Invite Sean Smith to Your Podcast

Where Trauma-Informed Care Meets Collaborative Storytelling

If your audience cares about healing, creativity, leadership, tabletop roleplaying games, or building emotionally safe spaces, I would love to join your show.

I am a licensed clinical social worker, creator of the Collaborative Storytelling Model, and founder of Resilience Quest Consulting & Counseling. My work lives at the intersection of trauma-informed care, narrative identity, and tabletop roleplaying games.

I help clinicians, educators, organizations, and gaming communities understand how story, agency, and collaboration shape growth.

Whether we are talking about therapy, systems change, emotional safety at the gaming table, or reclaiming authorship after trauma, the through line is this:

Stories matter.
Agency matters.
How we collaborate matters.

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Topics I Love to Explore

The Collaborative Storytelling Model (CSM)

• What it means to “hold the pen” in your own story
• How systems remove authorship and how to ethically restore it
• Agency, power, consent, and collaboration in therapy and leadership
• Why insight precedes behavior change
• How story functions as a mechanism of healing

The Collaborative Storytelling Model is a relational and systems-aware framework for understanding conflict, growth, and change through the lens of authorship and agency.

Trauma-Informed Roleplaying Games

• How tabletop roleplaying games can support regulation, attachment, and competency
• Emotional safety tools in gaming spaces
• The difference between trauma processing and trauma-informed play
• Why safety does not reduce immersion, it protects it
• How clinicians can ethically integrate TTRPGs into therapy

This work is reflected in my clinical manual, Trauma-Informed Roleplaying Games, designed to guide therapists in bringing structured, trauma-informed storytelling into group and individual care.

Emotional Safety in Gaming & Community Spaces

• What emotional safety actually means
• Why flexibility is strength, not weakness
• How to normalize pause, repair, and consent
• The balance between fun, intensity, and care
• Building sustainable creative communities

This is the heart behind The Adventurer’s Resilience Pack, a practical guide to keeping games fun, safe, and meaningful without sacrificing immersion.

Past & Ideal Podcast Themes

I am especially aligned with podcasts that focus on:

• Mental health innovation
• Trauma and resilience
• RPG culture and design
• Leadership and organizational change
• Creativity and identity
• Ethical facilitation and community building

If your audience is asking questions like:

Can tabletop role-playing games be therapeutic?
How do you create emotional safety in a gaming group?
How do I work with a table or players that I don’t agree with?
How can collaborative storytelling improve leadership or conflict resolution?

Then we will have a meaningful conversation.

What Listeners Walk Away With

Your audience will leave with:

• Clear language around trauma-informed practice
• Practical tools they can use immediately
• A deeper understanding of story and agency
• A reframing of gaming as a resilience-building space
• A grounded, ethical perspective on integrating creativity and healing

Booking Information

To invite me onto your podcast, please email:
sean@resiliencequestcc.com

You can also explore more at:
www.resiliencequestcc.com

Let’s help people hold the pen again.
Let’s build tables where connection comes first.