Four countries. One shared world. Your decisions matter.
Your workshop at a glance
Format
A facilitated, interactive tabletop simulation.
The world
Four fictional countries whose development is interconnected.
The experience
An introduction, three increasingly complex game phases, guided reflection and practical application.
Duration
The classic GCG Experience takes place over two immersive days.
Participation
Join an open workshop with people from different backgrounds or book an in-house workshop for your organisation.
You shape your country's development
You and your group take responsibility for one of four fictional countries. Together, you manage resources, make decisions and organise life within your country.
Conditions change across three game phases. Different forms of leadership and organisation shape how you act. What provides direction and drives success in one phase may reach its limits in the next.
After an introduction to the world and the rules, you step into the simulation. Facilitators guide the process and lead the reflections. The decisions are yours.
Three game phases reshape your world
01 Experience belonging and navigate power
Your community and its ability to assert itself take centre stage. What brings you together? Who do you trust? Who sets the direction?
You experience how belonging creates security and draws boundaries between your group and others. Influence, leadership and power emerge. You explore how to assert your interests, respond to authority and deal with resistance.
What holds you together, and who determines your course?
02 Create structure and deliver results
Your country develops shared rules, clear responsibilities and organised processes. Structure provides security and makes coordinated action more reliable.
At the same time, performance, growth and measurable results become increasingly important. You allocate resources, pursue goals and work to strengthen your position. You discover when order and competition help you progress and when they limit your options.
How do you organise for success, and how do you measure it?
03 See the connections and act together
The relationships between countries become decisive. You experience how closely your own options depend on the decisions of others.
The challenge is now to connect different interests and develop strategies for an increasingly complex system. New events demand adaptation. You need to recognise dependencies, weigh consequences and think beyond your own country’s borders.
How do you shape the wider system while being part of it?
Complexity grows through your actions
Decisions trigger responses. Agreements change relationships. New events affect a world you have helped shape.
As the simulation unfolds, familiar answers become less effective. You need to consider your own task, the interests of others and the development of the wider system at the same time.
You explore which approaches work under which conditions and when a different perspective is needed.
Reflection turns experience into understanding
Guided reflection follows each game phase. Together, we explore what happened:
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How did belonging and power influence our actions?
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Which structures helped us, and which held us back?
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What were the consequences of our drive for results?
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When did we see the bigger picture and act together?
We connect your personal experience with your group’s dynamics and developments across the wider system.
What does this world reveal about yours?
You may recognise the coordination between departments. Collaboration across professions. The allocation of limited resources. Or the challenge of taking shared responsibility with people who see things differently.
These connections make the GCG relevant to business, healthcare, education and the social sector. In the final reflection, you bring the experience back to your own context: what have you learned, and what will you approach differently?