Melbourne: The School of Life

the School of Life Melbourne is located
at 669 Bourke Street and docume house
and we established here because we
wanted to create a space where people
could come together and share ideas with
one another in order to affect very real
change and positive change in their
everyday lives our beautiful cafe and
bookshop is a place where people can
come and take refuge from the city
outside people constantly referring to
it as their little oasis and when people
can come together with strangers and sit
and share a coffee and read a book and
learn things about each other that they
might not usually get a chance to learn
that our community grows and that’s how
we’ve grown our community here we offer
a range of programs we offer classes
workshops intensive retreats adventures
all sorts of things that explore some
key themes that we all think about in
our everyday lives things like how to
have better conversations how to stay
calm how to find a job you love and even
things like how to face death I think
often we walk around feeling like we’re
the only one who feels a certain way
about something
like whether we struggle to know how to
have better conversations with people we
know or with strangers whether we don’t
know how to deal with our family whether
we feel lonely millions of other
problems and often we think that they
are just only ours coming into a space
like the school of life in Melbourne is
a way of connecting with others often
strangers who are going through very
similar things to the things that you’re
going through and probably feeling just
as much confusion and our beautiful
books and out the beautiful people who
work in this space are here to act as
prompts or catalysts to get us thinking
about our lives in different ways and perhaps in deeper ways