Our Mission

Learn Larp, LLC is an educational consulting and game design company focused on the power of role-playing games as co-created participatory experiences that build empathy, collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking and awareness. We are founded in the tradition of European larp companies that use larp in basic, secondary and higher education to meet content and soft-skills-related learning objectives, and to help communities deal with complex social, political, and environmental issues.

Learn Larp’s mission is to create high production value live-action role-playing experiences that are safe, fun, empowering, and unforgettable.

We believe in larp’s potential to:

• broaden perspectives
• promote critical thinking and problem-solving
• cultivate empathy
• invigorate the imagination
• provide a safe space to create and innovate
• empower participants to take risks and see consequences of choices
• create kinesthetic, affective, and cognitive connections
• foster community-building, collaboration, and teamwork
• make learning fun and memorable
• build cultures of empowered individuals working toward a common goal
• serve as model for powerful pedagogy and
• change hearts and minds in meaningful ways.

Our vision is to demonstrate larp’s potential to foster personal growth, pedagogical effectiveness, and social change.

We do this by:

• maintaining an open and inclusive game design and community
• giving agency to players, allowing them to experience real-time consequences of their actions
• offering immersive game experiences that encourage collaboration and cooperation vs. a zero-sum win condition
• incorporating cutting-edge social and cognitive research
• designing games around complex and thought-provoking social conflicts and ethical dilemmas and encouraging players to safely explore them through role-play
• creating game mechanics that privilege innovation and value contributions from all participants
• prioritizing the player’s experience and creating an environment of safety, value and freedom
• partnering with educational institutions to teach larp design as instructional design
• collaborating with teachers to create larp learning experiences in classrooms that meet cognitive, kinesthetic and affective learning outcomes
• working with corporate partners to use role-playing simulations for training, team building, and greater synergy.