COURSE: Mindfulness & Yoga
Come along to our eight week mindfulness & yoga course with Mieke Kreeftenberg Dates: Monday 29th September to Monday 25th November Times: 4pm – 6pm The Idler Academy’s Mindfulness course is...
View ArticleBeyond Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom in Everyday Life. Course with Tim Lott
A six week course with novelist Tim Lott on the best of Eastern philosophy. Starts Tuesday 30th September. Anybody asked to think about Eastern philosophy usually automatically thinks about Eastern...
View ArticleAutumn Foraging and Philosophy Weekend Course, 3-5th October 2014
FEED YOUR MIND and body on the Idler Academy’s Foraging and Philosophy weekend. Over the course of the weekend, you will learn how to forage seaweeds and shell fish as well as from Autumn hedgerows,...
View ArticleAncient Philosophy Day Course, Sunday 2nd November
A day course in ancient philosophy with Mark Vernon. Spend your Sunday at The Idler Academy learning about Socrates, Plato and the ancient schools. Price includes tea & coffee, lunch, afternoon...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Ancient Philosophy with Dr Mark Vernon, September 2014
All you need to know about the philosophical schools of Ancient Greece — and how they can help your daily life — on our six week evening course. Monday 22nd September to Monday 27th October General...
View ArticleTalk: Discovering Thomas Traherne with Jules Evans
Renowned philosopher and writer Jules Evans joins us to discuss the life and work of Thomas Traherne. Thomas Traherne is the great undiscovered treasure of English literature. This 17th century...
View ArticleOnline Course: Beyond Mindfulness with Tim Lott
If you’e eve wanted to explore the intellectual underpinnings of the mindfulness movement, then this is the course for you. Across six video lectures, novelist and journalist Tim Lott relates the story...
View ArticleOnline Course: An Introduction to Ancient Philosophy with Dr Mark Vernon
A six part online course in the philosophy of the ancient Greeks with Dr Mark Vernon. Have you ever wanted to know more about Plato, Aristotle and the rest, but were afraid to ask? Now is your chance...
View ArticleModern Philosophy Day Course, Sunday 16th November
A day course in modern philosophy with Dr Mark Vernon. A lively, day crash course in philosophy, exploring the essentials you need to know about the modern figures from Descartes to Nietzsche, and...
View ArticleTalk: Sigmund Freud – what you need to know
He gave us Freudian slips, the interpretation of dreams, the Oedipus complex, and the idea that sometimes a cigar is not a cigar. But the odd thing about Freud is that although he contributed much to...
View ArticleTalk: Carl Jung – What you need to know
Carl Jung – What you need to know, with Dr Mark Vernon He gave us introverts and extroverts, the collective unconscious, the notion of the New Age, and personality types. A sometime colleague of Freud,...
View ArticleOnline Course: How to be Idle with Tom Hodgkinson
Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson discusses the secrets of the idle life over this six part course. Based on Tom’s global best-selling books How to be Idle and How to be Free, the course is designed to help...
View ArticleOnline course: An Introduction to Modern Philosophy
A SIX part course in the central ideas of modern philosophy. This course, comprising over two hours of video plus notes and quiz, is for anyone who would like to sort their existentialism from their...
View ArticleLive Course: An Introduction To Psychology and Psychotherapy
A six week introduction to the history and fundamental ideas of psychology and psychotherapy with Dr Mark Vernon. Dates: Weekly from Monday 12th January to Monday 16th February. Time: 6:30 – 8pm The...
View ArticleAlan Watts centenary celebration with John Lloyd, Oliver Burkeman and Tim Lott
January 7th is the 100th birthday of the ‘spiritual entertainer’ Alan Watts. Featured in the Spike Jonze film Her and on Cheryl Cole’s new album, Watts is a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic,...
View ArticleOnline Philosophy Course Bundle
WE have put together this fantastic bundle of our four online philosophy courses. Buy them together and you will save a smashing £35 on the full price of £110. We have put together the best of all that...
View ArticleSOHO CLASS: An Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
Date: Thursday 29th January 2015 Time: Doors open to ticket holders at 6:30pm, talk is from 7 – 8:30pm Location: The Union Club, Soho The first in a series of Idler events at The Union Club in Soho on...
View ArticleLive Course: Autumn Foraging and Philosophy Weekend
A weekend on the Exmoor coast learning about ancient philosophy and how to find and prepare wild food. FEED YOUR MIND and body on the Idler Academy’s Foraging and Philosophy weekend. Over the course of...
View ArticleCOURSE: Modern Philosophy Sunday
A day course in modern philosophy with Dr Mark Vernon. Time: 11am – 5pm Description: A lively, day crash course in philosophy, exploring the essentials you need to know about the modern figures from...
View ArticleSOHO CLASS: How to be Idle with Tom Hodgkinson
Date: Wednesday 4th March Time: Doors open to ticket holders at 6:30pm; talk is from 7 to 8:30pm Location: The Union Club, Soho The second in our series of Idler events at The Union Club in Soho. This...
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