{"id":3243629,"date":"2016-09-29T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3243629"},"modified":"2016-09-29T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:01:14","slug":"lunchbox-interview-matt-maclean-unb-mental-health-strategistboard-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-matt-maclean-unb-mental-health-strategistboard-games","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox Interview: Matt MacLean (UNB Mental Health Strategist\/Board Games)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3243634\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-matt-maclean-unb-mental-health-strategistboard-games\/attachment\/lunchbox-2016mattmaclean2\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2.png\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lunchbox-2016mattmaclean2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2-800x800.png\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3243634\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2-300x300.png\" alt=\"lunchbox-2016mattmaclean2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2-100x100.png 100w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2-800x800.png 800w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes, life can be learned by playing a game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My guest today is <strong>Matt MacLean<\/strong>, the UNB Mental Health Strategist. He&#8217;s offering a different choice to reach out to students for socialization and engagement: board games. It&#8217;s also a clear passion of his. We talked about the nature of games, his favourite games, and what games can do for students (and non-students).<\/p>\n<p>You can join Matt for board games every Thursday night at 5pm at the Milham Room at the Harriet Irving Library.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7949\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7949','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3243629-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is Matt MacLean, UNB Mental Health Strategist. He hosts a regular board game night every Thursday night at 5pm at the UNB Harriet Irving Library.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7950\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7950','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3243629-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20160922%20-%20Interview%20-%20Matt%20MacLean%20-%20UNB%20Mental%20Health%20Strategist%20-%20Board%20Games%20-%20INTERVIEW%20EXTRACTED.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/lunchbox-interview-matt-maclean-unb-mental-health-strategistboard-games\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3243634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2875,1890,710],"class_list":["post-3243629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-board-games","tag-games","tag-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LunchBox-2016MattMacLean2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243635,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243629\/revisions\/3243635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}