Werewolf

A speaking game like Mafia.

History and contemporary events in the historical perspective.

We’ll discuss participants’ perception of History, talk a little bit about History as a science and hold debates about our views on what’s worth and what’s not worth being in future historical books. The meeting’s host’s Alexander Grachev.

Brain ring

The game, which was quite popular in our country at the end of the last century. The conception is simple. Two teams play against each other, trying to guess the right answer on the particular question. The team, that come up with a correct answer receives a point. You can read full original rules here.

Dima decided to modernize the rules quite a bit to make it more exciting.

Workaholics anonymous

Are you a workaholic?

We are going to discuss pros & cons, possible problems and their solutions.

In the end we’ll brainstorm some tips on work-life balance.

With Alexandra Ugolnikova.

Aiming high

We all have got purpose in life. We dream, we make dreams come true.

Each of us is an artist who is drawing a unique pattern on a timeline. Ambitions, success, persistence, desire, the way you think, the way you believe, the way you feel – all things matter.

It’s even more if you aim high!

Do you agree? Then join us on Monday and speak English! Because if you can, you’ve already achieved a lot!

With Anton Frolov.

 Art of mindfulness

Our life is a race. Higher,faster,stronger…

We are squeezed by the chain of events, achivements and expectations, regreting about our past and worrying about the future.

What is our present like?

Does it really exist?

Is it worth to be noticed?

Let’s make a short stop and try to examine where we are now 🙂

With Anna Ermyagina.

Generation Y

Who are they?

Are you one of them?

What do they need?

Let’s discuss on Monday with Anastasiya K.

Creativity part 2

We had a creativity training which seemed to be a great fun and decided to organize part 2: more creative tasks with totally creative people))

Brain training for Creativity

Even if you’re not an artist, writer or PR shark sometimes you need to fill your head with creative and original ideas. Then you realize life is brighter and full of fantastic things! Creativity is not a talent, it can be pretty easily trained to turn your life into the colorful adventure! 🙂

With Anna E.

Once upon a time (a storytelling card game)

Once Upon A Time is a game in which the players create a story together, using cards that show typical elements from fairy tales. One player is the Storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients on her cards. She tries to guide the plot towards her own ending. The other players try to use cards to interrupt her and become the new Storyteller. The winner is the first player to play out all her cards and end with her Happy Ever After card.

With Anita Modestova

Coping with stuff

On Monday we’re meeting to discuss something really important!
Coping with stuff: Striking the balance between minimalism and hoarding.
Come and share your thoughts.

With Michael Glagolev.

New Year

Monday 23.01 How to build a great team

Do you like to work in team? Some people avoid teamwork because they don’t like to conform with the differences of team members and handle conflicts.
Why teamwork could be challenging? How can we make it easier and get better results?
We’re going to discuss:
– Our best team experience and what made it exceptional;
– The 5 factors that make a great team;
– How you can develop your team and achieve common objectives.

With Dmitry Modestov.

                  Works of art created by animals and robots

Classical art has always been considered as an exclusive sphere of human
activity.

However, the 20th century changed it all.

Animals – earlier only the instrument to produce art – are now trained to
produce objects of art independently, almost without any human
interference.

For sure, animals demonstrate lack of creativity, but robots have gone much
further. They “create” objects which are impossible to distinguish from
created by human artists ones’.

What’s next? What is the future of the art? Will machines supersede us in
this spere? Can you spot any difference between human-art and non-human
art?

With Roman Alymov

Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize your emotions, what they’re telling you and how they affect people around you.

It also involves understanding how the other people feel which allows you to manage relationships more effectively.

The good news is that EI can be learned and developed.

How? Join us this Monday and we will figure it out 🙂

With Anna E.

How Colours Affect Us. 

The way our eyes sense and our brains interpret colours isn’t a subjective experience, but a hard-wired one. Colours influence how we think, feel, and behave — often without our conscious awareness.

