The School of Life
| Traded as | Three 13 Solutions, Campus London LLP, ELOE Limited, STOA Limited. |
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| Founder | Alain de Botton |
| Website | www |
The School of Life is an educational company that offers advice on life issues. It was founded in 2008 and based in branches in London (headquarters), Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Melbourne, Paris, São Paulo, Sydney, Seoul, Taipei and Tel Aviv. The School offers a variety of programmes and services covering finding fulfilling work, mastering relationships, achieving calm, and understanding and changing the world. The School also offers psychotherapy and bibliotherapy services and runs online and physical shops which have been described as "apothecaries for the mind".
The School of Life was founded by philosopher Alain de Botton, in collaboration with a number of writers, artists and educators. The faculty includes philosophers Mark Vernon, Robert Rowland Smith and writer John Armstrong.
The School of Life offers a curriculum of classes teaching emotional intelligence. These explore ways to make work more fulfilling, improve romantic relationships, and face the day-to-day challenges of life, from facing death to relating to one's family. These classes are devised by leading authors, artists, actors and academics, combining their own experiences with ideas from great thinkers of the past to offer participants intelligent and playful ways to interpret the world, and their place within it.
On Sunday mornings The School of Life hosts secular sermons in which cultural figures are invited to give their opinion about "what values we should live by today". These theatrical events are usually held at Conway Hall in London. Past preachers have included Brené Brown on courage, Ken Robinson on education, Grayson Perry on kinky sex, and Paul Mason on capitalism. The Financial Times described the sermons as being "hedged about with all sorts of ironic paraphernalia, designed to reassure the trendy young audience that they are not about to be harangued by a religious zealot".
The School of Life posts films three times a week on its YouTube channel – which has 2.5 million subscribers. The films cover a variety of topics related to emotional intelligence and culture.
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