Set Them Free

Set Them Free: High-stakes team development where decision-making, leadership, and trust are tested.

Set Them Free is a live team development simulation where your team must lead a high-pressure hostage negotiation scenario and safely bring everyone home.
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What is Set Them Free

Teams are given limited intelligence, unclear alliances, and one objective: secure the release of all ten hostages without compromising safety, ethics, or strategic clarity. The situation unfolds in real time. Information is incomplete. Emotions run high. Every decision matters. It's a structured, emotionally intelligent challenge that surfaces real behaviours, exposes unspoken patterns, and unlocks the kind of leadership that reveals:

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How decisions are made when there's no clear “right” answer

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Where clarity breaks down between leaders, roles, and messages

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Whether trust is concentrated or shared across the team

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How ethical leadership and performance goals compete (or align)

Your Team Will Uncover

How they lead in complex, high-stakes environments

Helps reveal true leadership styles e.g. collaborative, authoritarian, avoidant, or adaptive.

Where decision-making is delayed or dominated

Surfaces the moments where teams hesitate, defer, or default - and the impact it has.

How trust and psychological safety really play out

Exposes who is heard, who holds power, and how teams navigate risk together.

How they balance logic, emotion, and ethics

Participants must consider facts, empathy, and outcomes — all under pressure.

How they recover from mistakes in real time

Builds awareness of accountability, blame, and repair in team performance.

How It Works

Format: Facilitated tabletop activity with a mixture of practical and digital elements
Duration: 3.5 hours
Location: Available across the UK, including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow and more. Sessions can be delivered at offices, conference venues, or other indoor team spaces.
Group Size: 10 - 200 Participants
Facilitators: Experienced lead facilitators & activity support guides
Environmental Impact: Minimal - we are committed to using reusable materials in all our events

Measurable Outcomes

After Set Them Free, teams typically experience:

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Stronger Leadership Clarity Under Pressure where teams gain practical insight into how leadership shows up when the stakes are real.

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Improved Psychological Safety and Shared Ownership — Participants report deeper awareness of trust dynamics and inclusive decision-making.

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Sharper Ethical Decision-Making where teams learn how to align choices with values in uncertain or urgent scenarios.

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Increased Adaptability and Resilience — Facilitators observe stronger real-time recovery and strategy-shifting behaviours session-to-session.

Is Set Them Free Right For Your Team?

Set Them Free is particularly valuable for teams who are:

  • Senior teams navigating complexity, crisis, or change
  • Leaders developing strategic confidence and ethical alignment
  • Teams working in high-pressure, public-facing, or risk-sensitive industries
  • Groups seeking a transformative alternative to roleplay or classroom training
  • Organisations focused on leadership development, not just bonding

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