Red-green game etc. found in an unsual environment

[Oscar]

I watch the TV the other day. We have some show where self-pronounced celebrities makes dinner for 3 "friends" and then rate the food and the entertainment. Properly something you also have seen.

The host at this show was a star from a show following 20 sometings when they are out partying and dating. This young man had made his own business where he trained other youngsters in the art of dating. People pay some thousand DKK to get a 3 week training in setting up goals for how their dream lady should look and how they can make themselves appear if they had self-esteem.

He was asked if he did counseling in maintaining a relationship. (He is single). He told his guests that it is a too hard an investment both in time and money. It is better just to date and score.

Then it became time for the entertainment. We saw the giver-taker game and red-green game. The girls was not impressed. The visited one of the rooms the clients were living in. Each client had to set up a poster with goals. This client had a lot of boobs and behinds on his wall. It was rather easy to see what this client wanted to achieve with his little dating rehab.

The homepage of this firm is here. It is called the dating academy in English.

If you want to enter a market where the clients are as desperate a parents of at-risk teams and want to make use of all the games you have learned of through hard times, here is an idea.

[bobbyfischer]

http://www.secretprisonsforteens.dk/for ... t_workshop

The Red/Green Game

An exercise in the Summit. Otherwise known as the "Red/Black Game" in Lifespring. The peer group is divided into two groups, A and B. The groups are then put in two different rooms. Each group is told that they are going to play a game and the object is to win, while working as a team and working together. The game consists of several rounds. In each round, each group is supposed to vote on a color, either red or green. Choosing a particular color will result in a shifting of points for both your group and the other group. The following is a description on how the points are distributed.

If group a and group b both vote red, both groups lose five points.

If group a votes red and group b votes green, group a gains five points and group b loses five points.

If group a votes green and group b votes red, then group a loses five points and group b gains five points.

If group a and group b both vote green, both groups gain three points.

The object of the game is for both teams to end up voting green consistently, the message being that things should be a green/green win/win situation. Followed by the question "What if no one was out to get you?" During the exercise, the group is goaded on by the staff to vote for the wrong color, sometimes refusing to accept a vote if they think that the students have figured out how the game works too early. Students are later shamed about the fact that they tried so hard to "get" the other team.

Giver/Taker

An exercise in the summit workshop. Each student goes around the circle, looks in the eyes of the person sitting down, and tells them whether they think that person is a giver or a taker. Every student was required to keep a tally of both the giver and taker votes they received, as well as circling their own vote.