school of philosophy croydon

Athene House Venue Hire Croydon

13 Addiscombe Grove, Croydon CR0 5LR

Are you looking for venue hire in Croydon? Either for a retreat for a writer's weekend, an elegant and comfortable setting for a family break, or a beautiful room for your Yoga or Tai Chi group? Athene House could be just the place you are looking for.

Hiring Rooms in Athene House

 

“The Spirit in you and the Spirit in the Universe is one and the same. Realise this and you will find Freedom.”

 

 

Location:
Athene House,
13 Addiscombe Grove,
Croydon
CR0 5LR
(5 minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station)
philosophyselondon@fses.org
https://selondon.schoolofphilosophy.org/
For further details or to arrange visit, please call: 07956 817654.
The School of Philosophy and Economic Science has public liability insurance, however groups are advised to consider the nature of the event and if necessary take out their own insurance if the event contains risk. Groups are required in any event to conduct a risk assessment and send a copy to the Steward.

Ground Floor: Main Hall (G2)

 

Dimensions 9.5 x 6.8m (65m2).

There is seating for up to 40 people.

Features: Canadian Maple sprung floor, ideal for dance, yoga, Tai Chi etc.  Attractive lobby with bench seating and glazed doors to garden.

 

Ground Floor: Inner Hall (G3)

 

Dimensions 4.3 x 6.6m (28m2).

There is seating for up to 20 people.

Features: Canadian Maple sprung floor, ideal for yoga, Tai Chi etc.

 

Ground Floor: Main Hall and Inner Hall (G2 & G3) combined (by drawing back folding doors)

 

Dimensions 9.5 x 6.8m and 4.3 x 6.6m (93m2).

There is seating for up to 60 people.

Features: Canadian Maple sprung floor, ideal for yoga, Tai Chi etc. Attractive lobby with bench seating and glazed doors to garden.

 

Ground Floor: Front Room (G4)

 

Dimensions 4.4 x 4.4m (19m2).

There is seating for up to 12 people.

Features: Carpeted floor, original Victorian fireplace and bay window.

First Floor: Room (1.2)

Dimensions 4.8 x 4.5m (21m2).

There is seating for up to 12 people.

Features: Carpeted floor and bay window.

First Floor: Oriel Room (1.4)

Dimensions 3.8 x 5.0m (19m2).

There is seating for up to 12 people.

Features: Carpeted floor and oriel window.

LOCATION

Athene House,

13 Addiscombe Grove, Croydon CR0 5LR

Registered charity no: 313115

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Practical philosophy course Croydon

Introductory Courses

The courses have limited spaces and can get fully booked up in advance, so to save disappointment it is advisable to reserve your place on the next course well in advance.

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Practical Philosophy
Economics with Justice

What’s covered in the 10-week course (click below):

Themes included in the course

These opening sessions consider how philosophy can help us enjoy richer, less stressful lives.

What is practical philosophy?

‘What would a wise person do here?’

Philosophy means the love of wisdom. Our course is intended to show how philosophy can help us enjoy richer, less stressful and more useful lives. This opening two sessions consider these aims, and introduces simple exercises in mindfulness and the application of wisdom you can practise in daily life.

You can download or listen to the Awareness Exercise, introduced in week one here. To download, right-click, choose ‘Save link as…’ and save the MP3 wherever you want.

You can also download a PDF of the Awareness Exercise

Who or what am I?

What is my potential?

Who am I, really? My body? My emotions? My strongly held beliefs? My soul? Possibly all of these? Possibly none?

Such questions have preoccupied philosophers down the ages. We look at practical ways to explore who we really are and how to tap our true potential.

What is our state of awareness?

Why does it fluctuate during the day?

Often the most notable quality of wise people is their alertness to the subtleties of a situation. They are awake, perceptive and curious.

We look at deeper levels of awareness, and consider how we may become more awake to ourselves, our surroundings, and the events we meet.

Living in the now, mindfulness.

What is the potential of the present moment?

We review our own experience of attention through a model featuring attention centred, captured, open and scattered, and how these each relate to the past, present and future.

We examine the extraordinary brightness and freedom naturally available in the present moment. A straightforward practice is introduced.

 

Plato’s views on justice.

What does it mean to live justly?

According to Plato, justice and injustice do not start ‘out there’. They begin within us. For justice to prevail, Plato suggests that we must learn to avoid being ‘tyrannised’ by our passions and fears to the extent they overrule our reason.

We discuss the practicality of Plato’s ideas on justice in our daily lives.

The Vedic model of three fundamental energies.

Sometimes we seem not to have enough energy, or the wrong kind. A wise person can act consistently despite these varying conditions.

We consider how to recognise differing energies, how to gain and conserve them and how to use them wisely.

What is reason? How can it enrich our lives? We look at guidelines for Socratic dialogue and how to use them. Developing reason in decision-making and action are also discussed, with practical applications. Obstacles to reason are considered. Everyone has the faculty of reason and we can all use it and develop it. 

What is beauty?

Is there such a thing as absolute beauty?

Beauty has the capacity to open the heart and bring delight. In this session we discuss our direct experience of beauty in its different form: of the sensory world, of thought, of feelings, of the inner nature, and of conduct.

We consider Plato’s idea of there being ultimately one beauty – beauty absolute – ‘not knowing birth or death, growth or decay’.

 

Looking for the common thread in life.

What is the effect of finding unity?

When we look around, we see enormous diversity in nature. The wise person looks for the unifying factor: that which allows all this apparent diversity to be seen as part of a single whole.

Seen in this way, life then has the best chance of being led freshly and openly.

 

What is truth?

How does the desire for truth show itself?

Practical philosophy is about discovering the truth of things – not theoretically, but in our own experience.

In this final session we look back and ask ourselves how our search for truth has fared as the term has progressed. We discuss what has been discovered and how, in our own way, we may continue to develop it in our daily lives.

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