What is The School of Life?
The School of Life is a global organisation devoted to teaching you how to lead a more fulfilled life. We offer insights in the key ingredients of emotional well-being: how to form good relationships, identify a satisfying career, minimise anxiety, acquire confidence and connect properly with friends.
All our services are available around the world in digital format - via books, films, articles, online classes and online psychotherapy.
Out Now: The Good Enough Parent
Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of lessons, including ideas on how to say ‘no’ to a child one adores, how to look beneath the surface of ‘bad’ behaviour to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, how to encourage open self-expression, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence. Importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not required.
"Brilliant. The perfect combination of frank, compassionate and useful. As I read it, I was willing the words to be logged in my mind forever." Clemmie Telford, Writer, Podcaster and Content Creator
Explore What's New
Browse what has just arrived in our shop, including 'Varities of Melancholy': a compassionate guide to our sombre moods.
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Discover our most popular books, card sets, gifts and games on topics ranging from sex and relationships to careers and anxiety.
Intelligent Children's Books
Know a parent, or have children yourself? Discover books and tools to help us raise resilient, emotionally intelligent kids.
Browse All Books
We specialise in thoughtful, honest, (and often humorous) books, written to captivate and console. Browse our full range.
Play with Us
Discover games and kits made to bring you closer to your friends, your family, your partner or simply yourself.
Book Virtual Tickets
Delve deeper into your topic of choice with an interactive virtual class, conversation evening or speaker event from The School of Life.
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Our Virtual Classroom is a hugely enjoyable way to learn our key ideas. Enrol today to experience our teaching, connect with experts and meet like-minded strangers from around the world from the comfort of home.
Become a Friend
Our Friend scheme is our inner-circle, designed to reward and recognise those who are closest to us. A year-long membership, for yourself or gifted to a loved one, includes many benefits and allows us to explore, and return to, every topic offered by The School of Life.
Develop Your Team
Our Virtual Business Workshops take your team - wherever they may be - through a range of key emotional skills needed to thrive in the world today; including resilience, calm, endurance and strategic foresight. We build and educate winning teams.