The School of Life The Therapy Game

When we end up in a really good conversation with a friend, we sometimes pay them a slightly unusual but sincere compliment: we say that chatting to them feels like talking to a good therapist.

What we tend to mean is that they’re giving us space to talk, they’re not interrupting us or pushing their own advice aggressively forward: they’re properly listening.

This game cannot turn us into real therapists (that would take years of training). But like many good games (ones about flying or being a detective for example), it gives us a chance to try out, entertainingly but safely, one of the most interesting sides of a great profession. The Therapy Game offers us a rare opportunity to listen and speak to one another at truly fulfilling length and depth.

The cards cover five categories:
Work
Sex
Relationships
Anxiety
Self

Brand: The School of Life

The School of Life is an educational company with a mission to help you understand yourself better, and their eclectic and contemporary product range has been designed around this aim. The School of Life’s ideas fall into six key categories – self-knowledge, relationships, work, calm, sociability, and leisure and culture – and these ideas are shared through the organisation’s various channels. In addition to books, games, homeware and curiose, The School of Life offer online classes and courses, a library of eBooks and a YouTube channel, all based around their philosophy of life. So, what might start as a gift to yourself or another, could blossom into an enjoyable journey down a path of self-discovery and wellbeing.