a collection of ideas, methods, examples and leads to create better prehearsals

Role playing is a form of group judgment. It puts a group of people into a future situation and asks them to act the same as those in that situation would. The original role-playing scenarios were the war games conducted by the USA and (probably) the Soviet militaries in the 1950s, simulating the tensions and negotiations leading to a nuclear attack. Today role playing is common in emergency preparedness and for those preparing for dangerous technical missions, such as pilots, astronauts or nuclear operators (see Jarva, 2000) -Peter Bishop, Andy Hines and Terry Collins

from conversation with sarah neville:

• think about language (make a specific vocabulary)
• have short iterative prehearsal-reflection cycles (prehearse several scenarios 1 hour each for example)
• don't reveal the whole process from the beginning
• set clear boundaries and tasks
• limit options
• …