RESET 2026 also features FREE one-on-one counselling sessions throughout the day, facilitated by practitioners well-versed in couples counselling, youth and adolescent support, and workplace dynamics. These sessions provide participants with access to immediate, confidential psychosocial support tailored to relational, personal, and professional challenges.

THEMES

Reconnecting With Ourselves

Reviving Romance

Conscious Connection in the Workplace

Mindful Parenting in the Modern World

SESSIONS

Reconnect

Manisha Billimoria

Psychotherapist and Founding Director of Umbartha

13:30 PM – 15:00 PM

Manisha Billimoria is a psychotherapist with over 14 years of experience, offering a deeply holistic, body-aligned approach to healing and trauma resolution. Her work is rooted in two core frameworks: Compassionate Inquiry, developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, and Dr. Aimie Apigian’s Biology of Trauma, which together support clients in understanding emotional pain at its roots and allowing the innate wisdom of the body to guide healing.

Manisha has completed Mastery Level training in the Biology of Trauma and serves as a mentor within the program, supporting practitioners in deepening their somatic and trauma-informed work. Her extensive training enables her to hold complex therapeutic processes with safety, clarity, and compassion.

Her practice integrates somatic work, breathwork, and movement therapy to support the nervous system to safely process and release stored trauma. This embodied foundation is complemented by her background in art therapy as well as her training in REBT, EMDR, and SST, allowing her to tailor therapy to each client’s unique needs.

Manisha’s approach is both gentle and transformative, creating spaces where insight, embodiment, and emotional integration come together to support lasting healing.

Summary of the Session

As you begin to understand your body more deeply, space naturally opens for greater alignment between your mind and body. Reconnect supports you in moving away from automatic, unhealthy patterns of reaction and towards more conscious, compassionate responses. It is about learning how to meet yourself with awareness and care. The session includes gentle somatic exercises, guided reflection, and light coaching, all offered in a safe and supportive space. Reconnect is an invitation to begin a healthier, kinder relationship with yourself — one where your body is listened to, supported, and trusted.

Session Pricing: 2,500 LKR

Rediscovering Ourselves and Evolving as Mothers

Ravindi Peiris

Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher 

16:30 PM – 18:00 PM

Ravindi Peiris is a certified Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher and a 50-hour Trauma-Informed Somatic Yin Yoga Teacher. She facilitates mindfulness coaching sessions for individuals, small groups, and corporate settings, supporting people in cultivating self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience. She is the Founder of Colour You, a community platform dedicated to promoting mental health, creative expression, and personal development, creating accessible spaces for connection, healing, and growth.

Alongside her wellness work, Ravindi brings over 12 years of experience in the private sector within Banking and Financial Services. She currently works at Acuity Knowledge Partners, supporting a large European bank within Lending Services, covering the Commodities, Food, and Agriculture sector across Asia. Her previous experience spans both international and local banks in Sri Lanka, with expertise in cross-border credit and lending, trade finance, liquidity and cash management solutions, sustainable finance, and development finance

Ravindi’s work is deeply informed by her lived experience as a mother of two, grounding her professional and personal journey in compassion, balance, and mindful leadership.

Summary of the Session

This session will explore practical Mindfulness techniques and Somatic exercises focusing on the Mind-body connection, to build self awareness, regulate our nervous system and live more intentionally. The session will further focus on our role as Mothers and how Mindfulness tools can be utilized to reconnect with ourselves and our evolving sense of purpose to build fulfillment and resilience in the long run.

Session Pricing: 2,500 LKR

Embrace Yourself

Shimali Perera

Art Therapist

13:30 PM – 15:30 PM

Shimali Perera, AThR (B.S. Psychology, MA Art Therapy), is a qualified Art Therapist with a master’s degree in Art Therapy and professional registration with the Australian, New Zealand & Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA). She has been practicing in Sri Lanka for over ten years, working with both adults and children across clinical and community settings.

Shimali collaborates with Vida Medical Center and Ninewells Family Wellness, offering individual art therapy sessions and facilitating experiential art therapy workshops. Her therapeutic work supports individuals navigating depression, anxiety disorders, anger and unforgiveness, stress, grief, trauma, physical illness, and challenges faced by single-parent families.

In addition to her clinical practice, Shimali conducts Art Therapy Experiential Workshops focused on de-stress and self-compassion for corporate organisations, schools, and NGOs. Her approach integrates psychological insight with creative expression, offering safe, compassionate spaces for healing, emotional regulation, and personal growth.

Summary of the Session

This Art Therapy Experiential Workshop invites you to a time of reflective art making and personal reflections that will enhance one’s self awareness and increase in self-love and self-compassion coupled with much needed me-time. It will be a non-judgemental and safe space with no background knowledge in art required.

Session Pricing: 3,000 LKR

Love Will Keep Us Together (And Other Helpful Myths)

Sukanya Wignaraja

Certified Solution Focused Therapist, Professional Certified Coach

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Sukanya Wignaraja is a counsellor and solution-focused therapist with 20 years’ international experience supporting mental health, life transitions, and personal growth.

