Cave Rescue
This is an activity to assist with decision making whilst working as part of a team.
How to run it
- This is an activity to assist with decision making whilst working as part of a team. It will promote discussion, collaboration and an element of negotiation within the teams.
- Allow about 60 minutes to complete the session, ensuring sufficient time is allocated to the debrief.
- Please note: You must provide participants with the ‘Handout’, which is included in the document available from the free download button below.
- After reading through the scenario, you are then to undertake the following tasks:
- Individually , use the Ranking Sheet to order the volunteers. You have 10 minutes to do this.
- Working in your groups , re-discuss the order in which the group believe each of the volunteers should be removed for the cave.
- Collectively, use the Ranking Sheet to present the order of extraction from the cave. You have 20 minutes for this.
- Your group is asked to take the role of a research management committee who are funding projects into human behaviour in confined spaces.
- Individually, use the Ranking Sheet to order the volunteers. You have 10 minutes to do this.
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Prompts to use +
Allow about 60 minutes to complete the session, ensuring sufficient time is allocated to the debrief.
Please note: You must provide participants with the ‘Handout’, which is included in the document available from the free download button below.
Individually , use the Ranking Sheet to order the volunteers. You have 10 minutes to do this.
Working in your groups , re-discuss the order in which the group believe each of the volunteers should be removed for the cave.
Collectively, use the Ranking Sheet to present the order of extraction from the cave. You have 20 minutes for this.
Individually, use the Ranking Sheet to order the volunteers. You have 10 minutes to do this.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Cave Rescue. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Allow about 60 minutes to complete the session, ensuring sufficient time is allocated to the debrief.; Please note: You must provide participants with the ‘Handout’, which is included in the document available from the free download button below.; Individually , use the Ranking Sheet to order the volunteers. You have 10 minutes to do this.; Working in your groups , re-discuss the order in which the group believe each of the volunteers should be removed for the cave.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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