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WEBINAR

Thinking with Socrates: ‘Know Thyself’ in Practice

Date: Wednesday 11th November, 2026

Time: 10am-12pm (London, UK)

Price: Free

Speakers: Dr Rebekah Howes and Professor Nigel Tubbs, Think Learning

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‘The unexamined life is not worth living’
‘I know that I know nothing’
'I will not cease from asking questions even on pain of death’
 
Socrates’ legacy in, and on, European thought and culture is far reaching. But does this legacy have anything to offer practitioners working in health, social care, education and justice? In what ways can his life be seen to represent a notion of care? Is he perhaps the architect of professional curiosity? 
 
In this webinar we will tell the story of his life and death; we will explore some of the things he taught; and we will look at the famous Socratic method as a possible model for inclusive and relational practice.  As always where Socrates is concerned, whether we know something about him or not, we will be challenged by what he said and what he stood for. He divides opinion, but always by way of invitation to ‘know thyself.’ 

 

Who should attend?

  • Social workers, from principal to newly qualified
  • Team and Service Managers
  • Professionals working in safeguarding
  • Educators and youth workers
  • Foster carers and parents
  • Mental health professionals
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Occupational therapists
  • Youth justice
  • Housing practitioners
  • Residential care workers
  • Emergency services

 

Meet the speakers

 

Dr Rebekah Howes

Dr Rebekah Howes has 15 years’ experience teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the university sector, and publishing and presenting papers internationally.

In 2010 she co-designed and led the first Liberal Arts degree in the UK. She brings to Think Learning the strong belief that what and how we learn should matter to us as human beings, and she hopes to continue to develop this sense of humanity in her work with course participants.

Professor Nigel Tubbs

Nigel Tubbs was Professor at the University of Winchester for 15 years after having been a school teacher in West Sussex and Brighton in the 1980s and early 1990s. He led two undergraduate programmes, in Education Studies, and more recently in Liberal Arts, which was the first such programme to be reintroduced into English universities for many decades (having begun life in Ancient Greece with Plato and Aristotle).

As a university researcher he wrote nine books, including Socrates On Trial, which was a New Statesman book of the year 2021. He is currently part of a new venture in higher education called Think Learning.