She began her professional journey as a clinical social worker in the UK. As her life and work took her from the UK to the Philippines, Japan, and eventually Sri Lanka, Sukanya continued her clinical practice while deepening her training in Solution Focused Brief Therapy and qualifying as a Solution Focused Coach.

Today, Sukanya supports those navigating anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and loss. Her grief work extends beyond bereavement to include life transitions such as career changes, relationship endings, relocation, and shifts in identity. As a coach, she supports individuals in navigating workplace and personal challenges including work–life balance, difficult relationships, emotional regulation, and career decision-making.

Summary of the Session

We’ve heard the song, but what does it take to actually stay “together” in the long run? This workshop looks at the “fizz” beyond the feeling—exploring the listening skills and daily habits that turn a romantic sentiment into a lasting partnership

Session Pricing: FREE

The Connection Prescription: Resetting the Relationships That Shape Success

Mimi Nicklin

CEO Empathy Everywhere, Keynote Speaker, and an Internationally Bestselling Author

16:00 PM – 18:00 PM

Mimi Nicklin is an internationally recognised empathy advocate, author, and leadership coach, and an internationally bestselling author of three books. She is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading voices on empathy in the workplace. She is the founder and CEO of Empathy Everywhere, an international consultancy dedicated to rebuilding human connection in leadership, teams, and organisational culture.

A sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator, Mimi works with organisations and leaders worldwide to embed empathy into culture, communication, and decision-making, helping people reconnect with themselves, each other, and their purpose.

She’s shared stages with Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Steven Bartlett, and has appeared on the BBC live to 85 million viewers. Currently ranked the #1 Workplace Wellbeing Leader in Malaysia.

With a background in advertising and brand leadership, Mimi spent nearly two decades working across global markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Her work now focuses on translating empathy from a “soft skill” into a strategic, science-backed capability that drives performance, wellbeing, and sustainable success. Her work addresses some of the most pressing challenges of modern work, including burnout, loneliness, disconnection, and declining engagement.

Summary of the Session

In a world that is faster, more stressful and more disconnected than ever, our relationships are paying the price. This session introduces ‘The Connection Prescription’: a practical, science based framework to rebuild trust, presence and meaningful connection at home, at work and with yourself.

Participants will learn why loneliness is dangerous and how to strengthen your self empathy to overcome it and rebuild communication that creates deeper connections in every part of life.

Session Pricing: 2,500 LKR

Boundaries, Belonging, and Becoming at Work

Dr Mihirini de Zoysa

Founder Director of Corporate Druids & Leadership Coach

11:00 AM – 13:00 PM

Mihirini de Zoysa is an accomplished leadership and life coach, organisation development consultant, and facilitator with over 25 years of experience working with leaders, teams, and organisations. She is an EMCC and Ashridge Hult–accredited coach, specialising in leadership and life coaching, and is widely respected for her ability to support individuals and systems through periods of uncertainty, transition, and transformation.

Mihirini holds a Doctorate (DProf) in Organisational Change from Hult Ashridge and Middlesex University (UK), an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practices from the University of Bath, and a BSc in Economics from the University of London. Her academic grounding informs a deeply reflective and systems-oriented approach to leadership and change.

Drawing from both her professional practice and personal journeys through life’s crises, Mihirini is especially known for her capacity to hold compassionate, grounded space for clients as they seek alignment, meaning, and authenticity in how they work, live, and lead. Her work spans one-to-one coaching, team and large-group facilitation, and organisation development consulting.

She is the Founder Director of Corporate Druids (Pvt) Ltd and also serves as a Non-Executive Director at CAL Investments, CAL Partners, CAL Securities, and Ceylon Tea Brokers, bridging conscious leadership with corporate governance.

Summary of the Session

Workplaces are woven from relationships, cross-functional collaborations, friendships that blur into professional ties, promotions that shift long-held dynamics, and even moments when romance enters shared spaces. This workshop invites participants to pause and examine the human threads beneath their roles: power, trust, influence, vulnerability, and the tension between belonging and boundaries. Through reflection, dialogue, and guided exercises, we explore how to lead peers with integrity, maintain authenticity when dynamics shift, and navigate intimacy — personal or professional — with clarity and care. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of their relational patterns and practical tools to build healthier, more grounded connections at work.

Session Pricing: 3,000 LKR

Inhabiting Wholeness: From Inner Alignment to Outer Connection 

Ashley Davis

Guide, Coach, Speaker, Courageous & Conscious Leadership

13:30 PM – 14:30 PM

Ashley Davis is a rare kind of leader, one who is unafraid to be tender, raw, and deeply human. Her presence inspires confidence and trust, while creating the safety needed to explore transformative, compassionate solutions to some of the most complex challenges faced by individuals and society at large.

