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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:
One-Day Festival: Learning to Love
Learning to Love will teach us, through a combination of lectures, films, psychological exercises, confession and discussion, a basic toolkit of the most fundamental strategies for navigating the course of love.
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How to Talk to Your Children
A conversation between psychotherapist Philippa Perry and Alain de Botton examining the reasons why we struggle to talk to our children and suggesting ways we can communicate better.
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Forthcoming Classes and Workshops:
Wednesday 20 February - Evening Class
Stay or Leave?
Aside from auditing our attitudes to love, this class also offers a variety of approaches for either improving or exiting relationships.
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Friday 1 March - Evening Class
How to Be Serene
How to Be Serene teaches us a toolkit for how to triumph over moments of exasperation and emotional distress.
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Sunday 3 March - One-Day Workshop
The Steps to Calm
This one-day workshop takes us on a structured journey around the best and most calming ideas from The School of Life curriculum.
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YouTube
Why It's Useful to Think of Yourself As a Sinner
New video on our YouTube channel
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Why It's Useful to Think of Yourself As a Sinner
We're generally taught nowadays to think very well of ourselves - and look with horror at religions' suggestions that we conceive of ourselves as 'sinners'. Yet, paradoxically, thinking of yourself as by nature a little sinful can lie at the origins of some very fine and noble traits of character.
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The Book of Life
Spirituality for People Who Hate Spirituality
New article on The Book of Life
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Spirituality for People Who Hate Spirituality
Whatever our suspicions, spiritual moments are capable of being pinned down, split into their constituent elements and assessed with due regard. One should – and can – get respectfully rational about spirituality.
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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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