Grande finale
Last Friday it was time for our very last session of this course. Mia had prepared us this exciting negotiation exercise where we could implement all the things we had learnt earlier in the course. We were divided into four different nations and the exercise was about getting the other nations vote for your plan of action in order to get it through. To get the other teams on your side it required good negotiation as well as a bit of power play, persuasion and (muffin) bribery. It was surprising how into we all where in this imaginary world and that made the exercise fun. However the exercise could have been even more interesting if there had been an odd amount of teams instead of even because now every nation got their suggestion through since if the voting ended up being a tie it went through. All in all very thought provoking exercise which left me thinking about how politics is being practiced in our society. This exercise gave a nice closure for the whole course. When I decided t...
