Logan
Logan Juliano, PhD (they/them)
Mindful Play Facilitator | Narrative Designer | Cultural Consultant
🌈🤝 Currently facilitating mindful play sessions and consulting on narrative design and sensitivity/cultural representation. 🤝🌈
About Me
I use role-playing and story games as tools for identity exploration, emotional processing, and community building. My masters and doctoral research centered on interactive identification--after which I supplemented with non-profit research on representation in international tv, commercials, movies, and games.
Now, in addition to teaching at UCLA, I use my powers for good: I create brave spaces and inclusive, empowering experiences to help deep thinkers play, playful folks get mindful, and everyone practice mutual care.
About "Mindful Play"
I see play as an ideal means to practice being in the moment. What do you say, do, feel, when experiencing a crit fail? Or, the solo player struggle, how do you get yourself to play in the first place? Can Corp-Borg be a way to teach business students project management skills, stakeholder communication, and blood sacrifice, like I told my department when they reimbursed the purchase? (I think so.)
I've written about this in academic contexts, but my Substack is a more accessible starting place:
- Interview with Jay Dragon on Trust and Safety
- Interview with Maria Mison on her multifaceted greatness
- Essay on solo journaling games, climate grief, and imagination
- Not-Self Help: Playing with Agency
Current Projects
- Creative Coalition: Monthly facilitated game sessions exploring identity through mindful play (discount codes are always in the latest newsletter)
- Light Hive: Thoughts twice-a-month on play and identity through a Buddhist framework
- Expanding my network: Say hi! I would love to know how you found me :)
Connect & Play
🎲 Join my monthly Creative Coalition sessions (discount codes and the means to access free-to-play links are always in the latest newsletter)
📝 Subscribe to Light Hive newsletter
