This Autumn, Elif will be in conversation with Professor Tanya Byron for a conversation reflecting on her latest book, her career as a novelist and public speaker, and the practice and power of storytelling. Join us for an evening celebrating Elif’s work and the unique ability of stories to shape and transform our lives.

Our conference aims to transform lives and build the best kinds of connections. It is designed to equip participants with a toolkit of Emotional Skills that can revolutionise relationships, careers and self-understanding.

In this highly interactive masterclass, Kasia 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.

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.

Choosing a partner is one of the most consequential and tricky decisions we will ever make.

A toolkit for finding a job to satisfy both our emotional and our material needs.

The difference between success and failure often hangs on a humiliatingly small and elusive trait that standard education never touches: confidence.

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).

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

This class equips us with the tools to succeed on our own terms, which may be quite different from those of society.

Learn how to make sounder, wiser decisions whilst reducing the stress of difficult choices. 

It is not inevitable that love must fizzle out; this happens when it has not been wisely managed.

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.

This is a class to help us decide whether we should keep working at a relationship or quit.

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.

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.

This class provides a toolkit to helps us triumph over free-floating or intense anxiety.

Delve into the myths which surround creative practices and discover strategies for inventive thinking.

October 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.

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.

Learn how to be more patient, unruffled and at ease with life’s setbacks and irritants.

One of our gravest errors we make around relationships is to imagine that they aren’t things we can get wiser or better at.

Learn how to find a career to fulfill both your material and psychological needs in this one-day workshop.

Emotional Intelligence is the quality that enables us to negotiate the central problems in our relationships.

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.

Learn key skills for improving your habits of communication and boost productivity in the process.

Develop an authentic leadership style that inspires commitment and gets results.

Discover the psychological traits of business innovation and explore the trends of entrepreneurial success.