The open curatorial hour on topic «Non-traditional religion movements in Kazakhstan» was held by the psychology and pedagogy department of KSU. The teacher Zh.Zh.Romasheva was the moderator of action. Within the curatorial hour such questions as the culture and religion, destructive religious associations, methods of involving in the destructive religious movements, religious extremism and terrorism were considered. The invited guests were on this action: D.A.Dissyukov - specialist of analysis and monitoring department of «Centre of research religious problems» of Kostanay; Yu.Ya.Bondarenko - associate professor of philosophy department; Zh.A.Shaukenov - director of «Centre of problems of interethnic and interfaith consent» of Kostanay and also 3 year students of speciality «Psychology».

D.A.Dissyukov went first. He told about activity of destructive religious associations and its methods of recruitment in the accessible and interesting formats for students, providing examples from our daily life. The video «Influence of the destructive religious associations on the person» was demonstrated after his speech. Yu.Ya.Bondarenko explained the problem of relationship between culture and religion. Zh.A.Shaukenov spoke about modern religious situation in Kazakhstan and about the origins of religious extremism and terrorism.

Students took active part in discussion, asked the interesting questions and expressed own views. After that the anonymous survey on the topic «Can you fall under someone’s influence?» was held. At the end of event, students received sheets in the form of rays of the sun, on which they wrote recommendations about action, which need to do, in order not to become victim of destructive religious associations. They stuck rays to the sun, which was illustrated on the whatman. Also all participants received booklets «Religion and tolerance».