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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:
Life Lessons with MARINA
On Friday 5 April we will be welcoming platinum-selling artist MARINA for a wise and insightful conversation about music, her upcoming album, the creative process, and the lessons learnt along the way.
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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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Forthcoming Classes and Workshops:
Thursday 21 March - Evening Class
The Meaning of Life
What we call ‘crises of meaning’ are generally moments where others’ visions of what is meaningful for us run up against our own tastes and interests. We have to work out what counts as meaningful in our eyes.
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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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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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