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Are you a Facebook lover?  An avid Twitterer?  Would you like to apply your skills and enthusiasm to an exciting new not-for-profit organisation?

We are looking for someone with great social media skills, plus strong publicity, PR and communications experience and bags of energy to enable us to reach and help more people.

Life Squared is a not-for profit organisation that aims to help people to live happier, wiser and more meaningful lives within the pressure and complexity of the modern world. 

We’re living in a time when it’s increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction, discern a real news story from a PR puff piece, understand what a politician is really trying to say, escape from the influence of advertising or work out how to manage our kids’ lives online.

We’re surrounded by hot air, interest groups, information and influence everywhere and it can feel overwhelming. Everyone’s talking at you, trying to influence you, and yet no-one is helping to lead us through this fog, so that we can deal with this stuff and live well-informed, flourishing lives.

Today at Life Squared we are launching an important new publication - our first book, in fact. It’s called ‘The Life Trap - and how to escape it’, and is available as a free download or audiobook, here.

Using the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience, the book argues that human beings are not as rational or well-informed as most of us think we are. We are in fact highly vulnerable to manipulation by other people - particularly those with wealth and power.

Over the next few months we'll be producing audiobook versions of most of our publications for you to download or listen to while you're on the go.

We've already produced quite a few of these, so check them out now!

How to get perspective

The Problem with consumerism

How to be yourself

Come and work for Life Squared!

We are looking for someone with great social media skills, plus strong publicity, PR and communications experience and bags of energy to enable us to reach and help more people.

Tens of thousands of people already read our online guides every year, but we know we can reach and help a much bigger audience – and you can help us achieve this. You’ll be helping us get the best out of our social media accounts, publish e-book versions of our publications and generate publicity for our work, among other things.

Life Squared has now been running for 10 years, and at this point we'd really like to understand a bit more about the lovely people that visit our website and read our publications, so we’d be very grateful if you could answer a few questions for us in the survey at the bottom of this section.

We are looking for someone with great social media skills, plus strong publicity, PR and communications experience and bags of energy to enable us to reach and help more people.

Hello - and thanks for visiting Life Squared. 

If you're visting for the first time, it's great to see you and if you're a regular visitor, welcome back - we really appreciate your support!

What is the meaning of life? How should we live? What happens when we die?

Our Director @RichardDocwra has written an e-book for Humanists UK on these, and other, big questions of life, and it's just been published.

You can downlad it (for free) here.

This booklet is a basic, no-nonsense guide to answering some of these big questions from a non-religious viewpoint – one that anyone, whether they are religious or not, will be able to get something from.

It can be can be extremely difficult in the modern world to make well-informed choices about food given the range of influences that are promoting unhealthy food, dubious diets and upholding a philosophy of life that is neither particularly healthy or good for the environment.

Our new guide therefore helps you cur through the confusion, and sets out some simple, broad principles to enable us to get into good eating and exercise habits so that we remove much of the angst and complexity from the choices we’re making.