Reconnect with your Essential Self and reclaim the energy you’ve been spending on outdated identities. Release what’s holding you back and reconnect with the life you came here to build.
Thought Labs Connect
Three unforgettable days in South Goa to reconnect with your aliveness, experience the power of a thriving community, and step into 2027 full of energy.
Why we gather
Survival mode is quiet. It doesn’t announce itself. It just slowly takes the colour out of everything — the work, the relationships, the mornings.
Thought Labs Connect – Fully Alive is our annual homecoming – a space to pause, connect with yourself and with the larger Thought Labs tribe. Across three immersive days, you’ll explore how to move beyond survival mode into a life filled with energy, presence and possibility. Through transformational sessions, nature-anchored rituals on the beach, meaningful conversations and soulful celebration, you’ll rediscover what makes you truly feel alive.
This is our moment to honour how far we’ve come — and to shape what we build next. Together.
What changes in three days
Four shifts you’ll experience before you go back home.
01 / Reconnect
Back to yourself, back to the tribe
Reconnect with yourself and our tribe that is holding space for you to be at your best.
02 / Move beyond
Out of survival mode
Move beyond exhaustion into feeling fully alive again.
03 / Find allies
People who stay
Find allies & support that will walk beside you long after Goa.
04 / Reenergise
Vitality, not just inspiration
Reenergise your spirit so you leave not just inspired, but with new found vitality from within and excitement towards life.
The shape of it
Four threads running through every day.
Why the flow works
Nothing shifts at one level alone.
Insight without the body is a nice idea. The three days are built to move all three at once.
Mind
Pattern & identity
Body
Breath & rhythm
Soul
Presence & belonging
The programme
Three days, dawn to well past dark.
Follow the rail — it moves with the light, from first breath to last song.
Friday — 27 November
Arrival & opening
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Welcoming & Frame Setting |
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12:00 – 01:00 pm |
Parallel Masterclasses |
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01:00 – 02:30 pm |
Lunch & Check in |
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02:30 – 05:15 pm |
Session Nishith Shah |
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05:30 – 07:00 pm |
Break & Sunset On The Beach |
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07:00 – 08:30 pm |
Dinner |
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08:30 – 10:00 pm |
Mafia evening Community game |
Saturday — 28 November
The full day
| 07:00 – 08:00 am | Session Gene Early |
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08:00 – 09:30 am |
Breakfast |
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09:30 – 10:00 am |
Open Frame Nishith Shah |
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10:00 – 11:00 am |
Session Karin Rohner |
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11:00 – 11:30 am |
Break |
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11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
Parallel Masterclasses Thought Labs faculty |
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12:30 – 02:00 pm |
Lunch |
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02:00 – 03:00 pm |
Parallel Masterclasses Thought Labs Faculty |
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03:00 – 05:15 pm |
Modelling Session Nishith Shah |
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05:15 – 07:00 pm |
Break & Sunset Dialogues |
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07:30 pm onwards |
Dinner, Celebration & Music |
Sunday — 29 November
Integration & close
| 08:30 – 09:30 am | Mind–Body Connection |
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09:30 – 10:30 am |
Breakfast & Check Out |
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10:30 – 11:00 am |
Open frame Nishith Shah |
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11:00 am – 01:00 pm |
Session & Closure Nishith Shah |
Who’s holding the room
Co-created and led by our own.
Founders, faculty and community leaders — the people this tribe was built with.
The Aliveness Structure
With Nishith Shah
Reconnect with your Essential Self and reclaim the energy you’ve been spending on outdated identities. Release what’s holding you back and reconnect with the life you came here to build.
The Awareness Of Being
With Karin Rohner
Being fully alive is not dependent on the quality of our experience, but on noticing the awareness behind it. Explore how this awareness can connect you with a deeper sense of being alive.
A Pocketful Of Possibility:
See. Hear. Feel. Shift.
With Sridevi Vadakoot
Discover how colour, sound, movement and breath can shift your state and reconnect you with presence, ease and creativity. Leave with a pocketful of simple tools to restore yourself and feel more resourceful.
TBA
With TBA
TBA
A World That No Longer
Needs Us
With Nishith Shah & Jannie O Connor
What does it take to live with purpose for 20+ years? Discover through live NLP modelling the beliefs, identity and inner structure that turn purpose into sustained action — and explore what it means for your own life.
Being Alive Through Longevity And Life Extension
With Vikram Divakaran
TBA
The Limitless Way:
Trusting the Unknown
With Deep Thakkar
Explore how to let go of overthinking, trust yourself in the unknown, and discover the limitless possibilities and resources within you.
Don’t Look At The Coin:
The Art Of Staying Open
With Sareeta Vala
What if staying open is where aliveness lives? Explore how to hold uncertainty without rushing to an answer, reopen possibilities you’ve already ruled out, and choose from curiosity rather than the need for certainty.
Body-Mind Connection
With Carolyn Chittilappilly
Yoga, breath and presence practices to prime your nervous system for growth.
Saying Yes To Life:
The Whole Of It
With Nishith Shah
What happens when you stop waiting for certainty and fully step into life? Explore what’s holding you back, access your full capacity, and say a bold yes to the vision, discomfort and unknown of truly living.
A personal note
A small village by the beach in South Goa. Kind-hearted people, long empty sand, and a quality of light that does something to a room full of people.
This is where we ran our first NLP immersive. It will always be close to my heart. Serene, soulful, celebratory — the right home for Fully Alive.
From people who were there
Real people. Real transformation.
“What we actually need as humans is this. It is connecting, it is oneness, the power of people, the power of NLP concepts, the power of fun.”
Financial Advisor & NLP Trainer
“Every modality that was taught is profound, transformational and mind blowing.”
Counselling Psychologist
“It has empowered me. There has been so much awareness for me as a person — and then there is the confidence I’ve started building on myself.”
Image Consultant
“Truly special is the environment. The people around, the whole collaboration, the deep feeling of absolute care and openness and no judgement. It is really a community thing.”
Lawyer, UK
“It is helping me to see life with more purpose. It is giving me clarity of the goals I have for myself, my company, and the greater good.”
Business Owner
“It is life changing.”
Yoga Instructor
How to join
Three steps, about five minutes.
Step 01
Reserve your seat
Submit your details and secure your place. Seats are limited and go early.
Step 02
Book your stay
Someone from our team gets in touch to help you sort accommodation at Talpona.
Step 03
Arrive open
Come as you are. Leave expanded, with real energy for 2027.
A personal note
Fully Alive is more than a gathering. It’s a celebration of what this community has built together — the courage, the care, the impact. A chance to recognise how far we’ve come, and to step boldly into what we’re creating next.
Can’t wait to share these three days with you. To celebrate, to learn, and to dream bigger than we have before.
— Nishith 🙏
27–29 November 2026 · Talpona Beach, Goa
Three days that decide the energy you carry into next year.
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