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Exercise description

The participants are split into two groups of seven people and they work in separate spaces. Two or three people are observers in each group (depending on the total number of participants). Slowly and clearly read the story about the context for the exercise, at least twice.

Story:

“You are two rival humanitarian organisations working with children. Both your organisations currently work on multiple important projects planned for the upcoming two years (one of the main projects is procurement of aids for children with disabilities). One officer from each of the two organisations has been arrested for using the privileges given to humanitarian organisations for personal gain (evasion of customs taxes). Importing technical equipment was at issue. All the other employees (all of you) knew about this but turned a blind eye. The public prosecutor suspects that the two officers cooperated in these illegal activities.

You are faced with the question: Is your organisation guilty as a whole?

The group votes by secret ballot and the decision is made by simple majority vote.”

The two groups then go work in separate spaces. It is important that they are in different room so that they cannot overhear each other.

It is explained to each group that the outcome of the vote on whether they are guilty as an organisation will have different illustrates the different outcomes:

Possible voting outcomes:

• If both organisations admit their guilt, they will be banned from working for 7 months.
• If both organisations deny their guilt, they will be banned from working for two months.
• If one organisation admits to being guilty, but the other does not, the organisation that admitted its guilt will be banned from working for one month, and the organisation that did not will be banned from working for 10 months.

You can download the voting outcomes chart suitable for printing on A4 paper

Voting plan:

1st round: Everyone receives a ballot paper to enter their vote (“Guilty” or “Not Guilty”). Everyone votes individually, without consultations within the group. The trainer delivers the verdict based on the results of the vote on both groups (to each group) and the corresponding punishment, as well as specifically how the other group voted. She writes this on the chart on the flipchart paper.

Example chart for recording the votes:

Each group receives a copy of the chart.

2nd round: Voting takes place again without prior consultation and the results are given to both groups. Only then does each group get five minutes to confer and nominate a negotiator to go negotiate with the other group. After negotiations, they again have a short time (two minutes or so) to confer within the group and then they vote. The trainer again delivers the verdict based on the results of the vote of both groups (to each group) and the corresponding punishment, as well as specifically how the other group voted. If from this point the voting results remain the same three times in a row and the same sanction is pronounced, whatever the ration of votes, the exercise ends.

If the exercise does not end by the fifth round of voting, the trainer announces that the next round will be the last. The negotiators should have a chance to meet again, and a short time to confer within the groups, followed by the final round of voting and the end of the exercise.

Some people may decline to vote during the exercise, which can lead to the vote being tied. If the results of the vote within the group are tied, the following rule is applied: the result will be determined in relation to the previous vote by making the tied vote opposite to the previous vote (if the results of the previous vote were “Not Guilty” then the result of the tied vote will be “Guilty” and vice versa).

Exercise evaluation

Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise:

How did you vote? How satisfied are you with the result?

How satisfied are you with the process? What did the observers notice?

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Exercise description Slowly and clearly read the instructions: “The whole group will spend 20 minutes doing as they please. You can go wherever you want (on your own or together), you can talk, etc., but everyone apart from one person will be blindfolded during those 20 minutes. You must first select the person who will not be blindfolded and you can take as much time as you want. After that, you put on blindfolds and the 20 minutes starts running.” Evaluation Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise: What was it like? What happened? How satisfied are you with the decision-making process?

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Exercise description

The participants split into groups of four or five people. All the groups stay in the same room but work separately. Each group receives a pair of scissors, sticky tape and old newspapers. Slowly and clearly read the task.

Task: “When I say ‘Go!’, your task is to use the materials you have to make a tower as tall as possible. You have three minutes to agree on your strategy and then five minutes to put it into practice.”

Evaluation

Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise: What was it like doing this exercise? How important was it for you to see what the other groups were doing? Why?

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Split into two groups. The groups line up facing each other so that each person from one group has a pair from the other. The pairs stand with their arms stretched out in front of them, but without touching Type of exercise: Interactive, experiential exercise Duration: 30 minutes palms, leaving a bit of space in between. Instructions: “This is a non-verbal exercise. Your task is to get to your wall (your wall is the one you are currently facing), but you have to make sure the distance between your palms and your partner’s is always the same. You have 10 minutes.”

Evaluation

What happened? Did you communicate? How did you agree on what to do?

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Exercise description
A grid of squares is drawn on the floor, 6 x 8 squares It can be made by using masking tape.
Each square should be big enough to allow a person to stand in it. This grid
is a “swamp”. Only some squares are safe to stand on and “won’t sink”.
Only the trainer has the blueprint of safe squares (see illustration). All the participants stand on one side of the
“swamp”.

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The following instructions are read out to them: “Your task is to get the whole group over to the other side of the swamp. Only some of these squares – “rocks” – are safe to stand on and won’t sink. You move in single steps and can only step on the
square that is touching the one you are already standing on, including those
positioned diagonally. There is only one safe path through the swamp. When you step onto the
wrong square you will hear a “splash!”, which means that you are sinking and have to start over. Those who manage to
go through the swamp remain on the other side of the it throughout the exercise. Only one person at a time can
go through the swamp.
You have 10 minutes to work out a strategy.
After that, all communication must stop and the group will have 20 minutes to get through the swamp.”

Evaluation
Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise:
How do you feel after this exercise? What was it like?
How did you agree on a strategy? Did you agree?

How much care did you take of others? Did you try to find a way to get everyone through the swamp?
What was it like for those who were left last?

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Exercise description

Split into four small groups. Each group is assigned one way of decision making: compromise, consensus, voting and “follow the leader”. The task is to analyse the assigned way of decision making and write its strengths and weaknesses on the wall newspaper.

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Exercise description

The whole group sits in a semicircle and everyone takes a small dish. Before the start of the exercise, the trainer reads the instructions clearly and slowly: “I have a whole bunch of sweets. I will give 20 sweets to the person at the beginning of this semicircle. That person can keep as many sweets as they like (they can keep all of them or none) and give the rest to the next person in the semicircle. The next person can also keep as many sweets as they like and pass the rest on. The last person in the semicircle also decides how many sweets to keep and gives the rest of the sweets (if there are any left) to me. If any of the sweets get back to me, the exercise continues and the first person in the semicircle will receive twice as many sweets as were returned to me. Communication is allowed during the exercise, but the order of seating and the order to passing on the sweets may not be changed.”

Evaluation

Suggested questions to evaluate the exercise:

How satisfied are you with the process, what bothered you and why?

How do those with the least sweets feel, and how do those with the most feel?

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