Relationships
What Role Do You Play in Your Relationship?
One of the stranger but more useful suggestions of psychotherapy — and in particular, a branch of it known as…
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The School of Life is a company offering a wide range of products and services including Books, an App, Online Psychotherapy and Training (for Individuals and for Organisations).
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At the heart of nearly all of our problems lies a lack of self-knowledge. We’ve developed a range of tools to help you build up a more accurate sense of who you really are – and who you might become.
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A More Loving World
A book to encourage compassion and forgiveness, showing us how we can work towards a better and kinder world. The modern world is richer, safer and more connected…
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Art Against Despair
An inspiring selection of images offering us hope and comfort, reminding us that we are not alone in our sorrow. One of the most unexpectedly useful things we…
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Help with Relationships
Love is less an emotion than a skill: one we must work at if we wish to keep it alive. We offer a range of tools to help you not only find love, but maintain and deepen it over a lifetime.
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100 Questions: Love Edition
A set of 100 question cards to spark meaningful conversations around love and relationships. We often suffer in relationships because we don’t know how to talk. We feel…
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Therapy
The School of Life Therapy
The School of Life offers online therapy as a resource to help people feel connected and supported all around the world.
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Couple’s Workbook
Homework to help love last Love is a skill, not just an emotion – and in order for us to get good at it, we have to practice,…
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We spend most of our lives at work – so shouldn’t languish in a role we find unsatisfying. We provide tools to help you choose the perfect career and succeed in whatever you’ve chosen.
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How to Think More Effectively
A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a…
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Teamwork Game
Exercises to build better team dynamics In order to work well together, people need more than just technical skills; they need to get to know and understand…
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Help Finding Calm
Few skills in life are more neglected, or more vital, than the ability to remain calm. We offer tools to help you alleviate stress and anxiety and find inner peace.
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Calm
Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a…
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Calm Prompt Cards
60 prompt cards designed to help you find perspective on life’s sorrows and regrets. Every day brings with it temptations to lose our tempers: the behaviour of partners,…
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Self-Knowledge
Self-Archaeology
The most fundamental idea at the heart of modern psychotherapy is that in order to heal ourselves from our neuroses…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Parents Bully Their Children
One of the strangest and saddest phenomena of psychological life is that there are parents, too many parents, who end…
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Calm
On Being ‘Triggered’
The phenomenon of being ‘triggered’ — though it may, at times, be applied too liberally — sits on top of…
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Self-Knowledge
How to Figure Out What You Really, Really Think
It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Are All Addicts
When we think of an ‘addict’, certain stock images come to mind: a homeless person in the park sniffing glue,…
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Resources for Parents and Teachers
We’ve created a library of resources to help children develop the emotional and interpersonal skills that traditional education doesn’t always teach, starting them on the journey toward a healthy and fulfilled adulthood.
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