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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5828214" data-attributes="member: 83796">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=55178" target="_blank">Nytmare</a> 's approach seems sensible, as your audience is unlikely to have the shared expectations, skills and time to take on board a rule set, a highly imaginative context and the actual topic, i.e. effective persuasion.Kind of like a present you can't see or get into because the paper's too thick and the sender used duct tape.That said, if you're working with the same group for a while the options I'll suggest can quickly prime them for RPG play and the topic is easily translated into any context.So imo:Avoid spoon feeding and allow them to take ownership of their learning, i.e. introduce the topic, but don't list or hand-out the solutions/ 12 ways at the start.Brief that you're going to put the class/ groups in the position of having to chose ways of trying to persuade people. Explain that this is as a way of getting the class to explore different approaches to persuading people and looking at what works and and doesn't work. )in effect, evaluate the 12 steps).Drop the players into a real world situation/ hook. Something current, on-going and broadly relevant to everyone in the room - but fairly apolitical (to them). Immerse them in the topic through relevant infographics.Give the players a team entity rather than separate roles. Then put them in some sort of crisis management or avoidance scenario where they are 'consultants' meeting to decide how to persuade/ advise someone/ an organisation/ a population of the need to make a change.Offer them a wide selection of good and definitely not so good approaches/ options for persuading, (including the 12 steps), and ask the group/ s to discuss them and select those most likely to work in the scenario.Ask them to pick the best and rate them on a scale. Then ask them to explain or justify their top choices - again in relation to the chosen RP situationOnly then identify the 12 steps and open-up discussion of how the choices made by the class compare to the steps.. . . for a longer session they could be asked to arrange their order into a sequence of steps or a system.If everyone gets caught-up in <a href="http://dailyinfographic.com/" target="_blank">taking a role in a scenario-based situation</a> - like persuading the Japanese energy minister to protect nuclear plants more in the future or persuading parents not to spy on their kids on Facebook - they'll be up for a deeper role next time out. Simple mechanics, e.g. Jenga or Scissors, Paper, Stone . . . and the much more RPG survival/ marooned scenario easily follow . . .HTH</blockquote>

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