The School of Life

Making time for what really matters Our lives are so busy and frenetic; we are always forgetting to make time for what really matters.  To make sure our priorities are well set this year, we’ve created a finely crafted glass...

A Toolkit for Conversations It isn’t easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to have happened by chance. Far from it – we believe a great conversation always starts with someone asking a great...

A Toolkit for Relationships We often suffer in relationships because we don’t know how to talk.  We feel there is no good excuse to raise certain questions - and so we miss out on conversations that might have rescued us....

It isn’t always easy for families to relate, but good conversation can play a part in building a strong connection between generations. Inside this box you will find 100 carefully composed questions designed to get you into imaginative, thought-provoking conversations...

When we try to imagine who we should ideally be with, we're often hopeful but also a bit vague: we might say we long for someone 'fun', 'nice' or 'cute'. But it can help to focus the picture a little,...

A tool to decide whether your relationship has a future. The decision whether we should stay or leave a tricky relationship is among the most challenging any of us has to make. It is difficult principally because every relationship, even...

Projects Every good life should be rich in projects: new approaches to how to get things done. Our projects might be for novels, businesses, film scripts, children, trips, home decoration schemes or political ambitions. What unites all projects is that...

Night Thoughts During the day, there are so many distractions: a spread sheet, the laundry, the news, rushing from one thing to the next. But at night, when the rest of the world is quiet, we at last have an...

Finding a job we can love and that makes use of our talents is the single greatest challenge we face. Unsurprisingly, many of us regularly hit career crises: moments of intense anxiety about finding our true vocation in the time...

We too often assume that we must accept the levels of confidence we currently possess. However, confidence is not a given: it is a quality we can learn about and develop in ourselves. These confidence prompt cards keep a variety...

Almost all of us feel, in private, that we're really quite odd, by which we mean: not like anyone else we know. But our picture of what is normal is in fact - very often - way out of line...

A set of calming prompt cards that offer perspective and help us to find serenity. It isn’t that we ever forget the value of calm, just that losing our composure is a constant risk. Every day brings with it new...

A set of cards which display beautiful photographs of life’s small pleasures. The accompanying text, on the reverse of each card, works with the image to create a gentle reminder of those small pleasures which we sometimes overlook. Beauty in...

20 Menus with 12 questions per menu, across varying themes - to foster friendship and bring meals to life. We typically spend a lot of time getting the food right when we invite others over for a meal, but in...