The Self-Empowerment Academy
Lifelong Learning Skills · Self-Knowledge · Holistic Health · Self-Growth
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”
~ Krishnamurti
“Today’s society is yesterday’s classroom, today’s classroom is tomorrow’s society.”
“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 Keay
By coming to this page of the Academy of A Spiritual Revolution you have given yourself an opportunity to revolutionise and transform your life. You do this by investing energy, time, love and money in yourself by learning with Philip.
Go here to see what students think of his teaching and their learning.
Here at the Academy of A Spiritual Revolution adults and adolescents get to build the solid foundation for manifesting a beautiful life. The school systems gave us only quicksand. Every adult alive needs to learn and build the 5 Pillars so that they can experience holistic health, self-growth, .
The focus is on learning to learn and communicate. This brings self-empowerment, self-confidence and self-leadership, which puts you in charge of your own life, health and destiny. You get to heal and regenerate yourself, and can build and maintain a community group - online or in-person.
COMING SOON… early 2025… from The Academy for A Spiritual Revolution…
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS & DYNAMIC LEARNING COURSES
You can study live online or in person (in Chiang Mai, Thailand) with Philip, a soul adventurer, teacher trainer and transformational educator of some distinction amongst all his adult and adolescent students.
These are all life-changing educational events. Philip doesn’t bring the answers, he brings the questions for you to find your own answers. Then we share and compare. It’s revolutionary education that makes you a master of the learning and communication skills while learning health-promoting knowledge.
You will experience Philip’s unique brand of Task-Based Learning*, a cutting-edge, collaborative, heart-centred, skills-focused learning experience that is super motivating, empowering, inspiring and absolutely transformative. It would not be remiss to call it needle-in-a-haystack education!
(See here for a heap of testimonials and feedback from past students.)
On the curriculums at The Academy for A Spiritual Revolution we are focused on delivering a second, life-affirming education for adults and teenagers (your first education was life-suppressing).
A Spiritual Revolution is a journey and learning adventure of self-inquiry through guided discovery, with Philip as your navigator.
The macro-objective at The Academy is for you to build a solid foundation of essential skills, self-knowledge and belief in yourself so that you can take charge of your life, health and destiny; live with purpose and passion; and empower and inspire others in kind. All learning programs (workshops, courses, retreats) are designed for you to:
develop and master your learning, communication and self-leadership skills
develop your self-knowledge: learn about and understand holistic health, your mind body and soul, and the internal and external environments
cultivate self-belief: self-confidence, self-awareness, self-empowerment
If this sounds like your cup of tea (a very good learning drink!), then I suggest you subscribe to my weekly Unleash Your Spirit Letters in the form above and below. You will immediately receive my concise ebooklet on A Spiritual Revolution, outlining the why, how and what of this unique kind of revolution which Philip has determined is the ONLY solution for the healing of humankind.
(And humankind most certainly needs healing! And that includes you and me! Healing leads to wellness, but wellness needs constant practice and vigilance. It means you need a range of skills and knowledge that 99% of schools fail to teach us.)
Each weekend you will then get a new Letter from me, which brings you invaluable free educational content, which should be an engaging, enjoyable, insightful read. This will make you an automatic member of the A Spiritual Revolution Club, whose mission is to transform the fortunes of our human world by radically transforming the way education is done.
Accordingly, as and when I release details and schedules for workshops and courses, you will be the first to know and to get yourself onto a workshop or a course or both.
In 2026 I will be offering full-on four-week Art of Leadership courses at amazing locations in northern Thailand! I am planning this to be the Mother of all Leadership Training Courses on the planet!
This Academy is dedicated to bringing about a radical transformation in the way we human beings do education, so that together we can heal our whole human family. For you personally the objective is threefold:
to unblock your mind, unlock your heart, unleash your spirit
to guide you into becoming aligned with your true and unique nature
to empower you with the skills, self-knowledge and self-belief required for your natural ongoing evolution and spiritual self-growth, so that you can live as the very best version of yourself.
In achieving these three objectives (much easier than you might think), you will then be in a position to guide others in kind, be they children or your fellow adults.
We are collectively and individually struggling with immense burdens… we are living in perpetual stress, conflict and civil war - within our own being, and between each other.
Our human world is on fire, in total chaos and facing catastrophe.
Unnecessarily so.
It is surprisingly easy to stop all this tragic nonsense. This Academy serves to help you do just that, to put your hand up and be counted upon to fix our world by fixing yourself.
And until you have carried out your own spiritual revolution it is undoubtedly true that you are a broken human being. Society and school broke you. It is such a devastating breakage that many of us can’t even see that we are broken.
It is without a shred of doubt that ALL adults need a second education to liberate themselves from the shackles imposed upon them by their first education. This second education is you undertaking your own spiritual revolution to learn how to educate and empower yourself.
Society and schooling are devastating humankind... blocking our minds, locking up our hearts, and crushing our spirit. But, we are human, and all it needs is one spark of inspiration from one human to another, and all that disconnect and disempowerment can drop immediately.
Philip Keay is the author of two books promoting and facilitating the liberation of readers through spiritual and educational self-growth.
