LOVE

Why are relationships so complicated?
What can we do about the ebbs and flows of attraction?
What is the value of time alone?

Everyone knows that love makes us happier but also more miserable than anything else.  We’ve created a course to guide you through its joys and pitfalls using insights and wisdom from the greatest thinkers on the topic.

We explore some burning questions: Do I really need a relationship? How can I have better conversations with my lover? How important is sex? How can love be made to last?

We draw on ideas from philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature and art. We discover what the likes of Plato, Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Freud had to say about compassion, empathy and self-love. And we ask how institutions of love, such as courtship and marriage, have changed over the centuries and where that legacy leaves us now.

For more information about our Love course click on the PDF icon at the bottom of this page.

Upcoming courses

One Weekend
Saturday 29 November 10.00 - 22.00 (includes evening meal) and Sunday 30 November 2008, 10.00 - 18.00
Led by Sophie Howarth 

One Weekend
Saturday 21 February 10.00 - 22.00 (including evening meal) and Sunday 22 February 2009, 10.00 - 18.00
Led by Roman Krznaric

Six Tuesday evenings
24 February - 31 March 2009, 19.00 - 21.30
Led by Robert Smith

All courses cost £195