Thanks to recent research, we now understand more richly how our brains are affected by colours. Harnessing this knowledge, you can tap into the power of colours to create just right environments and achieve a breathtaking range of visual goals. Also, it can help us dodge popular myths and misconceptions about colour that can easily lead business and companies to make costly mistakes.

I hope that this meeting opens your eyes to why your favourite products practically jump off the shelf, why certain logos are more memorable than others, why particular scenes in nature evoke peace, joy, or fear. We will expand on information about how colours work on our brains to steer our thoughts and actions. We will draw connections between colours and particular moods such as anger, fear, and love. Additionally, we will learn and practise a lot of ‘colour’ vocabulary.

With Stas.

Health, sports and well-being

Regular exercise and a healthy diet can lead to energy boost, happiness, health and even a longer life.

Exercise and diet are pivotal for a person’s overall health. Making them both part of your lifestyle can make a dramatic difference in how you look and feel.

We will talk about the benefits of sport and physical activity, risk factors for major diseases and the Biggest Fitness Myths to debunk.

With Igor E.

Alias – word explanation board game

Can you find the right words?

Explain words from the cards to your team.
Explaining a word do not use any part of it!
Get your team to guess as many words as possible and lead it to the finish first.

A fun way of practicing language skills!

Rules in brief:
1. The teams take turns explaining. The players in every team take turns explaining.
2. The number of words guessed correctly = steps forward on the game board.
3. Mistakes and skipped words = steps backwards on the game board
4. The space your team’s pawn is located indicates the type of words you should explain from the cards
5. Standing on the space with black numbers means that on the team’s following turn everyone guesses at the same time.
6. The first team to arrive to the finish space wins the game!

With Anna Glagoleva.

Positive psychology

Psychology is usually expected to work with negative aspects of our lives, but a new wave(not so new actually) called Positive psychology is a science of positive aspects such as happiness and well-being.

We are going to talk about PP approach, highlight the habits of happy people and discover the art of micro-actions which can make a difference for all of us.

Games-games-games!

Antony prepared some games and tasks that involve you into communication.

I have no idea what we’re going to do, but he promises it will be fun!

=)

Monday 10.04.17. Storytelling

Sometimes it’s difficult to catch the attention of your audience while you are trying to tell them something important, even if the audience is only one person.

We’re going to talk about storytelling tools which help to make your speech more attractive and inspirational. And of course, we’re going to learn and implement different storytelling techniques.

Ability to create and tell powerful stories is crucial in our life and work. So, let’s practice!

See you on Monday!

15 May. “Sleep on”

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of altered consciousness. Unlike other instances of altered consciousness, sleep seems to assist with improvements in the body and mind. We’re going to look into the recent research on sleep and share our experience how to get the most of it =)

Monday 29.05.17 Let’s play Taboo!

(for both groups)

Taboo is a word, guessing, and party game. The objective of the game is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player’s card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card.

Do you frequently ask yourself why you feel exhausted half an hour before your daily tasks are completed? Do you think you are just not able to plan and manage your time?

On Monday we will practice simple, but truly effective techniques so you’ll be able to:

• remember what are the key things you want to dedicate your time to,
• set clear priorities,
• say ‘bye’ to unnecessary things,
• reduce stress,
• find solutions to refill your battery.

Come on Monday =)

Do you start every year with hopes and dreams of new accomplishments?
Do you often make decisions to exercise, eat better, stop smoking, create other strategies to improve your life?
Let’s develop new habits now. Why wait for a new year again?

This Wednesday can be a real start!😉

Our dear friends from 7teaQUIZ are making a special game for us.

I haven’t read the questions myself, so I’m going to take part too =) I just love intellectual games.

Wednesday 05.07. Creativity games

Creativity is the ability to see something and solve problems in new ways.

Many people think that you just have it, or you don’t.

But it’s not a talent (or God’s blessing) – you can quite easily train it!

Interested?

Let’s try out some games and techniques together on Wednesday!

Creativity

Creativity is the ability to see something and solve problems in new ways.

