Generation Rent – London Renters’ Hustings
With private renting now the biggest tenure in London, housing is the number one issue at this year’s Mayoral Election. But there is just one opportunity for the candidates to debate their plans to fix the housing crisis head-to-head, and take questions from ordinary renters. Generation Rent, PricedOut and Renters’ Rights London are organising a […]
Phil Pearl: God and Mental Toughness
Are we crazy to believe in God or crazy not to? Is our Mental Toughness strengthened by belief in a higher power or are we more resilient without faith? Life isn’t easy. How we make sense of existence is crucial to our mental health. Is psychotherapy, philosophy and coaching the solution to life’s problems or […]
Windy Dryden: A Single Session Integrated Approach
Sometimes coaches and therapists will only have one session with a client. At this meet up Professor Dryden will explain and demonstrate how it is possible to effectively work with clients in a single session, achieving realistic but positive results with a view to future therapeutic work. Professor Dryden will cover the basis of this […]
Nicola Martin: How to deal with Difficult People and Win
The world is full of difficult people; there’s the manipulators, bullies, control freaks, and back stabbers just to name a few. Perhaps the best way to deal with difficult people is to just avoid them. Unfortunately for most of us this is not practical – Therefore we need to devise strategies to diffuse these energy […]
Ben Judah: This is London
In This Is London, Ben Judah turns his keen reporter’s eye on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of the city’s immigrants – from the richest to the poorest – to discover the complex and varied individuals who are making London what it is today. He’s had dinner with oligarchs and meetings with foreign […]
Comrades in Conscience
One hundred years to the day since general military conscription passed into law in Great Britain, the courageous men who resisted the compulsory call to arms, and the women who supported them, are remembered in an evening of differing perspectives – through drama, song, and speakers with particular knowledge of the subject. This Evil Thing, […]
New Works by Johann Johannsson & Hildur Gudnadottir
“12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann” by Jóhann Jóhannsson – a string quartet written by this Icelandic composer recently acclaimed for his film music – including Theory of Everything, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe, and Sicario for which he has been nominated for an Oscar this year. The quartet […]
Philosophy of History from Kant to Foucault [Fully Booked]
[course now fully-booked] Summer Term 2016, Tuesdays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 12th April Course Tutor: Meade McCloughan. How should we, as historical beings, understand ourselves and our place in history? Are we moving forward, and if so, how and to what? Or should we be looking back, to understand how we got to […]
Democracy
Summer Term 2016, Tuesdays, 15:00 – 17:00, ten weeks starting 12th April Course Tutor: Anja Steinbauer. Plato hated it, Bertrand Russell loved it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought it couldn’t be done: The greatest minds are divided when it comes to the value of democracy. This course focuses on the meaning, the contexts, the pitfalls and benefits, as […]