ECC changes day of meetings

ECC meetings are held now on Wednesdays (from 19:00 to 21:00) and Sundays (from 16:00 to 18:00) Details

ECC moves to a new place

ECC meetings are held now at Club Marsel (Krasnoproletarskaya, 16, Novoslobodskaya metro station). Details

Relations

Family

Questions for discussion:

  1. What is the role of family in modern society? Was it different before? How has it changed?
  2. How important to have good relationships with your relatives?
  3. Do you think that every member of a family should have some particular duties?
  4. Do you agree with the statement that husband is a head of a family or you are for the democracy inside of a family?
  5. What is the perfect number of children to have?
  6. What do you think of married couples who decide not to have any child?

Telling Lies

Questions for discussion:

  1. Why do people tell lies? Is there any excuse for doing it?
  2. Are there any people who never lie?
  3. Is lying always bad, or sometimes it is ok?
  4. What’s your attitude to white lies? Do they do any good?
  5. Do you lie only when it is necessary? Or sometimes it can come about of itself?
  6. Is it good advice to always say everything what you think? Do we have to choose proper language?
  7. Can you forgive anyone for lying? Are there any lies you can’t forgive?

Men, women and all kind of stereotypes

  1. Who should and who shouldn't, who does and who doesn’t, and why?
  2. ~ make court , be gallant
    ~ propose
    ~ be inferior
    ~ give in, give way, concede, comply, step back
    ~ protect, defend

  3. Who is the giver and who is the taker?
  4. What one may expect to get in return?
  5. Who is stronger? Who lives longer lives and why?
  6. Around whom should the family be built?
  7. Who should be the breadwinner and who should be the housespouse?
  8. What is man's work and what is woman's?
  9. Should boys and girls be given the same toys?

Upbringing

Questions for discussion:

  1. What does good upbringing mean, in your opinion?
  2. How much is it important for a child to have a full family? What could be the consequences of being brought-up in a one-parent family?
  3. Is it possible to bring up children without punishment? Should parents use punishment at least sometimes?
  4. What is better for a child, from your point of view, to go to kindergarten or to be at home with a nanny?
  5. What is better for a child, from your point of view, to grow up alone or with brothers/sisters?

To marry or not, whom & how? (revisited)

Questions for discussion:

  1. Why do people get married? What does mean and when is it a good time?
  2. What’s the difference between living together and being married?
  3. Is marriage a good investment? Is it more financially sound to simply stay single?
  4. Do men and women view marriage differently?
  5. Are you in favour of no sex before marriage? What’s more important purity or experience?
  6. Do you think that marriage should be for life?

Taboo conversation topics

  1. When you fill in a form, are you happy to give this information: Your age? Your marital status? Your income? Are there any other questions you don't like answering?
  2. Look at the questions below. Decide who has the right to ask you these questions. lt may be a particular person, for example, a doctor, a priest, a police officer, a partner/lover. lt might be anybody or it might be nobody.
    • How old are you?
    • How much do you weigh?
    • How tall are you?
    • How much do you earn?
    • Have you got a boy/girlfriend?

Loneliness....cancer or cure?

Questions for discussion:

  1. What things men should to do to interest a woman
  2. What things women should to do to interest a man
  3. Name things men shouldn't do to lose somebody they like
  4. Name things women shouldn't do to lose somebody they like
  5. Would the answers to above questions differ 30 years ago?
  6. Have you ever screwed up an amazing relationship?
  7. Share some funny or embarrassing stories from your love life
  8. Can being alone lead to more comfortable life than being with somebody?

Upbringing

Questions for discussion:

  1. What does good upbringing mean, in your opinion?
  2. How much is it important for a child to have a full family? What could be the consequences of being brought-up in a one-parent family?
  3. Is it possible to bring up children without punishment? Should parents use punishment at least sometimes?
  4. What is better for a child, from your point of view, to go to kindergarten or to be at home with a nanny?
  5. What is better for a child, from your point of view, to grow up alone or with brothers/sisters?

Negotiations

  1. What skills and qualities do you think a good negotiator has?
  2. In what circumstances do you have to negotiates at work (both formally and informally) and in everyday life?
  3. There is a theory of five styles of negotiations behaviors:
  4. - Competing (I win - You lose)
    - Accommodating (I Lose - You Win)
    - Avoiding (I Lose - You Lose)
    - Compromising (I Lose / Win Some - You Lose / Win Some)
    - Collaborating (I Win - You Win)

  5. What is your preferred style of negotiation? Which negotiation styles are likely to reward you with the biggest profit?

What do women feel toward men?

Questions for discussion:

  1. How the attitude to men and women changed throughout the history.
  2. To love men women have to respect them. Feminism denies that men are better than women in any way. So men have nothing to be respected for, don't them?. Is any love possible now?
  3. What should women do? Forget about love? Become lesbians? Damn feminism and feminist and try to find reasons for respect?
  4. In what are men better and stronger than women except carrying heavy objects?

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