Many people think that you just have it, or you don’t.

But it’s not a talent (or God’s blessing) – you can quite easily train it!

Interested?

Let’s try out some games and techniques together on Wednesday!

Wednesday 12.07. Traveling

What can be more exciting than traveling?

Discover new places, meeting people, tasting the local food!

Summer is the best time to think about it.

What do you prefer: 5-star hotel or outdoor adventure?

Monday 10.07. Detectives club + Werewolf

Werewolf is a party game like Mafia. The Village is your mission: you will attempt to save it or destroy it. One minute you’re a Villager, defending your theoretical home with every fiber of your being. The next, you’re a Werewolf, framing your friends and accusing them of wanting to destroy your village, when really it’s you who’s been infiltrating it all along. Each game becomes an epic phenomenon, designed to test your personal judgement and moral character. 

Monday 17.07. Let’s play Brain Ring!

Intellectual games are getting popular these days and our club is not an exception. This Monday we invite you to play Dima’s version of Brain ring. Two teams play against each other, trying to guess the right answer to a particular question. The team that comes up with a correct answer receives a point. Dima decided to modernize the rules quite a bit to make it more exciting.

Wednesday 19.07. Communication skills games

Communication plays a big part in our lives today. It is hard to think of a single activity that doesn’t involve communications.

On Wednesday we’re going to boost our communication skills through playing games. Come and have fun!

Monday 24.07. Sense of humor.

It is believed that having a good sense of humor reduces stress, helps you cope with pain, creates empathy in social situations, and can even improve your odds of finding a mate. But what is a “good” sense of humor, do you use it in your life and is it possible to improve it? Let’s try to find it out and train our “humor muscle”.

Wednesday 26.07. Stereotypes

Whenever we don’t have a good understanding of a subject, say, of people or countries, then we tend to make assumptions about them. Stereotype is nothing but those assumptions that have become common knowledge. Whenever you make judgments about people without knowing them, you are stereotyping them. Why do we need stereotypes? Do they help us or just spoil our perception?

Monday 31.07. Informal language and slang

We learn Standard English. However, native speakers often surprise us using colloquial terms we have not heard at our classes.
Let us improve our knowledge of informal English vocabulary.

Wednesday 02.08. Future dream world

Every person has his own view about future. Our personal dreams and priorities in combination with imagination can generate plenty of extraordinary variants. On Wednesday let’s create some new future worlds!

Monday 07.08. Digital decluttering

Despite so much of life and work is now digital, our urge to keep things in order often stops at our computers. Perhaps a desktop doesn’t have the physical presence of a workplace buried in papers and is easier to ignore. But can it have just as much drag on one’s life?

Let’s talk how to keep our digital data in order.

Wednesday 09.08. Feelings and emotions

Can you usually define what are your feelings right now? Do you exactly know what makes you joyful or upset? Take care of your feelings and emotions, listen to them carefully and they will reveal many secrets…

Monday 28.08. Say Anything (board game)

Say Anything is a light-hearted game about what you and your friends think. It gives you the chance to settle questions that have been hotly debated for centuries. For instance, “What is the most overrated band of all time?” or “Which celebrity would be the most fun to hang out with for a day?” So dig deep into your heart or just come up with something witty – this is your chance to Say Anything!

Monday 21.08. Emotional intelligence

Value-Based approach for a conversation with our Client.
How to utilize values and use your emotional intelligence in important conversations.

During our meeting, you will choose your target audience (people you most frequently interact with).
Then we will discuss 6 levels of communication that people usually use.
We will examine how values and emotions can influence our communication and how to choose the right ones consciously.
We will try to use a special «package» for delivering meaningful information without emotional barriers.

Wednesday 16.08. Time management

Do you REALLY believe you can manage your time? 🙂
To push it or slow it down according to your need?
The definition of Time-management is a sort of a trick, isn’t it? What you actually can manage is numerous elements of your daily routine. But you should answer some questions before… Which ones?

Let’s discuss it on Wednesday!