Phronon O N

About Phronon

Online tools for
practical judgment

Phronon is a small family of online tools for teaching ethics, leadership, organizational design, inequality, and group decision-making. Each one puts students and professionals inside a real decision — then holds up a mirror to how they decided.

What it is

Every Phronon tool runs in the browser and can be used on its own. An educator creates a session and shares a short code or a link; participants join on any device — no account, no install, no downloads, no tracking, no ads. Each tool is built for university courses, executive education, and seminars, and works equally well in a lecture hall or online.

How a session works

  1. Create — the educator sets up a session in the tool's backoffice.
  2. Share — participants join with a session code or link, in the browser.
  3. Decide — participants work through the scenario or assessment.
  4. Reflect — everyone in the session sees, together, how it actually reasoned.

The tools

Controversy Generator

Productive disagreement, by design.

From a short opinion survey it forms discussion groups so that each group holds genuinely opposing views — engineering the conditions for real debate instead of polite consensus.

Audience: Students & seminars · Typical time: 5–10 min + pair discussion

Drawbridge Drama

Moral judgment under pressure.

A five-minute, participant-facing scenario that forces a moral call, then surfaces how participants reason about responsibility and blame — a fast, vivid opener for any ethics discussion.

Audience: Students · Typical time: ~5 min

Inequality Explorer

Seeing the distribution.

An interactive simulation of wealth and income inequality that turns abstract distributions into something tangible, manipulable, and genuinely debatable.

Audience: Students · Typical time: 10-20 min

Layoff Exercise

Deciding who goes.

An ethical decision-making simulation: participants choose whom to let go from a fictional company, then confront the criteria they actually used — efficiency, fairness, loyalty, need.

Audience: Students & managers · Typical time: 90–120 min

Moral Mirror

See your own ethics from the outside.

A modular ethics experiment for the classroom: participants answer framed moral dilemmas under randomized conditions, then the session sees — live — how the framing shifted its own judgments.

Audience: University students & seminars · Typical time: Modular, 10–45 min

OrgDesignSim

Redesign the organization.

Restructure a fictional company across 52 simulated weeks, balancing performance, fairness, and finances — sustained practical judgment about organizations under real constraints.

Audience: Advanced students & executives · Typical time: ~60 min

Polarity Profiler

Your leadership repertoire, across four polarities.

A self-assessment that maps the range of leadership styles a person can actually draw on — opening reflection on defaults, blind spots, and untried registers.

Audience: Professionals & students · Typical time: ~20 min

Whiteout

Survive together — or not at all.

A team survival exercise. Groups must reach consensus on how to act in a life-or-death scenario, exposing how groups really decide under uncertainty and time pressure.

Audience: Teams & groups · Typical time: 35–90 min

Privacy & hosting

Phronon is operated by Urs Mueller in Berlin, Germany. All tools are hosted in Germany (IONOS SE — server located in Germany), are, and collect only what a session needs. See the legal notice & privacy statement for details.

Contact

Questions, course use, or access: info@phronon.org.

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