Amber Lake is an immersive multilateral negotiation simulation in which participants take on the roles of delegations negotiating the governance of a shared resource under conditions of asymmetric power, competing interests, institutional constraints, and genuine uncertainty. It is not a role-play exercise — it is a negotiating environment in which the dynamics of real multilateral interaction emerge: coalitions form and break, positions shift, and the gap between stated and actual interests becomes visible.
In the Business Edition, organisations with divergent interests negotiating the terms of a shared resource agreement. The scenario places participants under realistic conditions of competitive pressure, incomplete information, and the need to build and sustain working relationships with counterparts whose interests only partially align with their own.
The simulation is followed by a structured debrief that connects the experience directly to the conceptual frameworks of the programme — making visible what each participant actually did under pressure, and why.
Learning environment: The session takes place in a sufficiently large room with chairs arranged in a circle. Tables are not used: they create distance and inhibit the quality of interaction that makes the learning real. Video recording is not permitted, as it affects both confidentiality and the natural dynamics of group interaction. Photography is welcome before or after the workshop.
Timeframe: 4 hours with a 15-minute break.
Optimal group size: from 12 to 30 participants.
