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The School of Life
52 exercises designed to open the mind and break through creative blocks.
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60 prompt cards designed to help you rethink your approach to compassion and empathy.
60 prompt cards designed to encourage self reflection and understanding.
52 cards designed to start a dialogue between parents and teenagers.
40 place cards designed to initiate interesting conversation.
52 cards designed to deepen the experience of travel.
The Joys and Sorrows of Parenting promises us a gentle way of staying calm around one of the most arduous yet deeply fulfilling jobs in the world.
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A book to offer guidance, companionship and consolation to the restless insomniac; analysis and philosophy combine to provide comfort on even the longest of sleepless nights.
A guide to a more consoling, humane and in its own way joyful perspective on the complexities of love.
A book to help us navigate the dating process and guide us through the joys and anxieties of finding a partner.
This volume explores the way we can easily pine for what is costly and out of reach - and it gently returns us to ourselves, full of new found wonder…
This is a guidebook to the uncharted landscape of niceness, gently leading us around the key themes of this forgotten quality. We learn that niceness is compatible with strength and…
Therapeutic exercises to help couples nurture patience, forgiveness and humour.
A practical and encouraging workbook featuring discussions, exercises and tools to help build confidence.
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An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence.
52 cards designed to initiate conversation about moral dilemmas and ethical discussions.
60 prompt cards designed to help you find confidence.
20 cards designed to encourage conversation.
A bold rethinking of one of humankind’s most important and popular rituals.
Digital Connections contains exercises, questions and prompts designed to coax people into the richest sorts of interactions.
Focus on how to improve your instincts and overcome all obstacles to finding that special someone.
This book takes us on a journey into our deepest, most elusive selves and arms us with a set of tools to understand our characters properly.
People who want to express admiration for culture often say it’s valuable ‘for its own sake’. The School of Life disagrees, believing that the world has, up to now, not…
This journal is a tool for self-knowledge; a mirror with which we can study the most elusive and interesting parts of our complex inner selves. n.
This essential guide to philosophy reminds us of the wit, humanity and relevance from great philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Confucius, Lao Tzu and Buddha on thoughts about love, work, anxiety…
A practical guide outlining the benefits of drawing as a therapeutic practice followed by 80 guided drawing exercises as an aid to self-understanding and fulfilment.
This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. This book carefully collects and interprets a selection of the most universally recognisable melancholy…
A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well.
An engaging, alternative history of the world for children, which helps to make sense of today.
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A compassionate and hopeful guide to achieving emotional wellbeing.
A selection of unique and beautiful destinations around the world, which offer powerful new perspectives on life.
A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.
A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.
A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements.
A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer.
A practical guide to finding fulfilling work by understanding yourself.
An outline for a new kind of wedding ceremony free from theology, with new rituals designed to prepare us for modern marriage.
An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.
A linen bound blank notebook.
A linen bound notebook
A guide to confronting modern social situations with confidence and grace.
This book examines psychotherapy: what the needs are in all of us to which it caters; the methods by which it addresses these needs - and what the outcome of…
An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our…
This book is a guide to better understanding our younger selves in order to shape who we wish to be in the future. It explores to what extent we can…
Accessible philosophy for children; a collection of important concepts from 25 famous thinkers, contextualised in relatable everyday scenarios.
This is a set of twenty beautiful cards, each containing a short essay on a key concept in psychotherapy, creating a pack that offers a perfect introduction to the subject.
This set of cards is designed to gently remind us that we are far stronger than we imagine.
School Of Life
