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The School of Life is designed to help you live a calmer, wiser, more fulfilled life. Select the area you wish to improve in and discover
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Inside The School of Life classroom:
An Evening on Grief and Sorrow with Julia Samuel
On Wednesday 8 May, join renowned psychotherapist and bereavement counsellor Julia Samuel as she leads a compassionate and supportive discussion of what it means to lose someone you love.
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How to Speak Power: Understanding Verbal Power Dynamics
In this highly interactive masterclass on Saturday 22 June, Kazia Urbaniak & Ruben Flores will help participants to understand the complexities that lie at the heart of our most entrenched conflicts and suggest ways we can deal with them through forthright and fearless speech.
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Forthcoming Classes and Workshops:
Tuesday 26 March - Evening Class
How to Develop Self-Knowledge
Self-knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions - particularly around love and work.
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Saturday 6 April - Afternoon Class
How to Fail
Our society knows so much about preparing for success; and yet it pays recklessly little attention to the far more likely and urgent matter: how we can handle failure with dignity, understanding and wisdom.
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Sunday 7 April - One-Day Workshop
Improving Your Emotional Intelligence
In this One-Day Workshop we learn the core skills of Emotional Intelligence including why our minds have a hard time understanding themselves, how to map and understand our anxieties and how to make sense of the hurts and resentments we carry.
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YouTube
How to Avoid Being a Bore
New video on our YouTube channel
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How to Avoid Being a Bore
We might assume that people are either interesting or boring by nature. Far from it, being boring to others is a very avoidable mistake; and it is open to all of us to learn the art of proving interesting.
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The Book of Life
On Trying to Control the Future
New article on The Book of Life
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On Trying to Control the Future
The temptation, when we are worried, is to direct our determined intelligence to trying fully to anticipate whatever may be coming for us down the line. We try to strip the unknown of its surprises; we seek, quite understandably, to nothing less than control the future.
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The School of Life for Business
Learning & Development programme teaching 20 core emotional skills for the workplace.
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Therapy
Psychotherapy, couple counselling and career counselling.
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Marriage from The School of Life
A more realistic, intelligent and psychological route to marriage.
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