Courses - Online & in London

Curious about colour and its uses in healing? Explore colour as living phenomenon and begin to expand your awareness and practice of this unique form of energy healing.

Are you a compulsive helper? If you are, you may well suffer from ‘Super-Helper Syndrome’. Join psychologist, coach and author of The Super Helper Syndrome Jess Baker for this intimate and interactive workshop, to explore the challenges of being a super-helper and how to develop more healthy ways of helping.

From birth to death, our lives are a quest for meaning, filled with moments of satisfaction, regret, and everything in between. Join City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson as he delves into the topic of ‘living and dying’ with palliative care doctor and best-selling author Dr Kathryn Mannix, and Books Beyond Words Chair, Baroness Sheila Hollins.

Are you a compulsive helper? If you are, you may well suffer from ‘Super-Helper Syndrome’. City Lit’s Ian Tucknott sits down with author and psychologist Jess Baker to discuss the concept of super helpers and how it impacts their lives.

Join City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson as he sits down with Neuroscientist and Author of The Source Dr. Tara Swart as she discusses life, career and book, and to share pragmatic neuroscience-based messages all about our mental health.

Members of the City Lit community come together with special guest writers and performers from Written Off for an evening of spoken word, music and performance all based around creativity, identity, mental health, wellbeing and more.

Join Paul Farmer, CEO of AgeUK, Dr Tara Swart, Neuroscientist and Author, The Source, and Dr Carole Easton, CEO, Centre for Ageing Better, as they discuss some of the risk factors for our mental health as we get older, including health, wealth and finance.

Garth MacAnally shares his continued journey into understanding humour and the role it plays when things take unexpected turns in life.







“The road to recovery isn’t always what we might expect. An introspection of the reframed journey of recovery where a keeping a sense of humour in the face of continued adversity has been essential to my mental health.”.

Writing Haiku poems can provide a peaceful distraction from life's challenges by focusing on creative writing. Composing Haiku can produce a feeling of achievement, and help you to get in touch with the natural world and show us our place within it. This workshop is part of the 2024 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.

Get to know Chinese characters, beginning with the ancient ‘oracle bone script’, and understand their basics while exploring their roots in nature and tranquility.



This session is part of the 2024 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.

Books Beyond Words is a charity co-creating word-free stories for people with learning disabilities. Founder and Chair Baroness Hollins and artist Mike Nicholson talk about creating picture stories with therapeutic value, while City Lit students will show us how to read Rose Gets in Shape.

In her memoir ‘Perfect Bound’, former Good Housekeeping Editor Lindsay Nicholson MBE shares how she re-wrote the pages to become Britain’s top magazine editor despite the unbearable loss of her child and husband. She recounts a car accident that forced her to confront past traumas and the subsequent upheavals – arrest, divorce, and job loss – eventually finding solace in the pages her old magazine.







Join Lindsay as she discusses her journey of resilience and recovery with City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson at the Mental Wealth Festival, followed by a book signing and meet-and-greet.

Join 4X TEDx speaker, former model, consultant and emerging author Shaun Flores for a transformative exploration of neurodiversity that challenges the status quo and invites you to see beyond the surface. In this powerful and thought-provoking talk, Shaun dives deep into the complexities of neurodiversity, unravelling the misconceptions and societal biases that have long stigmatised those who think differently. With his signature catchphrase, “OCD was the worst thing to happen to me, and I am determined to be the worst thing to happen to OCD,” Shaun brings the same relentless passion to addressing the broader neurodiverse community.







This isn’t just another conversation—it’s a call to action. Shaun’s engaging narrative will push you to reflect on your perceptions and inspire you to become an ally in creating a world where neurodiversity is accepted and celebrated. The talk will be followed by a live Q&A, offering you the chance to engage directly and continue the conversation that could change how we think about neurodiversity forever.