Welcome to the online home of the Group Works cards, groupworksdeck.org.  Why is it that some meetings bring life to your soul, while others leave you wishing you'd never stepped in the room?  What happens at the best ones, that makes them productive, fulfilling, sometimes even magic? 

In some groups the social network is dense, in others thin; in some the relationships among members are strong and reliable, in others weak and fickle. Then there’s the matter of rules and boundaries. We belong to groups with many rules as well as to groups with few rules; in some the rules are strict, in others they are lax; and regardless of our desires, we aren’t always free to join a group or once a member, to leave it. At the same time group life because of its costs and benefits has for all of human history posed the most significant adaptive problems for the mind. Thus, in studying group processes we are in fact examining the forces that have shaped human psychology. Which, I think, is what makes this otherwise often dry, scholarly material exciting.