Logan from Light Hive
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 being a full-time educator teaching classes like Game Writing 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? How do you get yourself to play in the first place?
This may be blasphemy on Itch.io, but I believe the game is the gathering device. The practice of engaged mindfulness is the point. How do we create together?
I've written about this in academic contexts, like my thesis on World of Warcraft or my dissertation that included analyses of nordic LARP structures, but my Substack is a more accessible starting place:
- Mindful the Gathering: A View on Play and Shameless Blood-Letting
- Skillful Action: How to Meditate in Life and Play
- Play as Concentration Practice
- 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 Stack: 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
