Find your authentic story.
A 5-day residency in a secret villa. An immersive residency for creators, explorers, entrepreneurs and storytellers, led by a master storyteller, artist and five-time TED speaker, Raghava KK.
25 Creators5 Days1 Secret Villa
Live the best story you can tell.
Why come
Perfect your story with Raghava KK
"Today, we are only as good as our stories."
Take your brand pitch to the next level
Build the pitch that carries your work past the room it was written in.
Explore new ways of expressing your story
Different mediums, different mechanisms, the same true story underneath.
Wake up inspired
You will find your tribe here.
Unpack your ikigai
The Ikiguide, by Limitless, is part of what you leave with.
Be true to you
No readymade gimmicks. The most powerful stories come from deep conviction and authenticity.
Find your story in a beautiful place
Painting a collective mural, documenting the sights, sounds and smells of where you are, together.
The programme
Build your pitch
Take the story you already have and shape it into a pitch that lands.
What's in a meme?
The storytelling mechanisms behind the tales that keep getting retold.
Engage with the future
Stories define how we imagine the future.
Who it's for
Creators, entrepreneurs, journalists, designers, professors, researchers, anyone who intends to lead a creative and fulfilling life.
What's included
- One-on-one time with Raghava KK
- The Ikiguide, by Limitless
- "Kill Your Talk," Raghava’s storytelling book
- Rooms shared by 3
Facilitators
Raghava KK
Artist and storyteller
Nat Geo explorer, five-time TED speaker; co-curated Gradient Descent, the world’s first AI-as-art gallery show at Nature Morte; co-creator and co-chair of INK Fellows; curated a session at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire.
Nihal Ahmed
Founder, Limitless
Passion coach.
Jay Ahya
Founder, The Experience Co.
Jay will make sure your journey is experiential and you go back home as friends and collaborators.
Alison Wynn
Multimedia storyteller
Experiential educator.
Akshay Cherian
Business coach
Business coach.
Janet Orlene
Experiential facilitator
Facilitated the Goa edition.
On Raghava KK
CNN: "captured the TED audience’s attention as perhaps no other speaker did"
National Geographic: "pioneer in the field of participatory art"
Editions that have run
Old Kent Estate, Coorg
April 2-6, 2019
An 1864 lodge in a 200-acre coffee, pepper and cardamom plantation. Entrepreneurs, travel writers, designers, artists and educators came together here.
Vivenda dos Palhacos, South Goa
August 2019
A hundred-year-old renovated house, ten minutes’ walk from the beach. Facilitators for this edition included Janet Orlene.
Rajasthan
November 25-29, 2019
A 14th-century hill fort turned resort, in an ancient city in Rajasthan. Wood furnishings and stone arches, ramparts overlooking farmland. Facilitators: Raghava KK, Akshay Cherian, Nihal Ahmed, Jay Ahya and Alison Wynn.
Voices from the residency
"Although we all knew at the end we had to narrate a story, we never felt like we had to glorify it, only celebrate it within ourselves. I learnt that it’s okay to not always be an achiever of things."
Neha Patil · Coorg
"I am a changed person for sure after this residency. I’m changed for good. And I can see everybody around me here experiencing this."
Mehul · Entrepreneur and mentor · Coorg
"What surprised me was that this residency was very practical, and gave me a lot of direction that I didn’t even know I was looking for."
Pooja · Actor and writer · Coorg
"Each day challenged new parts of my mind to think deeper and heart to connect stronger."
Jordan · Happiness Director, started the world’s first TEDx in a prison
Brought to you by
Limitless (Nihal Ahmed) + The Experience Co.
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