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Nuclear Explosion:
Feelings in DecisionMaking
Learning Objectives:
1) To know the factors in creative
decision-making;
2) To articulate alternatives for a
fuller appreciation of the
problem at hand;
3) To encourage a receptive
attitude toward the role of

Materials:
1) Pencils for participants
2) Copies of The Problem
Situation and The
Choice

Activity:
1)
2)
3)

Ten participants are chosen to role play and are assigned their roles, listed on The Choice
Sheet.
They are given copies of The Problem Situation
The participants are to work out their personal choices and discuss which of the ten characters
will board the spaceship.

The Problem Situation

Recently there was a nuclear explosion on one of the islands in the Pacific. It was such
a massive explosion that a chain reaction was triggered.
As a result, one nuclear reactor after another exploded. The world was devastated and
almost the entire world population was wiped out.

The Problem Situation

(continued)
Eventually, of the entire world population, only ten persons survived. These 10 persons
have managed to congregate at a certain place on earth, where there is a spaceship about to
leave for another planet. On this other planet they will try to start a new life.
Unfortunately, the spaceship can accommodate only six persons.

The Problem Situation

(continued)

Your task now will be to choose the six persons (no ranking). This means that the
remaining four will be left behind on earth to die.

The Choice Sheet

Priest (young man)

Pregnant housewife
Architect (husband of housewife)
Doctor (old man)
Entertainer (young girl)
Professor & Philosopher (Middleaged man)
Farmer (middle-aged man)
Human Development Worker
(Middle-aged male)
Scientist (elderly Man)
Artist (Young Man)

Analysis:
Questions the Facilitator may ask the
participants:
1) What were your thoughts,
feelings and reactions to the
choices made?
2) Did you feel free to explain your
position and feelings?
3) What can you say about the roles
of feelings and intuition in
decision-making?
4) Did they help you reach a
decision that is right for you?

Abstraction:
The Facilitator
discusses creative
problem solving and
decision-making. He
may introduce a theory
or a model relative to
these topics.

Application:
The Facilitator may ask the
participants to reflect in their
journal the ways by which they
can creatively utilize decisionmaking in their work or in their
daily lives.