Startup Service

Startup Service is an initiative for turning your service intention into action. It brings together people from diverse backgrounds and facilitates the process of starting a new project, adding momentum to an existing project, or collaborating with like-hearted participants on emerging projects.

At its core, we aim to ask how entrepreneurs lead their social change work with love and inner transformation? Deep within, we know that compassion is the innate quality of our being. Yet, as we start projects or run organizations, and engage with traditional systems (e.g. financial, economic, political, social, educational systems) rooted in fear or greed, we can start to question how "practical" it is to lead with these values. At Startup Service, we want to hold these difficult questions together. We want to think creatively about different forms of capital; we want to deepen our understanding of incentives beyond money, power, fame and impact; we want to design with a longer time horizon. We don't have the answers, but after having hosted numerous retreats around these topics, we know that if like-hearted people come together, a new field of collective intelligence awaits us and the world.

At this retreat, we are particularly inspired to host various entrepreneurs, wisdom-keepers, and some visiting international friends like Nipun Mehta (founder of ServiceSpace, which has recently been working creatively around AI + Heart Intelligence).

We invite you join this 1-day retreat in Auroville, whether you are a project initiator or want to engage with someone's labor-of-love venture, whether you are a seasoned industry veteran or a budding entrepreneur. Together, perhaps we can chart a new path that leads with heart intelligence!