A Lesson For Life

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you could be getting more out of your life? Is everything ‘OK’, but not quite what it could be? If so, you might want to get yourself down to your local life club.

Set up in London in 2005 by former Daily Telagraph self-help columnist Nina Grunfeld, the weekly 90 minute workshops now take place all over the country. The purpose of the meetings is to help attendees work out exactly what they want from life and how to go about getting it.

Each session starts off with everyone telling the person next to them something positive that’s happened to them that day, before focusing on the weeks topic- anything from ‘Coping with Change’ to ‘Being your own Hero’. Based on the principle that its easier to open up to a stranger, most of the work is done in pairs, each one supervised by a different life coach. Every group uses the same ‘discovery techniques’ invented by Grunfeld, whose inspiration came from hitch-hiking as a student: "You pour out your heart and soul to someone, then you never see each other again.’

Potential life clubbers keen on guarding their privacy will be encouraged by the cardinal rule: ‘What happens at Life Clubs stays at Life Clubs’ A one-and-a-half hour session costs £15.