“Drink from the well of yourself, and begin again.”
— Charles Bukowski
Heartpreneurship is an intimate 12-week cohort for humans building, or aspiring to build something meaningful, and who are ready to show up fully for the process it takes.
This is a weekend-only live course with a small group size of 6–8 people, and asks for your full presence, reflection, and practice. The program integrates timeless principles of life design, nature and permaculture thinking, mindfulness, personal spirituality, and modern science to help you dismantle what's holding you back and bring what has long lived in your heart into grounded action.
Format and Commitment
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12 Weeks | Every Saturday: May 2 – July 18, 2026
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Orientation: April 25, 2026
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Cohort Size: 8 participants
This is a camera-on, live participation space. Participants are expected to:
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Attend sessions in full
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Engage in dialogue
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Complete reflection exercises
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Prototype something real before the program ends.
Between sessions, you will engage in short readings and practical exercises to deepen integration. You may also schedule one optional 30-minute 1:1 clarity session each week during the program.
This is for you, if:
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You are sitting with an idea, evolution, or transition. Whether you are a solopreneur ready to expand your team and operations, a corporate professional seeking to step into a new identity you have been quietly growing into, a non-profit leader exploring a shift toward a for-profit model without losing your values, or someone standing at the edge of an idea that feels new, uncertain, and without clear reference points.
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You thrive in multi-skilling and done shrinking into one label. Practising just one skill leaves you under-expressed. You feel most alive when you are integrating your diverse abilities and bringing all your colours into your work. You are thinking about how to monetise your range... not by narrowing it down, but by designing a path that can hold its full expression.
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You want clarity without losing your sensitivity, values, and integrity. You have trusted your heart deeply, and at times, perhaps excessively, believing that staying true to your values was enough. Sometimes, that devotion has led to over-giving, blurred boundaries, stalled progress, or confusion. You are not looking to dilute your values. You are ready to ground them in discernment, structure, and wiser decision-making.
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You care about building work that contributes — socially, culturally, and/ or ecologically. Even if it begins with you, you do not want the joy or the wealth to remain contained. You are drawn to models of enterprise that create shared value. You are exploring whether social and environmental responsibility can be integrated with financial viability, without compromising either.
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You are exploring or already engaged in social entrepreneurship, community-based work, or purpose-led enterprise. Yet you may not see enough examples around you of people sustaining this path long-term. You are seeking community... not for validation, but for resonance, while holding a genuine desire to contribute to a more just and equitable world.
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You are willing to prototype 'imperfectly'. You are ready to begin, to test, to learn quickly, and to refine without drama. You are open to eliminating what does not work until you arrive at what can genuinely thrive.
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You are willing to be fully present, on-camera, and treat this space like a physical classroom. You are prepared to be uncomfortable, to be coached, and to hold space for others as they hold space for you. You understand that your growth is strengthened by collective growth, and that success in this room is shared, not individual.
How Heartpreneurship Unfolds, and What You'll Walk Away With
Heartpreneurship runs over 12 weeks and moves through three phases.
The arc moves from identity → expression → prototype.
Weeks 1 to 4: Identity
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Drink from Your Well: We examine what you’ve been trying, what hasn’t worked, and where misalignment exists. Through reflection and guided inquiry, you reconnect with your original impulse to build and design a reverse timeline grounded in your values and lived wisdom.
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Diversepreneurship: You integrate your multidimensional skills, lessons, and wealth into a coherent whole. We dismantle the myth of “pick one thing” and explore your relationship with money, value creation, and life intentions.
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White Space Thinking: You learn to see resources and possibilities you’ve been overlooking by dismantling biases and thinking beyond constraints. Through visualisation and grounded practice, you design from originality rather than templates.
Weeks 5 to 8: Expression
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Energy Before Strategy: You identify energy leaks, emotional patterns, and nervous system responses that shape your work. Instead of managing time, you learn to manage energy and design work aligned with your temperament.
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Effective Communication: You refine how you express yourself… in writing, relationships, and leadership without jargon or performance. The focus shifts from impressing to resonance and aligned visibility.
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Collaboration Without Self-Abandonment: You examine where you over-function, where you avoid, and how you relate in partnerships. The aim is to collaborate without losing your voice, boundaries, or independence.
Weeks 9 to 12: Prototype
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Risk, Rejection & Prototype: You prepare to prototype your idea with psychological stamina. Instead of collapsing in the face of rejection or delay, you respond with grounded clarity and action.
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Detachment & Sustainability: You re-centre in your life’s intentions and learn to detach identity from work. The goal is to create without being consumed, and to pursue contribution without self-abandonment.
Investment
South Asian Countries (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh): INR 24,000 (~ USD 290)
Rest of the World: USD 350
Program Calendar
Orientation: April 25, Saturday | 19:00 IST - 20:00 IST
Program Dates:
Every Saturday | 19:00 IST - 21:00 IST
May 2 to July 18, 2026
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About Mani Mahesh Aurora
Mani Mahesh Aurora is an ICF-trained life design and mental health coach, award-winning social entrepreneur, author, and educator whose work sits at the intersection of inner clarity, social impact, and enterprise.
He earned his first paycheque in radio at the age of 11 and went on to work across broadcast, print, and digital media before transitioning into grassroots entrepreneurship in his early twenties. Since then, he has co-founded rural enterprises, contributed to community-led entrepreneurial models, and worked with founders, filmmakers, researchers, technologists, wellness practitioners, and leaders across India, Sweden, the USA, Australia, Central Asia, Canada, and Europe.
His work bridges lived experience with structured thinking, integrating life design, permaculture and ecological principles, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and grounded strategy.
Mani’s work is shaped as much by failure and transition as by success, including rejections, uncertainties, and experiments that did not work. These experiences inform the steadiness and realism he brings into the room.
Participants often work with him not because they lack ideas, but because they seek alignment: clarity without losing sensitivity, leadership without performance, and growth without self-betrayal.
Heartpreneurship is an extension of this lived body of work.
