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About Events at The School of Life
Our classes and workshops, professional workshops and special events go straight to the most helpful ideas around the dilemmas of work, relationships, self-knowledge and culture.
If you'd like to learn more about what to expect, take a look at our Classroom FAQs.
July Summer School 2019
July 2019 - The best of The School of Life condensed into a single, unforgettable week. By working within a fixed group led by a core tutor over the week, you'll dive deeper than would be possible in any single class. Join us for a truly transformational vacation for the mind.
How to Talk to Your Children - Philippa Perry in Conversation with Alain de Botton
Join Philippa Perry and Alain de Botton for a conversation about the mistakes we make when talking to our children and the ways we might communicate better.
Learning to Love
This one-off event will be a highly sociable, immersive day consisting of inspiring and consoling lectures, exciting meetings, lively conversation, food and drinks, and interactive games.
Resilience
Overcome setbacks and lay the groundwork for greater flourishing with our hugely popular resilience training.
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How to Find Love
Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make.
How to Identify Your Career Potential
A toolkit for finding a job to satisfy both our emotional and our material needs.
Friends’ Conversation Evening- on the theme of 'Secrets'
This evening, we’ll be discussing secrets: why we have them - and what some of them are? And we’ll also be experiencing the joys of sharing some more private parts of ourselves with new friends (which is sometimes easier than with old ones).
Friends’ Conversation Evening- on the theme of 'Whats the Point of it All?'
This evening is anchored around a question so large most of us either laugh it off or refuse to address it head on: What is the meaning of life?
Friends’ Conversation Evening- on the theme of 'School'
Most of us were, in one way or another, heavily marked by school. We are also liable to have been disappointed by what we experienced there. This month, we ask ourselves questions around what the point of education is, what we would most have wanted to know when we were younger - and what a school should ideally be.
Friends’ Conversation Evening- on the theme of 'Utopia'
We’re often advised not to daydream too much and to focus on the here and now instead. However, many of us have an active side of our minds which loves to dream up better worlds and think of how to improve society. This is an occasion to share our visions and projects for the future.
Friends’ Conversation Evening- on the theme of 'The Body'
The body is a source both of huge delight and of our most fundamental pains and sorrows too. We gather to discuss - with honesty and verve - what bodies mean to us: what are our good and bad physical sides? What do we most like and fear about our bodies?
Friends’ Conversation Evening- on the theme of 'Confessions'
At this Friend's event, we gather for a chance to make and hear confessions around money, relationships, our families and our futures. We’ll learn that we are all, beneath the surface, far more confused, endearing and enticingly mad than we might normally assume.
Late Spring School 2019
May 2019 - The best of The School of Life condensed into a single, unforgettable week. By working within a fixed group led by a core tutor over the week, you'll dive deeper than would be possible in any single class. Join us for a truly transformational vacation for the mind.
Spring School 2019
March 2019 - The best of The School of Life condensed into a single, unforgettable week. By working within a fixed group led by a core tutor over the week, you'll dive deeper than would be possible in any single class. Join us for a truly transformational vacation for the mind.
How to Fail
This class equips us with the tools to succeed on our own terms, which may be quite different from those of society.
How to Be Confident
The difference between success and failure often hangs on a humiliatingly small and elusive trait that standard education never touches: confidence.
Decisiveness
Learn how to make sounder, wiser decisions whilst reducing the stress of difficult choices.
How to Make Love Last
It is not inevitable that love must fizzle out; this happens when it has not been wisely managed.
Bibliotherapy
Our bibliotherapy service identifies a list of books you should read that can answer the most pressing and important questions of your life. A reading prescription to stimulate thought and transformation.
How Culture Can Change Your Life
Music, film, literature and art are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But why?
Stay or Leave?
This is a class to help us decide whether we should keep working at a relationship or quit.
How to Be Sociable
Knowing how to get the most out of the people we meet, and live and work around is fundamental to our chances of a fulfilled life.
How to Develop Self-Knowledge
Self-knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who one is that one can make reliable decisions.
The Meaning of Life
To wonder too intensely about the meaning of life sounds like a faintly ridiculous pastime. But, in truth, the subject is for everyone.
How to Be Serene
This class provides a toolkit to helps us triumph over free-floating or intense anxiety.
How to Enjoy Life
This class alerts us to the beauty and value of things, people and ideas around us.
Creativity
Delve into the myths which surround creative practices and discover strategies for inventive thinking.
The Leadership Series: Innovation
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
The Leadership Series: Supportiveness
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
The Leadership Series: Resilience
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
The Leadership Series: Decisiveness
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
The Leadership Series: Purpose
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
The Leadership Series: Self-Awareness
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
The Leadership Series: Leadership
One-off showcase: we are proud to introduce our new professional workshops designed specifically to meet the needs of senior leaders.
Late Autumn School 2019
October 2018 - The best of The School of Life condensed into a single, unforgettable week. By working within a fixed group led by a core tutor over the week, you'll dive deeper than would be possible in any single class. Join us for a truly transformational vacation for the mind.
August Summer School 2019
August 2018 - The best of The School of Life condensed into a single, unforgettable week. By working within a fixed group led by a core tutor over the week, you'll dive deeper than would be possible in any single class. Join us for a truly transformational vacation for the mind.
The Steps to Calm
Learn how to be more patient, unruffled and at ease with life’s setbacks and irritants.
Making Relationships Work
One of our gravest errors we make around relationships is to imagine that they aren’t things we can get wiser or better at.
Finding A Fulfilling Job
Learn how to find a career to fulfill both your material and psychological needs in this one-day workshop.
Improving Your Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is the quality that enables us to negotiate the central problems in our relationships.
The School of Life Friends - 1 Year Membership
Join our Friends’ Scheme in order to meet and connect with hundreds of other curious, intelligent and fascinating members of the School of Life. We host monthly conversation drinks in central London venues - around the big themes found in our films and books.
£70.00
Communication
Learn key skills for improving your habits of communication and boost productivity in the process.
Leadership
Develop an authentic leadership style that inspires commitment and gets results.