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Deep Conversations, Playing Games, and Mental Health

In Games for Seva, mentors, peers, and friends are able to play games such as Dharma Dilemmas and Vice2Virtue, in which they are prompted to use metacognition: they must truly reflect upon their thinking in order to draw connections within and between complex topics. An example card is “Freedom from Delusion” which is a broad topic. The players must define this, and there must be overlap in these definitions in order for the game to work. Already, deep involvement through thoughts is present, but perhaps not at the conversational level yet. The next step involves players pondering their own set of cards in regards to the topic at hand.