“What do most Nobel Laureates, innovative entrepreneurs, artists and performers, well-adjusted children, happy couples and families, and the most successfully adapted mammals have in common? They play enthusiastically throughout their lives. --- What common denominator is shared by mass murderers, abused children, burnt-out employees, depressed mothers, caged animals, and chronically worried students? Play is rarely or never a part of their lives.” Dr. Stuart Brown, psychiatrist and director of the Institute of Play.
Playing games is fun, and helps people learn. But there is more. Playing games also taps into a fundamental aspect of our human nature. Game-playing is like a universal language - everyone, no matter what age, class, status, ability or disability, knows how to play.
Games can be used to explore everything from competition to co-operation, from careful strategic planning to trust in whatever comes next, from coping with fear to learning to listen, and just about everything in between.
But finding the right game to play is not always easy. Sure, there are books of games, games on websites - but these need to be read, noted and memorised if they are to be used.
The Group Games database allows the right game to be found to fit any need,
any criteria, without having to memorise it first. Click
here to find out more about how it
works.