[Bangalore] Startup + Service

Location: Sadashiv Nagar, North Bangalore

Duration: --

Without passion, nothing happens. Without compassion, wrong things happen. - Jan Eliasson 

Startups increasingly play a key role in shaping the culture and behaviour of our society. At Startup+Service, we aim to come together for a deeper integration of entrepreneurial skills with eternal compassion.

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.  

We invite you join this 1-day retreat in Bengaluru, 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 (for-profit or not-for-profit). Together, perhaps we can chart a new path that leads with heart intelligence!

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Today's world is designed around cultivating the intelligence of the head and hands, but we have very limited spaces to understand and grow our hearts. If we can tap into the intersection of hands, head and heart and even go a step beyond to lead with our heart's intelligence, we can ignite the 'law of love' that Gandhi said would work with just as much precision as the laws that govern gravity and electricity. In this retreat, we aim to collectively ignite that intelligence of heart and reflect on its skilful application for personal and collective transformation. (For a bit of a flavor of the emergence, here are some glimpses from a recent gathering.)

Simply put, we are a group of ordinary individuals, who come alive in doing small acts of kindness. Volunteers behind this particular retreat have hosted thousands of circles and hundreds of Moved by Love retreats; moreover, they have supported many ServiceSpace projects from Karuna News to Karma Kitchen.

  • Inspiring participants. Lots of great hearts are coming together!
  • Uncommon questions. For quick-fix, binary, either-or answers, we already have Google; we aim to hold questions to lean into its nuances first.
  • Noble Friendships. Our hope is to nurture a rich matrix of friendships among unlikely friends.
  • Volunteer Run. It's run entirely by volunteers, so there's no solicitation, pitches, agendas. Just practice of love.

To be decided, watch out! 

All Moved By Love retreats are offered as a no-strings-attached gift, made possible by gratitude offerings from past alumni. At the end of all retreats, everyone has an opportunity to keep the chain alive and pay it forward with money, time or other expressions of wealth -- for future guests.

The retreat formally begins on 10:00AM on Jan 5th (Sunday), 2025. Please ensure you reach the retreat venue before that. If needed, outstation guests are welcome to arrive on the previous evening.

Retreat ends at Sunday, Jan 5th @ 5PM. Most participants will leave during the evening, but in case you need to stay back for the night, we will be happy to arrange that.

Please note that is mandatory to be present with us for the entire duration of the retreat. And during the retreat, you won’t have space to take other meetings or step out of the campus.

Through our time together, we will sit in circles to learn from each other’s experiments and challenges; hear and engage with some innovative speakers across sectors; engage in many group practices that nurture our collective inner transformation. Plenty of opportunities to engage the head, hands and of course the heart. Plus a few surprises!

Over last twelve years, thousands have joined from a wide-ranging backgrounds. Perhaps what brought them together was a simple organizing principle: We are not merely what we do, but who we become by what we do. If you resonate with the notion that inner change and outer change are intrixicably intertwined, and if you are moved to cultivate deep connections with kindred spirits, this retreat will likely speak to you! Beyond that, we'd recommend leaning in your heart's intuition -- more often than not, 'heart knows today what the mind will know tomorrow.' :)

To facilitate deeper connections, we limit the group size of our gatherings -- and give priority to project initiators who are anchoring local projects in their contexts.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us anytime. To co-create our sacred field of emergence, we welcome you join us!

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