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Cave RescueTeam Decision Exercise
A tunnel collapse traps your team underground. Light, clean air, warmth, and clear marks decide the way out.
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Use this high-stakes survival scenario to give the group one structured decision. Every team must explain priorities, work through disagreement, and reach one shared ranking before the reveal.
Claustrophobic and methodicalMediumcommunication workshops
Sample items
First-aid kit with splints
Air quality monitor
Teams debate the value of 9 items and lock in one shared ranking. The reveal compares their choices with the scenario's reference ranking, giving the facilitator concrete material for a debrief about priorities, persuasion, changing minds, and consensus.
Best for: communication workshops, small-team sessions, groups that enjoy constraints
What teams debate: Light, air, markings, warmth, and how to move without making things worse.
Debrief prompts
- Which item created the strongest disagreement?
- What assumption did the team make too quickly?
- Who changed their mind during the discussion?
- Did the team optimize for safety, speed, rescue, or certainty?
- What would you do differently in a real group decision?
Which would you keep inCave Rescue
Find the Way Out
Air quality monitor
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Glow sticks (12)
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In the full session, your team ranks all 9 items
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These matchups are just a taste. In the full session, your team ranks all 9 items, compares its choices with the reference, and revisits the reasoning behind them.