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Meet up with friends and set the world to right. If you are not getting the mental stimulus you crave, need to try something different or the Nintendo is starting to get stale start up a Discussion Circle or come to ours.

Start your own Discussion Circle

All you need is a room(pubs will often provide a room for free), from 6-16 people, a subject to talk about and some notes on that subject. A good chair person is a great asset. see Notes on Chairing meetings.

Want help?
Want ready made notes?

 

HEADLINES


A programme for Jan to April 2012 for the Blue Mugge, Leek has been posted.

A programme for Jan to July 2012 for the Lazy Trout, Meerbrook has been posted.

We've received an email from Sidney Australia thanking us for the use of the notes on "The Age of Absurdity - Arthur Schopenhauer"( Blue Mugge notes for April 12th 2011) in their U3A philosophy course. Its good to know that we have world wide coverage.

The alphabetical index of past discussion notes has been updated up to 5th Oct 2011.There are now 160 discussions to choose from!

The Leicester Pips group meets at the Crumblin' Cookie in the City Centre

Click " Discussion notes" in the side menu to access the latest notes for a particular venue.

Discussion Circles

Discussion Circles are discussion groups that meet regularly in pubs.
Open to all; everyone who attends is a member; non-party & non-sectarian.
Some sessions are based on Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 programme 'In our Time' (IoT). We also use as a resource the Open Democracy.net (odn) and the BBC's Thinking Allowed(TA) plus, occasionally a specific book, poem or art work.
Usually free of charge, although an occasional £1.00 donation may be requested.
Very flexible - attend when you can - each session is self-contained
Notes provided in advance for each meeting to all members (by e-mail or post and also in this website).
The aim is to explore the topic, sharing views and ideas in a very informal way. The evening is relaxed and everybody gets a chance to have a say. The idea is not to get on your soap box but to share your views and also learn from the views of others.
Most evenings there are between 10 and 16 participants. We sit roughly in a circle and contribute informally and, hopefully, reasonably concisely.

Normally minutes on the discussion are not published.

If you want ready made notes to start a discussion or are just curious what we talked about in our discussions then an achive of notes is available here