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EVENT CALENDAR

The Great Escape


Time Allowance: 20-30 Minutes
Equipment Needed: None

Steps

1. This exercise can bring about some lively conversation. It can be used as a tool in working toward improvisation, decision making, and creativity. The group is told they are trapped in a hut in the middle of a large forest. Food is pretty much gone and to stay there would probably mean that they would perish.

2. To reach safety, they will need to overcome the following obstacles:

a. Break out of a thick-walled hut
b. A 20-foot smooth barricade
c. Negotiate an intense barbed wire fence
d. Cross a treacherous, murky river
e. Travel through an entangled, deep tropical forest
f. A malarial swamp

3. The group is to decide what three things would be useful for their escape. They will have nothing else at their disposal. The group cannot use things like helicopters or magical devices like laser guns.

Processing Issues

Making Group Decisions
Communication
Problem-Solving
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