Reset your mindset, expand your heart and find your peak… with Philip’s educational and spiritual guidance
Meet Philip Keay, Educational Pioneer
of Skills-Based Learning and Practical Spiritual Living
Philip’s life as an educator began accidentally at the end of 1991 in the steaming hot urban jungle of Bangkok in Thailand. His travel money had reached its end, but not his wanderlust, and he managed to land an English teaching job to extend his adventure...
He instantly discovered that teaching adults was his vocation in life, and that living in Thailand was to his soulful benefit. It transpired that he had accidentally emigrated too.
He has spent his life exploring the psychological and spiritual aspects of what it means to be human, and, since 2008, the biological workings of the human body. This underscores all his teaching and writing work.
Learning with Philip (1)
“Philip is a phenomenal teacher of human language, behavior, and psychology who deepened my understanding of our shared experience in many remarkable ways.”
~ Michael Guenza, USA
“Philip far exceeded any expectation I had
of what a good teacher should be. He asked deep questions which planted the seeds of continued self-development in his students.”
~ Oliver Dilley, England
“Ajarn Philip is an exceptional teacher I had the fortune to have taken classes with. He has a special gift in drawing students out of their shells to participate in class, even with a shy and normally reserved person like me.”
~ Grace Dee, Myanmar
Feedback from Payap University MA students, communicated directly to Philip
Philip’s Work in Brief
Philip is a transformational educator* of adults, a teacher trainer, a motivator, a published author, a photographer, and a pioneer of practical spirituality.
He has a Master of Arts in English Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics from King’s College, University of London; and a Diploma and Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults from University of Cambridge.
In 2021 he published his first book Menu For A Spiritual Revolution: Health Harmony & Happiness. He has since written a short ebook on how we can transform our human world by transforming our education systems. It is free and you can get your copy below.
He is now building The Infinity Learning Academy to i) heal humankind, by ii) bringing cutting-edge, life-enhancing education to the adult world, in particular parents, educators, leaders, and advocates for change, who will learn how to inspire and empower others in kind: it is ‘infinity education’.
*A transformational educator is one who focuses on developing students as human beings:
i) cultivating and nourishing their innate intelligence, unique talents and inner beauty
ii) empowering them to master the learning, communication and reflective thinking skills
iii) guiding them on a journey of self-inquiry to learn self-knowledge for self-growth.
An ‘educator’ is a parent, teacher, coach, leader, or anybody who is responsible for the evolution of others.
Philip’s Books
Menu For A Spiritual Revolution: Health Harmony & Happiness
Click on the book image to learn more, and to buy your copy to help you uncover your inner beauty, power and unique talents.
This book took eight years to write and draws upon a lifetime of experiences, observations, research, reflections and understandings. It was published in 2021.
It is a guided self-discovery for all who seek to understand who they really are, how life really works, so that they can manage - and optimise - their own life, health and destiny.
This is vital work because all of us are failed by school systems the world over, and unless we take steps to develop our human essence and inner authority that was blocked from us in our formative years, we are consigned to a life of unnecessary struggle and psychological suffering.
All adults need an education because they never got one!
An Education Charter and Framework For The Healing of Humankind
Unlike the eight-year odyssey of his first book, this 30-page ebook took two months to write! And while its message has tremendous value for all human beings, Philip is giving it away.
Philip writes in the introduction, “… then in 2020 the accumulated consequences of our destructive school systems blew the lid off 'normal' life, and humanity entered full-blown calamity. Education got us into our mess, and only a different kind of education can get us out of it. This ebook shows you how YOU can be an active part of the solution.”
This ebook is the complete summary of why our human family is struggling, what the solution is, and how each adult can actively contribute to the healing of humankind by first empowering themselves, by learning and mastering the crucial learning, social and communication skills; skills that our school systems so miserably fail to develop in us as children, leaving us with a deep psychological struggle in life and conflict in our relationships.
It is a DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE READ with various tasks along the way to get you reflecting. It is essential reading for parents, educators, leaders and all advocates for change.
‘When you are ready to learn, a teacher will appear.’ ~ Lao Tzu
Click on the book image to sign up to Philip’s new learning ‘empire’, The Infinity Learning Academy, and receive your complimentary copy by email.
Here is your challenge: get your copy, and read it in one sitting or two sittings. Pause your reading and do each task as you come to them. This will give you a taster of Task-Based Learning.
Philip’s Approach to Teaching
“When you discover the joy of learning you discover the joy of living; when you master the skill of learning you master the skill of living.”
Philip trains and empowers adults and youth using his unique, pioneering brand of *FREEDOM Task-Based Learning. It is an interactive, skills-focused, student-centred education of self-inquiry with guided discovery.