Now his Academy and full ecosystem is in place to deliver live learning opportunities for all adults and adolescents who wish to live in
Philip Keay is the author of two books promoting and facilitating the liberation of readers through spiritual and educational self-growth.
Now his Academy and full ecosystem is in place to deliver live learning opportunities for all adults and adolescents who wish to live in
At the Academy for A Spiritual Revolution—the creation of non-conventional educator, teacher trainer, author and soul adventurer Philip Keay—you will build five pillars to give you the rock solid foundation from which you can navigate, negotiate and nurture the rest of your life. (Your schooling built your foundation on quicksand.)
The 5 Pillars are:
learning how to cultivate and master the learning skill
learning how to cultivate and master your communication skills
learning how to cultivate and master self-leadership skills
discovering vital self-knowledge to learn about your mind, body and soul to learn who the real true you is
cultivating and living with self-belief
In short: the learning skill, communication skills, self-leadership, self-knowledge and self-belief.
The learning skill to put you in charge of your own life, health and destiny.
The communication skills to help you build healthy relationships and vibrant communities.
The self-leadership skills to help you facilitate, inspire and empower others to build their five pillars.
Self-knowledge to discover and be the real true you,
Welcome to the rest of your life, one where you nourish yourself and others to flourish.
I am Philip Keay, a non-conventional educator who experiences tremendous joy in teaching and learning. I consider education to be the most precious human resource of all. When learning is a joy, living is a joy; when learning is rewarding, living is rewarding; when we master learning, we master living.
But… our mainstream world does not offer education, it offers a devastating anti-education. Unbelievably it blocks us from learning how to learn. This is the root cause of all the chaos, confusion and conflict you may see in the world and in your own local world.
I have built my Academy for one express purpose: to train and inspire parents, educators, leaders, activists and all world helpers
Life is the flow of energy; the flow of energy is movement; movement is change. Therefore life IS change.
Do you resist change? Then you resist life.
Do you embrace change? Then you embrace life.
Would you like to be skilled in change, transformation,
self-growth and LIFE? Then get on this course…
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Today’s society is yesterday’s classroom. Today’s classroom is tomorrow’s society.”
~ Philip Keay
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
~ Mark Twain
“Discover the joy of learning and you discover the joy of living. Master the skill of learning and you master the skill of living.”
~ Philip Keay
Task for the Reader
Reflect upon the four quotes and ask yourself what they mean to you.
Can you see a progression in the quotes from collective conditioning to individual sovereignty?
This Academy’s Mission is to make today’s classroom an empowering and inspiring place to be; to facilitate parents, teachers, educators, all leaders and world helpers in overcoming the disempowering and dehumanising consequences of their anti-education schooling; to bring them the skills, self-knowledge and self-belief they need to do as Mr Gandhi bid us to do; and, above all, to acquire a love of learning so that you become a lifelong learner, forever evolving during your journey in this life the universe granted you, and to do so with mastery of the personal development and spiritual self-growth skills.
Welcome to the rest of your life. On this website and at this Academy, ‘education’ means the development of the human being, encouraging and enabling them to educate and empower themselves with the foundational skills, self-knowledge and self-belief that are essential for a human being if he or she is to thrive and flourish. And that is our birthright, granted by the universe, stolen from ‘the system’. It’s time to say goodbye to that system and forge our own way forwards.
Mission of the Academy
Objectives of the Academy
Radically transform the way education is done in our world. We stand for a heart-centred, skills-focused, dynamic learning experience that inspires and empowers all human beings to transform their life. (We have all been disempowered and dehumanised by the school system; we need a new kind of education to undo the damage.)
Train and inspire groups of adults to build a strong healthy foundation to their life with the 5 Pillars of A Spiritual Revolution: develop the learning, communication and self-leadership skills; acquire self-knowledge and self-confidence. Now adults can train and inspire children in kind. This is the only pathway to the healing of humankind.
Vision of the Academy
Human beings everywhere living as intelligent integrated interconnected individuals, in good health harmony and happiness, with curiosity courage and confidence. We live in alignment with our true nature, taking charge of our own life, health and destiny. We enjoy strong healthy relationships, and feel at ease building new communities. We do this through experiencing the power of an education which trains us in lifelong learning skills, holistic health and spiritual self-growth.
To train and inspire parents, home educators, teachers, leaders, healers, world helpers, entrepreneurs, advocates for change and all young adults in the process of self-inquiry so that they may unblock their mind, unlock their heart and unleash their spirit.
To promote and facilitate the flowering of humankind by activating inner authority, cultivating human essence and elevating the soul.
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Its objective is for all students to empower themselves, transform their lives and to heal humankind.
I am Philip, I live in northern Thailand, and I’m a non-conventional educator, author, soul adventurer and spiritual facilitator. I love living with purpose and passion, and delivering my brand of education to adults has enabled me to do just that for over 30 years. And counting.
My brand of education? I bring to adults a heart-centred, communicative, interactive, skills-focused self-empowering learning experience.
