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Haikus and Appreciation
The most revered poem in Japanese literature was written around 1686 by Matsuo Basho — and is, famously, only three…
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Reasons to be Hopeful
An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn’t short of darkness, there can be few more urgent priorities…
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On Self-Hatred
A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We…
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How to Overcome Your Childhood
A guide to understanding, and liberating ourselves from, our past. To an extraordinary and humbling extent, who we are as adults is determined by events that happened to…
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Dating Cards
A set of 52 question cards to spark insightful and playful encounters. Great dates are made up of great conversations: ones where we find out more about one…
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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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Connect
A card game to foster connection and closeness We tend to chat all the time with our partners, but often not about what really counts – the sort…
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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 each…
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The Career Workbook
A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling. The Career Workbook is a guided journal designed to help you…
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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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Anxiety
Far more than we tend to realise, we’re all – in private – deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether…
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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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Henri Rousseau
The artist Henri Rousseau — who had no formal training, and who only began painting seriously in his forties —…
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The Call of the Ocean
The water is calm, the horizon endless, the air warm. As we’re being invited to realise, this is our true…
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What Would Paradise Look Like?
In all parts of the world, in pretty much all eras (save our own), our collective imaginations have liked to…
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Relationships
Why We All End up Marrying Our Parents
One of the most superficially familiar but enduringly striking (even shocking) ideas bequeathed to us by psychoanalysis is that we…
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Self-Knowledge
How Music Can Heal Us
Intuitively, we know that music can heal but rarely is it asked to do so as directly and explicitly as…
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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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