All his students become skilled in learning, communicating, thinking and solving challenges and problems, while learning knowledge crucial to a successful navigating of life.
Philip has taught about 3500 language students and trained about 400 language teachers - both beginners and experienced - from over 30 countries. He has taught at universities since 1995.
*FREEDOM means your learning experience is Fun, Rewarding, Engaging, Empowering, Dynamic, Organic and Moral. This is conscious learning and leads to conscious living, which leads to holistic health and wellness.
It translates into a multi-dimensional, experiential and reflective learning experience which inspires adults and youth to develop their communication skills, self-knowledge and self-confidence that were either suppressed or left undeveloped during the disastrous ‘education’ provided by the school systems.
Philip’s students become lifelong learners and sovereign human beings.
Please head over to The Infinity Learning Academy to find out how you can become your own scientist, researcher, inner world explorer, and leader, and to master various and multiple cognitive skills. You have so much more power than you might think: it just needs activating and then nurturing.
What Does Philip Teach?
He ‘teaches’ the learning, communication, and conscious living skills, including a whole array of learning subskills, strategies and techniques.
The whole focus is on students becoming self-motivated autonomous learners, and to be their own scientist, researcher, explorer and leader of self.
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In Task-Based Learning, students are always doing various tasks, which involve using, practising and developing multiple cognitive skills, including:
motivating, attentive listening, critical reading, observing, noticing, questioning, challenging one’s beliefs, inquiring, brainstorming, researching, reflecting, peer teaching, problem-solving, mindmapping, note-taking, summarising, interpreting, discerning, collaborating, being creative, thinking outside the box, memorising
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In Task-Based Learning, all communication skills and subskills, both oral and written, are constantly practised and mastered by the students, leading to self-confidence, self-worth, and strong and healthy relationships:
speaking, discussing, debating presenting, writing, journaling and keeping a learner log, collaborating, articulating one’s understanding, expressing one’s views, peer teaching, and LISTENING!
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These are self-education and autonomous learning skills which liberate the human being from the chains of a woeful schooling:
observing others and self, awareness and self-awareness, reflecting, paying attention, motivating, mindfulness, meditation, being present, non-violent communication, compassion, kindness, living with integrity
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Core knowledge to be known and understood relates to mind body and soul, language and communication, learning and memory, relationships, energetics, and how to learn, live and love:
motivation, language and making meaning, the brain’s Information Processing System, conscious learning, group psychology, leadership of self and others, energetics through Ayurveda and epigenetics, environment, mind body and soul, holistic health and wellness, diet and nutrition, lifestyle, geopolitics
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Master’s Courses: Classroom Inquiry, Teaching Language Skills, Curriculum Development, Task-Based Learning (TBL), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Topics: Group Dynamics and Leadership, Motivation, Learning Strategies, Communicative Language Teaching, Action Research
Certificate and Advanced Certificate in TESOL: How to teach, how to motivate, how to do lesson plans, how to timetable, how to teach the language skills, how to teach vocabulary, how to teach grammar, how to write learning materials, classroom management, how to ask questions, managing the learning process
A Personal Message on Self-Empowerment
Dear Friend
Greetings, and thank you for coming by my portion of the digital universe!
I would like to invite you to help me heal humankind… by first empowering yourself through conducting your own journey in self-inquiry. This, in a nutshell, is the corrective means for each of us to overcome the devastating consequences of a rotten and anti-human, anti-love school system.
I have set up The Infinity Learning Academy to enable and inspire all human beings to learn the art and skill of self-inquiry.
It is education for adults, and the learning experience is engaging, empowering and FUN. I myself act as the ‘learner-enabler’: I make learning happen by making it super motivating.
Along the way you acquire the skills, knowledge and energetics needed to completely turn your life around. Self-inquiry puts YOU in charge of YOU.
I wrote a book about, and promote, A Spiritual Revolution, which is the individual human taking themselves on a journey of exploration into the heart of their inner world to transform and liberate themselves. My role is to offer learners a guided discovery; I am the navigator while you are the driver. It goes like this:
self-inquiry >> self-discovery >> self-knowledge >> self-worth >>
self-growth >> self-healing >> sovereignty of self
Since 2004 I have inspired and empowered about 400 teachers to conduct this journey in the context of their classrooms and teaching work, and now my major mission in life is to utilise the online platform to train 1000s (10,000s?!) of adults in a similar manner, no matter your context in life and work.
Here is what I have learned to be true, from teaching thousands of adults from 30+ countries and all five continents in three decades:
Human beings everywhere mastering the conscious learning and compassionate communication skills is the golden key to solving humanity’s terrible troubles, and, of course their own trials and tribulations.
