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Design your next 25 years

You have audited everything you own. Except your years.

3–4 January 2027 · Fairmont Mumbai

A residential summit where the world’s leading voices on joy, health and love help you find out where you stand, and plan 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 built the Joyspan Index around it.

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 Index itself is taken with you on the first morning of the summit.

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What you find out · What you take home

An honest picture of where you stand.

  1. Find out where you stand

    On the first morning: your AIWO Joyspan Index across six domains, with the AIWO 100 test.

  2. Your tests

    A home blood test, and a sleep apnea test during your stay or at home.

  3. Your plan

    A personal Joyspan plan built from your Index and AIWO 100 results. Every guest also receives the printed Joyspan Edition.

  4. Your follow-through

    Doctor, dietician and psychologist consultations after the summit, and a 90-day follow-up action plan.

The Index is a structured self-assessment across six areas of life, combined with your AIWO 100 test results, used to build your personal plan. It is not a medical test or a validated scientific measure.

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
  • Take homeA home blood test
  • Take homeA sleep apnea test, during your stay or at home
  • ExperienceImmersive Yoga: breath and movement between talks
  • Take homeA two-night AIWO Sleepcation: Mumbai between 2 and 5 January, or Chennai on dates you choose

Purpose

  • VoiceDr Kerry Burnight on why the second half can be the most joyful half
  • VoiceC. Sivasankaran’s Joyspiration keynote
  • Take homeYour personal Joyspan plan, with a clear next step

Relationships

  • VoiceDr John Gray on staying close to the people you love
  • CouplesA psychologist consultation as a couple, and couple experience zones
  • EliteDr Marc Brackett’s 90-minute couples workshop, for the 40 Elite couples together
  • 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
  • Take homeA 90-day follow-up action plan, built from your results

Daily Pleasure

  • VoiceDr Anna Lembke on finding balance in an age of indulgence
  • Take homeThe Wardrobe, made for you: House of Manish Malhotra and 100 Hands, with PKIN
  • ExperienceBreakfast, lunch and dinner at any restaurant in Fairmont Mumbai
  • EliteSpa access for massage therapies, and a welcome bottle of champagne or wine

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
  • Take homeDoctor, dietician and psychologist consultations after the summit

The Wardrobe

In collaboration with the House of Manish Malhotra, 100 Hands and PKIN

Made to measure. Made for you.

Part of your ticket: women’s by the House of Manish Malhotra, men’s by 100 Hands, with PKIN, plus night suits. Measured and fitted at home after you book, ready to wear on both summit days.

  1. By 15 DecemberMeasured, after you book
  2. By 25 DecemberFitted at home
  3. 3 and 4 JanuaryWorn at the summit
House of Manish Malhotra

For women

  • Filmfare Award, Best Costume Design
  • Met Gala 2024 and 2025
100 Hands

For men

  • From Amritsar to Harrods
  • About 1.5 days of handwork per shirt
PKIN

In collaboration

Manish Malhotra

Agenda at a glance

The programme, day by day.

  • 3 JanuaryWelcome address
  • First morningYour AIWO Joyspan Index and AIWO 100 test, so every session that follows is about you
  • KeynotesDr Marc Brackett and Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, each with a fireside conversation; Prof. Vikram Patel; Dr John Gray; and live online, Dr Kerry Burnight and Prof. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
  • JoyspirationThe Joyspiration keynote with C. Sivasankaran, Mentor, AIWO
  • Your planYour personal Joyspan plan, built from your Index and AIWO 100 results
  • EliteDr Marc Brackett’s 90-minute couples workshop, for the 40 Elite couples together
  • Both daysExperience zones alongside the sessions, including Immersive Yoga and private OMMPODS. You wear your Wardrobe on both days.
  • 4 JanuaryVote of thanks and close

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 shows where you stand.

C. Sivasankaran · Mentor, AIWO

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. When you leave

    Leave with your plan

    Your Joyspan Index results and your personal Joyspan plan, with the printed Joyspan Edition.

