Co-founder and CEO Proactively, Inc. Orlando, Florida, United States
Presentation Summary: Gameful design is a transformative approach that incorporates game mechanics and principles into non-gaming contexts to drive engagement, foster behavior change, and improve outcomes. This methodology has gained traction across industries, including education, corporate wellness, and healthcare, due to its ability to harness intrinsic and extrinsic motivation effectively. In Lifestyle Medicine, which emphasizes behavior-driven interventions to prevent, manage or even reverse chronic diseases, Gameful Design offers a powerful tool for creating sustainable health behavior changes.
During this session, participants will understand the principles of Gameful Design, understand its role in health behavior and corporate wellness, and learn strategies to leverage it in lifestyle medicine. The presentation will synthesize these insights and evidence-based practices empowering attendees to harness the transformative potential of Gameful Design in lifestyle medicine, ultimately enhancing patient engagement, promoting sustainable behavior change, and improving health outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the principles of Gameful Design: Explore the core principles and examine how these concepts have been successfully applied across various industries.
Analyze the role of Gameful Design in corporate wellness: Learn how it has been effectively utilized to drive behavior change, enhance engagement, and motivate individuals in corporate wellness.
Identify Strategies to Leverage Gameful Design in Lifestyle Medicine: Explore how its principles, including individualized goal-setting, team-based challenges, peer support, and community engagement, can be adapted from corporate wellness.