It unlocks our suppressed potential, inner beauty and unique talents; it unblocks our innate human essence of love, joy and inner peace; and, as a social animal, it fulfils our primary desire for camaraderie and connection with our fellow brothers and sisters.
When we are learning, that is, pursuing ever-greater understanding of ourselves and our world, we are living consciously and with purpose. In this mode of mind we live harmoniously, not in a state of stress and conflict.
By experiencing the joy and rewards of learning you will easily commit to becoming a lifelong learner, and now you find the sky is your limit, the world your oyster, and the universe your boundary!
You will become the integrated, intelligent and interconnected individual you were born to be.
If you are a parent, teacher, leader, activist, or any kind of advocate for change, then you will additionally become an excellent educator, mentor and motivator for others to learn from you in kind.
I call it ‘Infinity Education’: learning and evolving will always be a feature of your life, and you will be passing on the baton of self-education to others.
Humankind will be transformed; you will live with health, harmony and happiness!
If you head over to The Infinity Learning Academy page you will find information on my courses, books, and all my other educational offerings which can make the above a reality for you in next to no time.
It’s a work-in-progress, so why not subscribe to my new Infinity Education Club and keep yourself completely up to date for all my new content and products? You will get my complementary ebook mentioned above, all my blogs and videos and whatever other goodies I produce!
In power, peace and love
Philip
Learning with Philip (2)
“When it comes to Mr Philip, he is a humorous and vivid teacher and he himself gives us a lively example of being an active teacher first. His teaching methods and skills are so interesting that it has made the course a most enjoyable experience to the students. He is always so patient with the students - a very admirable trait when one people lead other people in doing exercises. Even though it seemed to be very simple, I learned much through this teaching and learning program, not only in teaching skills, but also in some other aspects such as teacher’s attitude towards students.”
~ University Teacher from Chengdu Province, China
“What I have thought of this class is that it is fun, the atmosphere is really laid back and everybody feels comfortable. I’m a bit shy, I don’t really like speaking but within this class I don’t mind speaking out. I am not afraid of saying something wrong because Philip has created this atmosphere where my opinion seems valuable and he will never make me feel bad. I enjoy how honest he is with us (he tells us his secret methods). He really teaches us how he goes about teaching every class. Philip presents us with the topic in a very interesting manner. Resulting in a more efficient learning. The students are more captivated and attentive.”
~ BA student of English Language Methodology class.
“I felt busy and thirsty in almost every period of class because we were highly motivated to engage in all kinds of class activities. In this open system of teaching, we never felt worried about whether our answers are right or wrong, and from the discussion we draw conclusion by ourselves. I’m much amazed at the teacher’s skilful organization of the class.”
~ Teacher from Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
Feedback given directly to Payap University, Chiang Mai, hence their anonymity
My areas of research
Education — the Human Condition — Language and Meaning — Holistic Living and Healing — Diet and Nutrition — Group Dynamics and Leadership — Psychology and the Mind — Spirituality and Essence — Epigenetics and Ayurveda — Motivation — Learner Beliefs — Media and Communication — Geopolitics
Professional Resume
Master of Arts in English Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics King’s College, University of London (2002)
Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults University of Cambridge (1998)
Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults University of Cambridge (1993)
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Instructor on Masters TESOL Program, International College, Payap University, Chiang Mai 2004-16
English Language Teacher at Goldsmiths College London, International House, and London School of English 2000-01
English Language Teacher at Mahanakorn University of Technology and Australian Institute of Languages, Bangkok, 1995-2000; Stamford College, Bangkok 1994-95; ECC Private Language School, Bangkok 1991-94 (Head Teacher 93-94 Lard Prao Branch)
My YouTube Channel is A Spiritual Revolution Exploring matters on education, spirituality, health, the human condition, and the influence of geopolitics.
My Facebook Page is A Spiritual Revolution I offer soul food for thought, spiritual and lifestyle insights, with all my own photography.
My Blogging Home My writing focuses on a mix of the above two, along with travel tales.
Directory and Menu of Operations All my various links in one window.
Sign up to my email list and receive weekly round-ups all my videos and blog posts, and get your complimentary copy of my mini-ebook An Education Charter and Framework for the Healing of Humankind.
Media
Introducing my new series on Learning to Love Your SELF
My Podcast episodes for meeting interesting, insightful, inspiring people!
Talking with hosts Helen and Maribel on my accidental emigration
Online Presence
Reach me at philip@aspiritualrevolution.com
WhatsApp +66 897936768
https://www.aspiritualrevolution.com/all-my-links