I’ve built this Academy to radically transform the way education is done. I invite you to be an agent of this transformation. If you are an adult or adolescent who cares about life and the fate of our whole human family, then you are this agent.
Such a transformation is non-negotiable if humankind is to heal itself, and it must begin with all adults for a simple, if for some, shocking reason: current and past ways of doing education have long been disconnecting, disempowering and dehumanising us as children, and then we enter adulthood in this suppressed stressed state of mind and heart, becoming the next generation of parents, teachers and leaders.
This intergenerational vicious cycle of anti-education schooling must be broken, in one decisive generation, if humankind is to stop engaging in perpetual war and conflict, and to replace so much hatred, division and distrust with love, respect and dignity for ourselves and each other.
Do not all human beings yearn for health and happiness, for strong healthy relationships, and to lead useful meaningful lives? Well, let’s dwell no more upon wishes, let’s take action.
With the seismic events of 2020, humankind right now has a once-in-an-epoch opportunity to break this vicious cycle of destructive devastating schooling that passes for ‘education’.
I call this transformation of education and empowerment A Spiritual Revolution, and I have set this Academy up for me to personally deliver learning courses and programs which will catalyse your own journey.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Is there a dichotomy, a gap, between who you are and who you want to be? Between what you’re doing in your life and what you want to be doing?
Are you leading your life with purpose and passion, or are you not living up to your dreams?
Are you healthy and happy, or pretending to be?
Do you find yourself hamstrung with self-doubt, a fear of failure, or feelings of unworthiness, to the extent, even, of sabotaging yourself?
Are you, simply put, not doing yourself justice?
This Academy offers game-changing courses and programs of learning. Everything you learn contributes to your spiritual revolution.
has been built to deliver unique learning courses for adults and adolescents to
But it has a bigger vision and mission to which all is directed.
Ask yourself which of the following you value, and give yourself a score out of 10 for each item, where 10 is maximum value…
being authentic and acting with integrity
Are you being authentic? Are you in alignment with your true nature? Do you know what your true nature is? Do you really even know who you are and why you are here?
Are you pretending to be happy and that all is fine and well in your life, when in fact deep inside your heart and soul you are unhappy, lonely, and feeling like you are wasting your life?
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
~ Robert Pirsig
Empower yourself, transform your life, and heal humankind by unblocking your mind, unlocking your heart and unleashing your spirit upon the world.
~ Philip Keay
Become a student at the Academy for A Spiritual Revolution, and this is exactly what you will be doing. And, you will immediately discover, you love doing it.
If you are an adult or adolescent with an intention to make your world and our world a better world (it must be both), then you are beautifully qualified to be a student at the Academy for A Spiritual Revolution.
If you are a parent, teacher, educator, leader, entrepreneur, world helper or advocate for change, then you should definitely be a student at this Academy. (Information for courses further down the page.)
Why?
Because you learn—interactively and dynamically—to become a facilitator and mentor for those who look to you for guidance and inspiration. By empowering yourself and transforming your life you will lead others in kind.
How does this work?
You will experience the uplifting, life-changing and unique brand of heart-centred, skills-focused, Task-Based Learning that non-conventional educator, prolific researcher and spiritual mentor Philip Keay has become renowned for with over 4000 language students and teachers in Thailand.
The reason students love learning with Philip is because they discover the joy of learning. 99% of schools suppress this #1 essential human skill.
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.
Central to the learning experience with Philip, creator of this Academy, is developing and mastering a whole range of key 21C3M (21st century 3rd millennium) skills you need to take charge of your own life, health and destiny, and, perhaps most importantly, to contribute to the evolution and healing of all humankind.
This is the foundation to living a meaningful, happy and fulfilling life that the school systems block us from building. This is A Spiritual Revolution.
The following is what you will experience for yourself, whatever the course or learning program, be it online or in-person in the life-affirming city of Chiang Mai, cultural capital of northern Thailand:
What students say
“Philip is a phenomenal teacher of human language, behavior and psychology.”
~ Michael Guenza, USA
“His wisdom, professionalism, calming spirit, gentle sense of humor, wealth of experience, and respect for human dignity have shaped me as a learner and as a university faculty member.”
~ Dr Oliver S. Crocco, USA
“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
“Philip is undoubtedly one of the best teachers I have ever had. He taught with passion… His classes were a source of joy to us, and we were always looking forward to each one of them.”
~ Bonny Toufic, USA
“From the first lesson with Philip I always felt highly engaged in the learning process he created. As the course went on, my classmates and I always knew that Philip’s forthcoming lessons would be absorbing, energising, and fulfilling experiences.”
~ Rick Mann, England
“Philip far exceeded any expectation I had of what a good teacher should be. He asked deep questions which planted seeds of continued self-development in his students.”
~ Oliver Dilley, England
“I have grown as the professional I am today because of great teachers like Philip, who allowed me to be myself and encouraged me to follow my dreams.”
~ Tatiana Aline Mohler, Brazil
“I always looked forward to his classes as they were so interactive and infused with a strong sense of learner autonomy. For me he was always a mentor. My heartfelt gratitude to him for where I am today.”
~ Sudharani Subramanian, India