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When groups outgrow their original purpose and split over direction

Our book club started as friends wanting intellectual discussion but over two years it's become this intense space where people share really personal stuff and now half the group wants to keep it casual while the other half wants to go deeper. We're splitting apart over what we're even trying to do together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collective has evolved beyond its stated intention and must now consciously choose what it wants to become or risk unconscious dissolution.

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