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Experiential Learning Activities

Every activity below has been piloted, revised, and run with real students before it ever reached this page. More are always in the works.

The Burnout Budget

● Live

You get a bag of resources that stands for everything you have to give, and it is not enough to cover your life. Every round takes more, and the categories you quietly stop funding are the ones that decide how the rest of it goes.

Organizational Behavior Well-Being Burnout Resilience
Theoretical Basis Conservation of Resources theory: people work to obtain, protect, and build valued resources, and stress arises when they’re threatened or depleted.
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40 to 60 min · Individual boards, any class size · In person or online

The Last Light of Alexandria

● Live

The library is burning and not everything can be saved. A five-person team leads with no leader, partial information, and losses that cannot be undone.

Leadership Crisis Management Sensemaking Ethics
Theoretical Basis Leadership in extreme contexts and sensemaking theory, which explain how people construct meaning from ambiguous, disruptive events, often only in hindsight.
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60 min · Teams of 5 · In person

The Act

● Live

Every message you send as a manager carries two hidden scores. One rewards results. One punishes pressure. You only find out about the second one at the end.

Ethics Influence Leadership Trust
Theoretical Basis Influence tactics and power bases research, paired with a four-part test covering transparency, autonomy, proportionality, and respect, used for telling persuasion apart from manipulation and coercion.
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∼60 min · Groups of 3–4 · In person or online

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In development

Every piece of information you open costs something. You find out what it actually cost three screens later, when you are asked to justify a decision using only what you can defend.

Privacy Ethics Communication Human Resources
Theoretical Basis Communication Privacy Management theory: accessing someone’s private information makes you a co-owner of it, bound by rules about how it should be shared, retained, or protected.
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∼60 min · Groups of 3–4 · In person or online

Coach, Don’t Correct

In development

Paste a resume bullet into most AI tools and you get a polished replacement in seconds. This one asks what you meant and makes you write your own fix first.

AI Coaching Career Development Feedback
Theoretical Basis Feedback Intervention Theory and Self-Determination Theory: feedback aimed at a person’s own attempt, not a ready-made answer, is what builds durable skill.
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Self-paced · Individual · Online

Always looking to add more. Check back for what’s next.

About BWOX

A few of the activities above are hosted through BWOX, a repository created by Dr. Brandon Charpied of classroom exercises with the facilitator guide, the student materials, the timing, and the debrief. Not an abstract, not a conference paper describing one: the thing itself, ready to teach on Tuesday.

Everything is accessible from this site either way, whether it’s hosted here directly or through BWOX. This page will always point you to wherever it needs to go.