Attendees will learn how to use their own collection of games as a rich, fertile realm for self-discovery.

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