Mental Health Awareness Month: Healing and Thriving together 2025
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Entrepreneurship is extremely stressful.
But with Asia Startup Network, you are not alone.
Dedicated to World Mental Health Month, we invite you to our annual flagship event - Healing and Thriving together 2025.
Our flagship event series aims to normalise Mental Health among entrepreneurs and startup operators - allowing us to lean into vulnerability and uplift each other within our community.
What if there was a way to access clarity, calm, and energy even in the middle of chaos?
Beyond AI and machine intelligence lies a deeper source of human intelligence we’ve forgotten to fully tap: the heart. Emerging research now proves what wisdom traditions have long known: the heart is an intelligence system in its own right, shaping the way we think, decide, and create. When we learn to access this heart–brain coherence, we unlock sharper thinking, emotional resilience, and a deeper capacity to lead with purpose.
Join us, and together, we’ll journey on a guided reflection on what it means to build meaningful legacies and a more compassionate world.
What to expect:
Light dinner provided (food ends by 6.20pm); Water cooler on-site, bring your own bottle
A special screening of the award-winning film The Heart Revolution
An exclusive AMA with Co-founder of The Heart Revolution, Benedikt Just, joined by Jaidee & Ko founder, Gary Koay
A guided HeartMath experience with Antoinette Biehlmeier, certified Focusing trainer and OTR Academy facilitator
About our Speakers
Gary Koay is many things — founder, filmmaker, dad, part-time philosopher, and full-time overthinker — still figuring out how to stay alive in today's crazy world. He runs Jaidee & Ko, a video first brand agency helping businesses create Stories Worth Telling - their stories. He believes honesty is the best policy — and that an authentic story can change people, create opportunities, and build trust.
*This is a free-admission event with registration required. If you are familiar with our event series, every year we dedicate our efforts to raising funds and awareness for a mental health charity. For this event, your donation helps Over-The-Rainbow continue empowering young people and their families through initiatives that heal, inspire, and transform lives. Every contribution counts and brings us closer to a brighter, more compassionate world. Donate here.
About the Film
The Heart Revolution is an award-winning documentary that explores the heart as a powerful source of human intelligence. It blends science and timeless wisdom to show how cultivating coherence, compassion, and clarity at the heart level transforms not just our inner world, but also the way we lead teams, build companies, shape the outer world and our collective future. For Founders charting the unknown, this film is an invitation to go inward, reconnect with the source of meaning and purpose, and discover a deeper creative intelligence that can guide us to build not just successful ventures, but a more compassionate, thriving world.
About the practice of HeartMath
Born in the mountains above Silicon Valley and backed by over 30 years of research, HeartMath discovered that the heart is far more than a pump; it’s an intelligent system that constantly communicates with the brain. When we’re stressed, the heart sends chaotic signals that cloud our thinking. But when we shift into coherence through simple practices like focused breathing and gratitude, the heart’s rhythm steadies, helping the brain think clearly and recover faster. This session introduces HeartMath as a practical tool for founders and leaders to transform stress into resilience, access clarity on demand, and lead with calm and purpose in uncertain times.
About the organisers
ASN is the leading startup platform for entrepreneurs to grow their team, network and learn from 3,000 experts, investors and industry leaders to scale their business across Asia and beyond. Established since 2020, ASN delivers impact through its 3 pillars - Academy, Community building and Venture Building.
Over-The-Rainbow (OTR) is a pioneer in youth mental wellness in Singapore, now expanding its impact to families and the wider community. Through its Circle-of-Care™ model and initiatives like OTR Listens and Wellbeing Festivals, OTR has been advancing preventive mental health for nearly 13 years. Its latest initiative, The OTR Academy, aims to train 10,000 Wellbeing Champions and Mentors by 2030, empowering parents, business leaders, and educators with the skills to support themselves and others, and building a movement for universal mental wellbeing.
About our Partners
Wantedly
Wantedly's mission is to create a world where work drives passion. As a HR Tech company, we help startups discover the right talents for the right opportunities.
With Wantedly Hire - an application tracking system optimised for modern hiring practices, experience seamless hiring with tailored workflows designed to align with your recruitment structure, automated interview scheduling, and actionable insights to optimise hiring performance!
ZENKO
Zenko Superfoods is a Singapore-based startup that makes healthy snacks from ancient superfoods.