Vanessa King – Making the Most of Your Strengths
What are your greatest strengths and how are you using them in your life? What are the best things about you and how could you bring them out more? Often our focus is on what isn’t right with us. Scientific research shows that becoming more aware of our strengths and using them has lots of […]
5×15, 5 speakers, 15 minutes each
5×15 is back at Conway Hall for this special event featuring 5 speakers with 15 minutes each to speak about their work and lives. Joining us will be the Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh on A Decent Ride; the Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, David Spiegelhalter on the intriguing Sex By Numbers; the […]
Alex City Quiz
In the seven years since its inception the Alex City Quiz has rapidly risen to become the Square Mile’s most popular charitable quiz evening hosted by a cartoon character with an outsize nose. Alex will invite you to test your expertise across the whole gamut of the standard quizzing repertoire (which, let’s face it, is […]
Can the Welfare State Survive?
Andrew Gamble discusses the future of the welfare state and its sustainability. This event will provide you with the unique opportunity to listen, discuss and debate issues of social justice with one of the most prominent thinkers in the field. Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University. He is a joint editor of New […]
The Women’s Equality Party
Equality for women isn’t a women’s issue. When women fulfill their potential, everyone benefits. Equality means better politics, a more vibrant economy, a workforce that draws on the talents of the whole population and a society at ease with itself. The Women’s Equality Party will be a new non-partisan force in British politics bringing together […]
CFI UK Conference: Searching for Satan: Miscarriages of memory, fractured families and Satanic panics
Please note: This event has been moved to a new location. Presented by Centre for Inquiry UK, the British Humanist Association Discover how the unreliability of memory has led to grave miscarriages of justice, including panics about Satanic abuse. Can memories really be ‘recovered’ by therapists? To what extent can we rely on the memories […]
Eminé Ali Rushton – The Balance Plan: Boost your Body and Mind with Ayurveda
A self-development workshop in partnership with Psychologies Magazine (www.psychologies.co.uk) Psychologies’ Beauty and Wellbeing Director Eminé Ali Rushton introduces the principles of Ayurveda – an ancient, sensitive and kind health system that is the ideal antidote to frenzied, modern life. During interactive exercises, learn what your unique constitution says about you (your dosha) and how you […]
Beyond Happiness – with Anthony Seldon
Join us for an inspiring evening with Anthony Seldon as he shares practical ideas for living a more joyful and fulfilling life. In his new book Beyond Happiness, Anthony distinguishes between pleasure, happiness and joy and offers an original approach to making our lives more meaningful and rewarding. About the speaker Sir Anthony Seldon is […]
The Hertha Orgler Memorial Lecture: “I Had a Dream Last Night”
It is common knowledge that we process our day to day experiences at night. We reframe and process them there according to our lifestyle, our personality. Sigmund Freud already mentioned that dreams are directed towards the next day and tone our emotions and expectations towards the future. Alfred Adler, an early follower and co-worker of […]