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 ...
Games For Grown-Ups - The School of Life
WEBThe games are an invitation to cast aside reserve and get in touch with neglected imaginative aspects of ourselves. They are a reminder that friendship doesn’t only require talking; it thrives just as much on the light-hearted but significant business of playing together. 40 cards | 134 x 96 x 23mm | 2+ players. 40 activities to draw us away ...
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.
Marcel Proust - The School of Life
WEBMarcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer responsible for what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu – which has 1,267,069 words in it; double those in War and Peace. Marcel Proust (seated), with Robert de Flers (left) and Lucien Daudet (right), ca. 1894
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 ...
The Dilemmas Game - The School of Life
WEBThe Dilemmas Game invites you to flex your moral muscles and compare your problem-solving skills with those of your friends and family. Players must propose different solutions to 52 common dilemmas, using analogies or drawing on real-life experiences to explain their answers. It’s a fun and enlightening way of practising for the inevitable ...
The Therapy Game - The School of Life
WEBBut like many good games (ones about flying or being a detective for example), it gives us a chance to try out, entertainingly but safely, one of the most interesting sides of a great profession. The Therapy Game offers us a rare opportunity to listen and speak to one another at truly fulfilling length and depth. The cards cover five categories:
Online Psychotherapy - The School of Life
WEBOnline psychotherapy at The School of Life is a truly global service which assists clients from over 40 countries. Our highly skilled and qualified practitioners help you get to the root of issues and will give you new clarity on your past and your present. Our online psychotherapists use the ideas of The School of Life – found in our YouTube ...
Why it’s Good To Be a Loser - The School of Life
WEBSep 28, 2020 · Why it’s Good To Be a Loser. Our societies have advanced tendencies to label certain people ‘winners’ and others – logically enough – ‘losers’. This suggests that life might be a unitary, singular race, at the conclusion to which one could neatly rank all the competitors from highest to lowest. However, life is really made up of a ...
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