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Meeting Room Hire

Athene House, 13 Addiscombe Grove, Croydon CR0 5LR

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.”

Are you looking for a calm and peaceful retreat from the noise and bustle of urban life with a beautiful space for your Yoga or Tai Chi Group?  Or a comfortable room for your group, charity or society meeting?  Then Athene House could be just the place you are looking for.

Athene House Croydon Courses Philosophy and Economics
Athene House Croydon Courses Philosophy and Economics

Location

Athene House,
13 Addiscombe Grove,
Croydon CR0 5LR
(5 minutes’ walk from East Croydon Station)

For further details or to arrange visit, please call:

  • A fine Victorian House with original features, paintings, sculptures and prints.
  • Use of gardens with seating and fountain.
  • Three car-parking spaces.
  • Keypad entry.
  • Use of kitchen and scullery by arrangement. All to be left neat, tidy and as you would expect to find them at the end of the session.  Depending on nature of event, an additional cleaning charge may be levied.
  • All food brought onto the premises must be vegetarian.
  • Lockable storage for small items brought onto the premises.
  • Free Wi-Fi.
  • Rates are negotiable for long-term and regular bookings.
  • The School of Philosophy South East London has public liability insurance, but groups are advised to consider the nature of the event and if necessary, take out their own insurance if the event contains risk.
  • Smoking, including e-cigarettes, is not allowed anywhere in the building or garden.
Rooms Floor Area m2 Number of People Rate per Hour Rate per Session
Ground Floor: Main Hall (G2)
65m2
30-40
£40
Ground Floor: Inner Hall (G3)
28m2
15-20
£35
Ground Floor: Main Hall (G2) and Inner Hall (G3) together
93m2
35-60
£70
Ground Floor: Front Room (G4)
21m2
10-12
£35
First Floor: Pink and Oriel Rooms.
20m2
10-12
£35
Hire of Kitchen
From £30
Cleaning fee
From £30
Hire of 48” flat screen TV in Main Hall. Includes use of pull-down projection screen if required

£30 

Ground Floor

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.
Meeting Room Hire Croydon Main Hall G2

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

Meeting Room Hire Croydon First Floor Room 1.2

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
Meeting Room Hire Croydon First Floor Oriel Room 1.4
Meeting Room Hire Croydon Kitchen

Kitchen

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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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