How much do programmes cost?

The price depends on the format, length and number of attendees. At the time of writing, most of our UK events are priced as follows. Please check our website for up-to-date pricing information for specific events. Virtual Classes - £40 Friends / £55 Standard* Virtual One-Day Workshops - £99 Friends / £135 Standard* Virtual Professional Workshops - £80 Friends / £90 Standard* Special Events - from £15* Virtual Conversations - £10 Standard / Selected events free for Friends* *Plus booking fee

Do you offer concession prices for your events?

We offer a 10% ticket price reduction on virtual events under £60 for Students with valid ID, over-65's, un-waged and people with disabilities. To claim your discount please email classroom@theschooloflife.com for the codes to use at checkout. Please note that we may ask for your ID for proof of eligibility before we issue the code.

Who should I contact if I have another issue with Friends Membership?

Please email friends@theschooloflife.com.

FAQs
Workshops & Events FAQs

Workshops & Events FAQs

We currently offer a variety of online Virtual Programmes, these include: Classes, Workshops, Special Events, Friend Conversation Evenings and Professional Workshops. For more information and a full, up-to-date list of our London virtual programme, please visit the Events section of our website, where you can browse by event theme or format, or our Calendar, where you can browse by date.

For companies we currently offer Team Workshops virtually. You can read more about these here. Please email [email protected] for more information.

The price depends on the format, length and number of attendees. At the time of writing, most of our UK events are priced as follows. Please check our website for up-to-date pricing information for specific events.

Virtual Classes – £40 Friends / £55 Standard*
Virtual One-Day Workshops – £99 Friends / £135 Standard*
Virtual Professional Workshops – £80 Friends / £90 Standard*
Special Events – from £15*
Virtual Conversations – £10 Standard / Selected events free for Friends*

*Plus booking fee

We offer a 10% ticket price reduction on virtual events under £60 for Students with valid ID, over-65’s, un-waged and people with disabilities. To claim your discount please email [email protected] for the codes to use at checkout. Please note that we may ask for your ID for proof of eligibility before we issue the code.

Our current virtual classes, workshops, conversations and events are hosted on Zoom. Once you have purchased your ticket you will receive an email the day before the event with all the essential information you will need including the Zoom invitation link and password. Please make sure you have given us your correct email address. If you have brought a ticket on the behalf of another person please make sure you forward them the email if you have not provided the other attendees email. Please note that our London classroom is currently closed.

Virtual Classes last two and a half hours. The first 15-30 minutes is for on-boarding (to join and connect to Zoom) and an icebreaker, followed by a two-hour class, with a short break.

Currently we offer morning and evening weekday and weekend classes. Please visit our Calendar where you can browse by date. The evening classes generally run from 18:30 to 21:00 GMT/BST, the morning classes from 9:30 to 12:00 GMT/BST. Please note it is your responsibility to double-check whether you are booking a morning or evening class at the time of booking. We cannot be held responsible if you mistakenly book a morning class instead of an evening class (or vice versa) and are then not able to attend on the day due to other commitments. To find out more about our ticket transfer, exchange or refund policy please see Cancellations, Transfers and Exchanges.

The easiest way to book a ticket for any of our UK virtual events is to visit the events section of our website here, You can book and pay online. An e-ticket will be issued to you by email (via Eventbrite). Please enter your details, especially your email address, carefully – we cannot be responsible for you not receiving your ticket because you have failed to enter your email address correctly. If you are having problems booking online, please email [email protected]. To book events at our international campuses, please use the drop-down menu in the top-right corner of this page.

Yes, simply select each event you wish to attend and add it to your shopping basket. All selected events will be there at the checkout.

Yes, you can book more than one ticket for each event. When booking you can assign any additional tickets to your friends and provide their name and contact details. To find out more about our transfer policy on existing tickets, please see Cancellations, Transfers and Exchanges.

Yes, you are able to amend or add the names of each individual that you have bought tickets for. If you did not do this at checkout please select the ‘manage/edit’ option in your confirmation email to add these details.

We aim to provide all information about the start time/location of our events on our website and e-tickets at the time of booking. In the unlikely event this has not been possible, we will email you prior to the event with this information. Please make sure you have given us your correct email address.

You are not required to have read anything before the event. The essential information email that you receive before the class contains a workbook which accompanies the class. If you have a printed you may want to print the workbook, however, you can also have it downloaded on your desktop and you can edit the PDF.

The School of Life is dedicated to supporting participants to explore life’s big questions. We do so in a virtual classroom environment. For more information about private therapy sessions, please see the Therapy section of our website.

Ticket transfers (changing the name of the attendee to the class) are available at any time on classes, specials, friends events, one-day workshops and L&D workshops at no additional cost. To do this please use the ‘manage/edit’ link provided in your confirmation email. We regret that transfers are not available on our Schools or Conferences due to the nature of the course.

If you would like to exchange your virtual class, one-day workshop, L&D workshop or friends event ticket to another event or alternative time – you are able to do so for a £5 fee via your Eventbrite account up to 1 hour before the class begins. Please login to your account on Eventbrite via your ticket confirmation email and click on ‘transfer’ to select the class you would like to exchange your ticket for. Please note that if the alternative event is of lower value than the original booking, we are not able to refund the difference. If the event price is higher than the original event then you will need to pay the difference in addition to the £5 exchange fee. We are unable give exchanges on our 5-day Schools, Specials and Conferences due to the nature of the event.

We are unable to give any refunds on any of our virtual classes, virtual specials, virtual one-day workshops or virtual L&D workshops.

5-Day Schools and Conversation Evenings: Refunds are available up to 30 days before the event start date.

Conferences: Refunds are available up to 60 days before the event starts.

To request a refund within these parameters please use the manage/edit link in your confirmation email and select the ‘request a refund’ button.

Friendship is valid for one year from the date of purchase. We will remind you to renew close to the expiration date, but will not automatically renew your subscription.

Please check your spam folder. If you still can’t find the email one day after purchase please email [email protected]

Friends benefits currently apply only to The School of Life London.

The members discount for TSOL events applies to Classes, Professional Workshops and Special Events and our range of retail products available to buy online (members can purchase at the discounted ticket price). The 15% retail discount is available on all full price products on www.theschooloflife.com, subject to availability.

Please email [email protected]

Workshops & Events FAQs

Workshops & Events FAQs

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