Creators

We co-created our initial draft, the Maintain your Brain Game, at a workshop funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The workshop brought together people with lived and living experience of cognitive impairment, Indigenous educators, South Asian educators, healthcare providers, and academic researchers.

Since then, we co-created the Maintaining Brains Game with a high school teacher and a national youth-serving organization, Actua. The Maintaining Brains Game is a youth-focused version in which players roleplay as healthcare providers, caring for their patient’s brain. This version acts on co-creator impetus from the 2025 workshop to incorporate trauma-informed principles of agency, strengths-based approaches, and safe environments.