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the school
of life conference
barcelona
9 –11
october 2020
The School
of Life conference
Ne w York —
4– 6 oc t ober 2019
theschooloflife.com
What to Expect Our conference is hugely memorable and distinctive. For a start, you are not being taught in entirely standard ways. The experts on stage don’t merely lecture to a passive audience; they invite almost continuous interaction, getting participants to look inside themselves, to complete a variety of psychological exercises and to share their stories with others. Talks are peppered with films, pieces of music and visual prompts; all the senses are properly stimulated to keep the mind fresh and receptive. Furthermore, there is an enormous emphasis on friendship. We are not merely seated quietly on our own, isolated from other participants. We are guided to mingle, form smaller and larger groups and reveal meaningful things to one another. It is impossible to leave after three days without having made quite a few firm friends the school of life conference 1
Programme
D e ta i l s
theschooloflife.comDay 1 — Friday
Emotional Education,
Self-Knowledge, Sociability
We begin with a look at what emotional mind, paying particular attention to the past and
intelligence is, how it can be taught – and what its subterranean influence on the present.
we can acquire of it in the days ahead. We consider
Next, we consider sociability. We admit to our
our particular position in history: living in an
longing for sincere connection with others, but
age obsessed with romantic fulfilment and career
also to the challenges of finding this. We learn
success – and we propose that The School of Life
about the art of good vulnerability, about ways to
has a distinctive set of answers to the disapoint-
listen to others fruitfully and how to overcome
ments and dreams of our time.
barriers to intimacy.
We define ourselves as an organisation suspicious
We teach strategies that help remove excessive
of that tricky word ‘happiness’, but profoundly
superficial contact from our lives, and put all these
interested in ‘fulfilment’, a richer term that is more
into practice at a social event with our newfound
alive to the real complexities of existence.
acquaintances to close the day.
We identify that a core task of emotional
intelligence is to achieve self-knowledge. To this
end, we take you on a journey around your own
the school of life conference 3Day 2 — Saturday Morning
Relationships:
Choosing Partners, Relationship
Skills, Emotional Maturity
On our second day, we study why we have the humour and how to deal with sexual conflicts and
‘types’ we do – and how our early experiences give awkward desires.
us scripts of how and whom we can love. We learn
We don’t evade the darker side of love. We look at
that there are always more possible partners than
the notion of good and bad compromises and
we initially believe and that we can broaden our
usefully complicate the way we are looking at the
unconscious scripts of whom we can love by
choices before us. We’re reminded that many of the
understanding our past more clearly.
answers we need are within us already, waiting for
We also look at the techniques that can make the correct tool to extract them.
relationships work in the long term. The School
of Life firmly believes that love is ultimately a skill,
not an emotion. We learn about how to com-
municate, how not to sulk, how to allow others to
get close to us, how to understand and explain our
distinctive way of feeling loved, how to forgive and
be forgiven, how to negotiate conflicts through
the school of life conference 4Day 2 — Saturday Afternoon
Work, Confidence, Failure
After a convivial lunch, we return to consider our We consider that the workplace is an inherently
relationship to our working lives. Unlike other emotional area, where maturity is needed as much
generations, where work was accepted as a as – if not more than – the technical skills we’re
necessary source of misery, today we often want more commonly taught.
our work to deliver fulfilment, an expansion of
We then pay particular attention to the idea of
our personalities and meaning. Not only does our
confidence. The difference between success and
psychological engagement matter, but our level
failure often hangs on this almost humiliatingly
of psychological skill does as well. Nowadays,
small and elusive concept that standard education
we are primarily working with our minds, and
never touches. We spend vast amounts of time
our emotional state matters greatly to our level
acquiring confidence in narrow professional fields,
of motivation and success.
but we overlook the primordial need to acquire a
Companies are therefore increasingly spending freer ranging variety of confidence which can serve
a lot of time, effort, and money to make sure that us across a range of tasks in professional, but also
the workplace feels supportive, that people are in our personal life.
psychologically in the right frame of mind.
the school of life conference 5Day 3 — Sunday Morning Culture, Calm, Meaning, Happiness Calm has a natural and deep appeal. Most of us long to be more patient, unruffled, at ease and capable of reacting with quiet good humour to life’s setbacks and irritants. But we are often still only at the very beginning of knowing how to be calm. This morning will give us a range of the most effective answers. Next, we consider meaning. A meaningful life is close to, but at points importantly different from, a happy life. It draws upon and exercises our higher capacities, for example, tenderness,care, connection, self-understanding, sympathy, intelligence and creativity. We investigate how to orientate our lives in a more meaningful direction. In our final hours together, we go back over the journey we have been on and recap its most fundamental lessons. the school of life conference 6
Timetable
Friday 9 October Saturday 10 October Sunday 11 October
14.00 Doors Open & Welcome 9.00 Doors open 9.00 Doors Open
15.00 Introduction, The Problems of Our Minds, 9.30 Relationships 9.30 Calm & Culture
Solutions to Self-Knowledge
11.00 Break 11.00 Break
17.00 Break
11.30 Relationships Continued 11.30 Meaning & Happiness
17.30 Sociability
13.00 Lunch 13.00 Close
19.15 Close & Drinks Reception
14.00 Work & Confidence
16.00 Break
16.30 Failure
18.00 Close
the school of life conference 7Course Leaders
A L A I N D E B O T T O N is the founder and R A U L A P A R I C I is the Faculty Lead at S A R A H S T E I N L U B R A N O began work
Creative Director of The School of Life. Alain The School of Life. He also works as a coach, at The School of Life helping create some of the
was born in Zurich, Switzerland and now lives in consultant and facilitator and teaches on the earliest YouTube videos. She has now found a
London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have Postgraduate Coaching Programme at Birkbeck, natural home in our content team, where she
been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ University of London. combines her love of intellectual ideas, emotional
wisdom, and creative media.
He’s written on love, travel, architecture and With a diverse back-ground which includes
literature, including the titles How Proust a career in the fitness industry, a BA in English Sarah is currently reading for a DPhil in
Can Change Your Life and The Consolations Literature and an MA in Critical Theory, he likes Political Theory at Oxford University, studying
of Philosophy. His books have been bestsellers to match academic insights with real life wisdom. the relationship between emotion and politics
in 30 countries and his latest, titled The School He has a particular interest in psychoanalytic in democracies. She holds a bachelor’s degree
of Life: An Emotional Education was published concepts and is generally curious about the from Harvard College and an MPhil in Political
by The School of Life Press. human condition. Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge
University. Prior to joining The School of Life,
she made films, and worked as a prison tutor,
student welfare officer, and obituary writer.
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