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The Wisdom of Liming
On the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, there’s a skill which is widely revered, which has been…
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Given that we spend so much of our lives at work, we are often exhausted and out of ideas when it comes to our free time. At the School of Life, we believe everyone could do with a little instruction into how to make the best possible use of the time we have to ourselves – and offer a range of products and services to ensure that we get the most out of our leisure pursuits like travel, reading, culture and nature.
Tools for Life-Affirming Leisure
From introductions to history’s greatest thinkers and ideas, to suggestions for what to do on our days off, we offer a range of tools for making the most of our downtime.
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The Journeys & Adventures Collection
A gift set to help you make the most of your time off, featuring How to Travel, Travel Therapy and Everyday Adventures Life, we know, is short –…
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A More Exciting Life
A guide to achieving the more joyful and interesting life that we know is within our grasp One of the things we all deeply crave, and all richly…
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Great Thinkers
Ideas that shaped the world Great Thinkers is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture – drawn from the works of…
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Travel Therapy Cards
52 cards to deepen and transform the experience of travel Going travelling can be one of life’s greatest activities – but often, we fail to deepen the experience…
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Confidence in 40 Images
An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence The difference between success and failure often comes down to an…
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The Arts & Ideas Collection
A gift set to help you appreciate art and culture, featuring A History of Ideas, A Therapeutic Atlas, A Therapeutic Library and Art Against Despair Many of us…
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Retreats
The School of Life is holding a series of 4-day Retreats designed to help you heal from emotional challenges in an atmosphere of friendship, learning and discovery. Our Retreats are designed to offer participants a holistic approach to healing emotional pain through a mixture of ideas and therapeutic interventions in an atmosphere that is warm, creative and focused on change.
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Reasons Not to Give Up
In one of the upper rooms of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford hangs a picture by a minor Danish nineteenth…
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The Pleasures of the Underground
There are moods – of dissatisfaction and loneliness, panic and despair – when the very best counsel we might be…
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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age
There’s an apparent paradox in the way that the longer we have lived, the more appreciation we tend to develop…
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What We Might Learn From The Dandies of The Congo
In most places on earth, it would be considered highly bizarre to meet a goat herder, living at the end…
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What Should A Good Therapist Do For Us?
We hear a lot of background noise about the benefits of psychotherapy. But it can be hard to get a…
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