Motivation
Questions for discussion:
- How do you define motivation?
- How are you best motivated?
- What is something a boss can do to motivate his workers?
- Can some people destroy your motivation? What do you do to keep your motivation?
- How do you maintain your motivation when you fail?
- Do you find that motivated people are more successful than unmotivated people?
- What part does motivation plays in effective teaching?
- Under what conditions can motivation be influenced by ambition?
The problem of choice
Questions for discussion:
- What do you understand by the problem of choice? Does this problem really exist? How much does it influence people’s life?
- Is/was it easy for you to choose (friends, partners, a place to study, a career, a place to have rest, things to buy, etc)? Do/did you make the choice by yourself or does/did anybody/ anything influence your choice? Which cases are/were the easiest? Which cases are/were the most difficult?
- What do you do to make the right choice? Are there any special techniques?
Finding the best way to live the life
Questions for discussions:
- Does everyone live a unique way, a unique “method of life”?
- Do things in life differ depending on the “method of life” or will be the same even if we change it?
- What are the main things you enjoy in life? Are they results or processes?
- Are people usually aware about the method or pattern of life they live?
- Do we perceive life through the filters of this very “method of life”?
Is it stupid to release negative feelings by pounding a pillow?
Questions for discussion:
- What's best to do with negative feelings?
- What do you when you are down?
- Why the Nature or Evolution or God provided us with negative and positive feelings? Do these reasons serve its purpose?
- Can a person who sometimes has negative feelings be really happy in life?
- What is it to be really happy in life?
Feelings
Questions for discussion:
- Defining "feelings" and understanding their importance
- Not knowing what we feel keeps us unaware of what is going on inside
- The thinking mind and the feeling mind
- The true language of the subconscious mind: feelings, sensations, emotions, impressions and memories
- What we resist will persist, but what we can feel we can heal
Personality
Questions for discussion:
- What shapes our personality: our genes or the environment where we grow up? Justify your opinion, give the examples.
- Does our nationality determine the way we think and act? In what way?
- Do you believe in horoscopes? Can our date of birth influence our character? Comment on your horoscope. How much close is it to the reality?
- Does changing our appearance (hairstyle, clothes, etc) change our personality as well?
Stress
Rules:
The players are divided into two groups: one group asks questions (enquirers), the second answers to them (respondents). They sit opposite each other at the table.
Each enquirer choose the only question from the list, announced the choice and consistently discusses it for 2-4 minutes with each respondent.
At the end of the discussion all the enquires summarize the answers in 3-5 minutes speeches.
After a break the groups are swapped.
Questions for discussion:
- Do you think people need stress?
Being clever is the stupidest choice in the world, isn't it? Do you want to be clever?
Questions for discussion:
- If you had to choose between to be clever and to be rich, what would you choose?
- Do you want to be very sensitive? Why do people usually choose not to be?
- Are you always ready to accept the truth? Are you ready to admit that you are not right when you are not right? Why do people usually prefer not to do it?
- Are you always ready to support people with your attention and understanding? Why do people prefer not to do it?
Psychologists and their problems
Questions for discussion:
- We have as many opinions as psychologists. Is psychology a science?
- The typical style of self-presentation for them is that: I am a clever man (woman), because a great science stands behind my words. Is it fair? They have no permission to give advice. They should try to explain things that their clients don't want to see.
- Is it a comfortable role to be a psychologist? Isn't it more natural to kick away (to give a boot to) all ignorant people with all their ignorance?
Self-presentation
Questions for discussion:
- What is your uniqueness? Do you need to be unique? Are you shy or too modest to answer this question?
- What is more important, form or content? Interface or functionality?
- Is modesty a virtue? What about immodesty?
- What is written on your banner?
- Is it necessary to be clever, rich or beautiful, being properly dressed? What is more important for women? What is more important for men?
- Are you a busy person? Do you have free time?

