It’s a peculiarity of modern life that the less essential and transferable a life-skill is, the easier it is to find someone who can teach it. There are no end of instructors offering to teach us how to make the perfect dumpling, or to knit a scarf (lovely as both these things are)...and virtually none who can help us become more confident, well-rounded human beings.
That’s one of the reasons why The School of Life was set up: to teach the life-skills that really matter. This year, we want to help you unlock a better version of yourself – by teaching you the vital emotional skills that allow you to fulfil your true potential.
The School of Life at Work are offering a collection of three two hour workshops, designed to start your journey to self-improvement and career satisfaction in 2025. We’ve chosen three crucial skills – self-awareness, purpose, and confidence – that determine our success and happiness at work and beyond. Follow the link to book a place in-person or online. | | | Having an accurate sense of our strengths, weaknesses, desires and defects – and, no less crucially, how others perceive the same – isn’t only a career asset: it’s fundamental to a fulfilled life. Our two hour self-awareness workshop walks you through the fundamentals of self-knowledge, demonstrating how it can help to improve our decision making, lower our stress levels, and boost our performance and happiness. | | | This is a journal to help us process our lives; to think more clearly about what we really want, what we are actually feeling and what might be holding us back from our goals. | | | Our lives are crammed so full of short-term obligations – emails, appointments, chores – that unless we have a sense of our ultimate purpose, we’re liable to remain ‘stuck’ in jobs and situations that aren’t right for us. Our two hour purpose workshop will help you reconnect with your personal sources of meaning and construct a long-term plan for achieving your vocation in life. | | | It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. This is a tool for helping us focus on what we need to be fulfilled so that we can direct our energies and thoughts most effectively. | | | At work as in life, the difference between success and failure comes down to the presence – or absence – of a skill called confidence. Our two hour confidence workshop aims to puncture some of the myths around confidence, and teach us the elements and benefits of self-belief. | | | The Confidence Workbook is a book with an explicit and practical purpose: to demonstrate that confidence is not a gift of the gods but a faculty we are all endowed with and that can flourish with the right kind of practice and encouragement. | | | If you book a place on all three workshops, you’ll also receive an annual subscription to The School of Life for free. Learn with thousands of articles, films and exercises covering life’s largest topics; heal with in-the-moment First Aid for difficult moments; and grow into the best possible version of yourself. Make commitments, track your progress, and prioritise your mental health. | | | Follow us on social media: | | | |