  2. After the summit

    Your consultations

    Doctor, dietician and psychologist consultations after the summit.

  3. 90 days

    Your 90-day action plan

    A follow-up action plan built from your results, running to early April 2027.

  4. Your choice

    Your AIWO Sleepcation

    Two nights in Mumbai between 2 and 5 January, or in Chennai on dates of your choice.

Your seat

Six hundred places in all, including forty Elite suites.

Arrive 31 December 2026 · Summit 3–4 January 2027 · Depart 6 January 2027 · All prices inclusive of taxes

Joyspan

Single · 1 guest

₹7.5 lakh

for one guest · inclusive of taxes

Stay
A room at Fairmont Mumbai, 31 December to 6 January. Breakfast, lunch and dinner at any Fairmont restaurant.
Includes
Your Index and AIWO 100 test, a home blood test, your Wardrobe, personal plan, printed Edition and 90-day follow-up.
Payment
Full payment at booking
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Elite

Couple · 2 guests · Forty suites

₹15 lakh

for two guests · inclusive of taxes

Stay
A suite at Roswyn for the two of you, 31 December to 6 January.
Includes
Everything in Joyspan for each of you, plus spa access for massage therapies, welcome champagne or a bottle of wine, and Dr Marc Brackett’s 90-minute couples workshop for the 40 Elite couples together.
Booking
Full payment at booking. Bookings are confirmed on full payment.
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Everything included, side by side

Joyspan · single ₹7.5 lakh · 1 guest

What each ticket includes
IncludedJoyspan · single₹7.5 lakh · 1 guestJoyspan · couple₹12 lakh · 2 guestsElite · couple₹15 lakh · 2 guests
Find out where you stand
Your AIWO Joyspan Index, on the first morningIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
AIWO 100 testIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
Home blood testIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
Sleep apnea test, during your stay or at homeIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
Doctor, dietician and psychologist consultations after the summitIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
Psychologist consultation as a coupleNot includedIncludedIncluded
On-site medical teamIncludedIncludedIncluded
Made for you
The Wardrobe: House of Manish Malhotra (women), 100 Hands (men), PKIN, plus night suitsIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
Your personal Joyspan planIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
The printed Joyspan EditionIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
90-day follow-up action planIncludedIncludedeachIncludedeach
The programme
Every talk, with speakers in person and live onlineIncludedIncludedIncluded
Experience zones, including Immersive Yoga and private OMMPODSIncludedIncludedIncluded
Couple experience zonesNot includedIncludedIncluded
Dr Marc Brackett’s 90-minute couples workshop, for the 40 Elite couples togetherNot includedNot includedIncluded
Time with 600 fellow guestsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Stay
Your roomRoom, Fairmont MumbaiOne shared room, Fairmont MumbaiSuite, Roswyn
Arrive 31 December, depart 6 JanuaryIncludedIncludedIncluded
Airport transfersIncludedIncludedIncluded
The Next 25 Years dinner, 31 DecemberIncludedIncludedIncluded
Breakfast, lunch and dinner at any restaurant in Fairmont MumbaiIncludedIncludedIncluded
Spa access for massage therapiesNot includedNot includedIncluded
Welcome champagne or a bottle of wineNot includedNot includedIncluded
After the summit
Two-night AIWO Sleepcation: Mumbai between 2 and 5 January, or Chennai on dates you chooseIncludedIncludedIncluded

Full payment at booking · No deposit or instalments · Paid to AIWO Limited, which issues your receipt and tax invoice · All payments are non-refundable

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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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Joyspan for one · ₹7.5 lakh

Full payment at booking, inclusive of taxes. Bookings are confirmed on full payment.

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No. No commercial presentations are made from the stage, there are no product demonstrations, and no guest data is shared with sponsors. Sponsors never see your individual results.

Nine thousand mornings, give or take

The years are coming either way.

Design them.

Make room for joy.

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