GABRIELLE PIMSTONE
EXPERIENCE
Behavioural Simulation
A three-hour experiential session for up to 15 people. Creates a live environment where adaptive behaviours can be experienced and adjusted in real time.
THE PROBLEM
You can ask a leadership team how psychologically safe they feel, how well they hold uncertainty, how ready they are for change and get a reasonable-sounding answer. What that answer can't tell you is how the group actually behaves once the pressure is real.
The most powerful way to see a pattern clearly is to watch it happen in real time.
The best way to see how a group holds psychological safety, containment, trust, or readiness for change - conditions that determine whether a system can adapt - is to watch it happen, not rely on how people describe it once the pressure has passed.
WHAT CHANGES
Before the simulation, these patterns run on autopilot - nobody's consciously choosing them, they just happen. Afterwards, people can see themselves doing it in real meetings and catch it before it plays out the same way again.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
The simulation places participants in a live environment designed to surface how the system responds to uncertainty, pressure, and competing demands.
It runs in two to three phases, each built to bring out a specific condition of adaptive capacity. The group moves through each phase in turn.
The debrief then steps through each phase one by one: what participants experienced, what the facilitator observed, and the content and principles behind the condition that phase was designed to surface.
It is grounded in systems psychodynamics which means the dynamics that show up in the room are treated as real data about how the system operates, not as role play.
WHAT YOU GET
A direct experience of your own adaptive behaviours and the defaults that surface when the system is stressed
Insight into how you, your team or organisation responds to ambiguity, boundary crossing, and new information in real time
Eight practical micro tools covering all eight adaptive capacity dimensions - not just the two or three surfaced live in the room
A shared reference point the group can return to - "remember what happened in the simulation" is a powerful shortcut in future conversations
HOW IT CONNECTS
The Behavioural Simulation works as a standalone session.
It works particularly well with the Adaptive Health Check, creating a broader, richer picture of what is obstructing adaptability in the organisation or team.