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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:
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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Spring School 2019
The best of The School of Life condensed into a single, unforgettable week. Embark on a rich and enlightening voyage, discovering how to make lasting, meaningful change across every aspect of your life.
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Forthcoming Classes and Workshops:
Friday 1 February - Evening Class
How to Find Love
Choosing a partner is one of the trickiest and most consequential decisions we will ever make. This class equips us with a crucial set of insights to help us make safer, more imaginative and more effective choices in love.
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Monday 4 February - Evening Class
How to Be Confident
How to Be Confident teaches us a range of confidence-inducing ideas to allow us to escape the shackles of excessive hesitancy and compliance.
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Tuesday 5 February - Evening Class
How to Develop Self-Knowledge
How to Develop Self-Knowledge gives us a newly clarified sense of the distinctive nature of our personalities, what we need to watch out for and what our priorities and potential might be.
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YouTube
Why We Are Mean to Those We Love
New video on our YouTube channel
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Why We Are Mean to Those We Love
Even people who are normally very nice tend to be, from close up within relationships, rather difficult and complicated. This shouldn't surprise us. There's simply nothing harder than trying to live alongside another human for the long-term. We should dare to understand the ways in which love makes us a little monstrous.
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The Book of Life
On Knowing Who One Is
New article on The Book of Life
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On Knowing Who One Is
Many of us are wandering the earth, accomplished in many ways, capable of fulfilment at points, but with a fundamental wound that stops us from becoming who we might be: we don’t quite know who we are.
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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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