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You have audited everything you own. Except your years.

3–4 January 2027 · Fairmont Mumbai

A two-day residential summit where the world’s leading voices on joy, health and love help you design the next twenty-five years: the one asset that never appears on a statement.

The voices

The voices behind the science of a joyful life. In person, and live into the room.

Portrait of Dr Marc Brackett

Dr Marc Brackett

Founding Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence · Professor, Yale Child Study Center

In person

What you take home

The skill to understand what you feel, and use it rather than be ruled by it.

Background

Lead developer of RULER, adopted by thousands of schools in the US and abroad. Author of Permission to Feel. With the summit for its first three editions, 2027 to 2029.

Recognition

  • Permission to Feel, translated into 22 languages
  • Joseph E. Zins Award for research on social and emotional learning
  • More than 125 scholarly articles
  • Adviser to Google, Microsoft and Facebook on emotional intelligence
Official profile

More voices to be announced.

The quiet arithmetic

Twenty-five years is roughly nine thousand mornings.

How many will you be glad to wake up for?

Your family will not remember your returns. They will remember whether you were present.

18,250 lived

Between now and age 75, you have about 9,125 mornings. The summit is about making more of them worth waking up for.

Lifespan counts your years.

Healthspan counts your healthy ones.

Joyspan counts the ones you are glad you lived.

From gerontologist Dr Kerry Burnight’s bestselling book Joyspan. AIWO has made it measurable.

The other balance sheet

Try the idea in sixty seconds.

Move each slider to where you honestly stand today. Watch your shape change.

How capable and energetic does your body feel?

How strong is your reason to wake up?

How close are you to the people who matter?

How much do you own your time and choices?

How often do you enjoy ordinary days?

How much suffering do you carry that you do not need to?

Your biggest gain may be waiting in Daily Pleasure.

A quick reflection, not your AIWO Joyspan Index. The real Index is measured with you at the summit.

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How the AIWO Joyspan Index works

An honest picture of where you stand.

  1. Assessed across six domains

    Healthspan, Purpose, Relationships, Freedom, Daily Pleasure and Preventable Suffering.

  2. Your Joyspan Edition

    A printed report showing where you stand on each domain and where your biggest gains are waiting.

  3. Your plan

    A personal Joyspan plan and a 90-day action plan built from your results. Sponsors never see individual results.

What you will actually experience

Six domains of joy. Each one brought to life in the room.

Each part of a joyful life has a voice, an experience and something you take home.

Healthspan

  • VoiceProf. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath on keeping an Indian mind sharp for life
  • VoiceDr Nerina Ramlakhan on sleep and recovery
  • ExperienceImmersive Yoga: breath and movement between talks
  • Take homeA two-night AIWO Sleepcation after the summit
  • EliteA private skin-age reading

Purpose

  • VoiceDr Kerry Burnight on why the second half can be the most joyful half
  • Take homeYour personal Joyspan plan, with a clear next step
  • EliteA one-to-one psychologist session on what you want your next 25 years to feel like

Relationships

  • VoiceDr John Gray on staying close to the people you love
  • CouplesA session with Dr Marc Brackett, first come, first served
  • ExperienceTwo days among 600 people who chose to take their lives seriously

Freedom

  • VoiceDr Marc Brackett on using your emotions rather than being ruled by them
  • EliteA private hour with the speaker of your choice

Daily Pleasure

  • VoiceDr Anna Lembke on finding balance in an age of indulgence
  • ExperienceThe Wardrobe: a made-to-measure fitting with Manish Malhotra and 100Hands
  • ExperienceTwo nights at Fairmont Mumbai, every meal included
  • EliteIn-room massage, and your welcome drink waiting

Less suffering

  • VoiceProf. Vikram Patel on the suffering we accept as normal, and how to prevent it
  • ExperienceOMMPODS: private meditation pods where the room falls away

The Wardrobe

In collaboration with Manish Malhotra and 100Hands

Made to measure. Made by hand.

A personal fitting for custom clothing, curated with one of India’s most celebrated couturiers and a house whose shirts are hand-made by artisans in Amritsar. Because the way you carry yourself changes the way you feel.

