The School of Life | Your Path to Mental Wellbeing
WEBThe School of Life is holding a series of 4-day retreats designed to help you heal from emotional challenges in an atmosphere of friendship, learning and discovery. Our group therapy sessions run online every week and are a chance to talk to other participants at The School of Life – in the presence of a therapist-moderator – about whatever ...
The Psychology of Cross-Dressing - The School of Life
WEBCross-dressing (and here we refer particularly to men dressing up as women) has tended to have a bad reputation. The idea of a man taking pleasure in putting on a pair of stockings has traditionally been seen as laughable, pitiful – and plain sinister. It was usually assumed that a marriage would almost certainly break up the day a wife found ...
The Confessions Game - The School of Life
WEBThis confessions game to play with friends guarantees that the warmest, most fascinating conversations won’t have to be left to chance. With the help of a dice and some cards, the game asks participants to answer a series of questions around career, sex, money, relationships, family, gently inviting everyone to share important bits of themselves in an intimate and playful atmosphere.
Relationship Support & Advice | The School of Life
WEBWhen it comes to relationships, many of us feel ‘stuck’: unable to find the sort of love we need, or to make our needs understood by our partners. In large part, our troubles stem from a myth that loving another human should be something we all naturally know how to do. Far from it; at The School of Life, we believe that love is a skill ...
Know Yourself — Socrates and How to Develop Self-Knowledge
WEBIn Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates famously declared that the unexamined life was not worth living. Asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: ‘ Know yourself.’. Knowing yourself has extraordinary prestige in our culture. It has been framed as quite literally the meaning of life.
The School of Life YouTube - The School of Life
WEBThe School of Life’s global online psychotherapy, available in over 40 countries, offers expert assistance from skilled practitioners to help you gain clarity and understanding about your past and present. We work with you to equip your employees with the emotional skills they need to thrive at work – and grow as people.
100 Questions Game - The School of Life
WEB1. Announce to your friends that you have a curious new exercise to propose. Laugh a little at the expense of these cards to ease any awkwardness. 2. Pick a card from anywhere in the box and ask your companions to address the question on it with sincerity and thoughtfulness. 3. Take calculated risks at self-revelation.
An Emotional Education - Hardback Book | The School of Life
WEBFrom the reigning master of popular philosophy, The School of Life: An Emotional Education is an essential look at the skill set that defines our modern lives. Paperback | 215 x 133 mm | 336 pages | 32 Illustrations. How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century—an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence.
Wu Wei – Doing Nothing 無爲 - The School of Life
WEBWu wei means – in Chinese – non-doing or ‘doing nothing’. It sounds like a pleasant invitation to relax or worse, fall into laziness or apathy. Yet this concept is key to the noblest kind of action according to the philosophy of Daoism – and is at the heart of what it means to follow Dao or The Way. According to the central text of ...
A Therapeutic Journey book - The School of Life
WEBA Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments. Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of ...
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