Manish Malhotra
  • Filmfare Award, Best Costume Design
  • Met Gala 2024 and 2025
100 Hands
  • From Amritsar to Harrods
  • About 1.5 days of handwork per shirt
Manish Malhotra

Agenda at a glance

The programme, day by day.

  • Your AIWO Joyspan Index assessment, so every session that follows is about you
  • All dayBetween talks: The Wardrobe fittings, Immersive Yoga and private OMMPODS

Session times and speaker order are confirmed with your booking.

Why this exists

Built by someone who had to live it first.

“Money could pay lawyers, advisers and professionals. It could not manufacture meaning.”

For more than a decade, C. Sivasankaran lived through a crisis that wealth could not solve. What carried him, he later called Joyspiration. Joyspan is the goal. Joyspiration is how he lived it. The Index measures where you stand.

C. Sivasankaran · Founder of Joyspiration

Read his story
C. Sivasankaran

In his words

There was a time in my life when I believed that wealth could protect you.

I had wealth. But wealth could not give me peace when I needed peace.

When your problem becomes bigger than your future, despair begins. When your future becomes bigger than your problem, energy returns.

You do not have to wait for suffering to end before allowing joy to begin.

Six hundred people. Not one of them there to sell to you.

  • No pitches
  • No product demonstrations
  • Sponsors never see your individual results

How your Joyspan grows after you leave

Two days in the room. Ninety days of follow-through.

The summit is where it starts. The 90 days after are designed to help what you learn become how you live.

  1. Day 1

    Leave with your plan

    Your Joyspan Index, printed Joyspan Edition and personal plan, with one clear next step for each domain.

  2. Weeks 1–12

    Your 90-day action plan

    Small, specific weekly actions for each domain in your plan.

  3. Any time

    Your AIWO Sleepcation

    Two nights in Chennai on dates of your choice, or in Mumbai straight after the summit.

Your seat

Six hundred residential places. Forty Elite suites.

Summit days 3–4 January 2027 · Fairmont Mumbai · All prices inclusive of taxes

Joyspan

For one

₹7.5 lakh

per person · inclusive of taxes

Stay
Two nights at Fairmont Mumbai: arrive 2 January, leave 4 January after the closing session. All meals included.
Includes
The complete summit: every talk, every experience, your Index, plan and 90-day follow-up.
Deposit
₹1.5 lakh today · balance ₹6 lakh
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Elite

Forty suites · By invitation

₹15 lakh

inclusive of taxes

Stay
A guaranteed suite from lunch on 1 January.
Includes
Everything in Joyspan, plus private time with the speakers and specialists.
Booking
Our concierge confirms your suite, then sends your deposit link.
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Everything included, side by side

Joyspan · one ₹7.5 lakh

What each ticket includes
IncludedJoyspan · one₹7.5 lakhJoyspan · couple₹12 lakhElite₹15 lakh
Stay
Fairmont Mumbai stay2 nights, 2–4 Jan2 nights, 2–4 Jan, for twoGuaranteed suite from 1 Jan
All meals during your stayIncludedIncludedIncluded
Welcome drink of your choice, waiting on arrivalNot includedNot includedIncluded
In-room massageNot includedNot includedIncluded
The programme
Every talk, with speakers in person and live onlineIncludedIncludedIncluded
The Wardrobe: made-to-measure with Manish Malhotra and 100HandsIncludedIncludedeachIncluded
Immersive Yoga and private OMMPODSIncludedIncludedIncluded
Private meeting with the speaker of your choiceNot includedNot includedIncluded
One-to-one session with a psychologist on your next 25 yearsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Private skin-age reading with an aesthetic specialistNot includedNot includedIncluded
Time with 600 fellow guestsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Your Joyspan
Your AIWO Joyspan IndexIncludedIncludedeachIncluded
Your printed Joyspan Edition and personal planIncludedIncludedeachIncluded
After the summit
90-day follow-up action planIncludedIncludedeachIncluded
Two-night AIWO Sleepcation, in Chennai on your dates or in Mumbai after the summitIncludedIncludedIncluded

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With Dr Marc Brackett, Prof. Vikram Patel, Dr Anna Lembke and four more voices · Fairmont Mumbai · 3–4 January 2027

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No. Nobody in the room is there to sell to you, there are no product demonstrations, and sponsors never see your individual results.

Nine thousand mornings, give or take

The years are coming either way.

Design them.

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