For more than a decade, Ashley led corporate responsibility at Cole Haan and Nike, where she coached and guided leaders, developed value-driven leadership practices, and implemented business operations designed to foster a more sustainable future. Her work focused on building shared values across the value chain and broader business ecosystem, bridging purpose and performance.

Despite her outward professional success, Ashley reached a breaking point in 2018. She discovered that relentless striving and pushing harder only deepened exhaustion, disconnection, and stagnation, both personally and in her efforts to reform the fashion industry. Through a series of inner and outer journeys, she began questioning long-held beliefs about identity, worth, and success, gradually reclaiming her intrinsic joy and sense of self.

Today, Ashley brings this lived wisdom into her work, supporting others to lead, live, and create change from a place of authenticity, compassion, and embodied presence.

Summary of the Session

 This session invites us into conscious connection by returning to our own inner fullness—beyond comparison, beyond performance. Through reflection, presence, and shared experience, we’ll explore how authenticity and integrity are not goals, but natural states we access when we feel whole. From that place, connection at work—and everywhere—becomes more honest, easeful, and regenerative.

Session Pricing: 2,000 LKR

Workplace Addictions Through the Lens of Connection and Care 

Dr. Anila Paul

CEO & Psychotherapist, Ayuda Center of Healing

13:00 PM – 15:00 PM

Dr. Anila Paul is a medical doctor, psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and an integrated & functional medicine practitioner with nearly four decades of international experience in healthcare, mental health, and healing. She graduated with a medical degree in India in 1986, where she met her Sri Lankan husband, before beginning a global professional journey spanning New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.

Dr. Paul specialises in addictions, mental health, trauma, and domestic violence, working extensively as a psychotherapist and counsellor. Her clinical experience includes opiate and gambling addiction programmes, behavioural health, medical education, and community-based work. Two years ago, Dr. Paul returned to Sri Lanka to establish the Ayuda Center of Healing in Ja-Ela and Negombo. Ayuda focuses on functional medicine, bringing together allopathic medicine, Ayurveda, naturopathy, functional nutrition, psychological wellbeing, and mind–body–spirit practices to address the root causes of chronic illness rather than symptoms alone.

Her work supports individuals navigating chronic disease, addictions, mental health challenges, and women’s and men’s health concerns, offering deeply personalised, holistic pathways to healing.

Summary of the Session

 This session invites us into conscious connection by returning to our own inner fullness—beyond comparison, beyond performance. Through reflection, presence, and shared experience, we’ll explore how authenticity and integrity are not goals, but natural states we access when we feel whole. From that place, connection at work—and everywhere—becomes more honest, easeful, and regenerative.

Session Pricing: FREE

Resetting Work Relationships: From Burnout Culture to Regenerative Teams

Jude Malindra Herath

Co-Founder of Mindful Retreats & Retreat Design Specialist 

16:30 PM – 18:00 PM

Jude is the Co-Founder of Mindful Retreats and a retreat design specialist focused on bridging thought leadership with ancestral wellbeing practices for modern life and work. With over a decade of corporate experience—including leading and scaling teams of 100+, Jude brings both strategic and lived insight into burnout, misalignment, and the search for purpose.

After transitioning into wellness tourism through teaching yoga and breathwork, Jude began supporting purpose-led leaders and organizations with practical, embodied tools that integrate emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, and culture design. Jude’s work helps leaders build healthier work relationships, lead with clarity, and create teams that perform sustainably.

Summary of the Session

 Leaders today are navigating hybrid complexity, digital distraction, and shifting generational expectations—while still being asked to deliver outcomes and keep teams engaged. This session is a guided reset of our relationship with work, moving from reactive management toward regenerative leadership, where emotional intelligence, clear boundaries, and collective purpose become practical daily habits.

Drawing insights from living systems in nature and time-tested philosophies (translated through a modern, inclusive lens), participants will learn how to find their personal voice within a collective, build psychologically safe and accountable cultures, and set boundaries that create ease—not distance. Leaders leave with a simple framework and micro-practices they can apply immediately to strengthen team dynamics and support sustainable performance.

Session Pricing: 2,500 LKR

Becoming Together: Navigating Adult Child–Parent Relationships

Dr Mihirini de Zoysa

Founder Director of Corporate Druids & Leadership Coach

14:30 PM – 16:30 PM

Mihirini de Zoysa is an accomplished leadership and life coach, organisation development consultant, and facilitator with over 25 years of experience working with leaders, teams, and organisations. She is an EMCC and Ashridge Hult–accredited coach, specialising in leadership and life coaching, and is widely respected for her ability to support individuals and systems through periods of uncertainty, transition, and transformation.

Mihirini holds a Doctorate (DProf) in Organisational Change from Hult Ashridge and Middlesex University (UK), an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practices from the University of Bath, and a BSc in Economics from the University of London. Her academic grounding informs a deeply reflective and systems-oriented approach to leadership and change.

Drawing from both her professional practice and personal journeys through life’s crises, Mihirini is especially known for her capacity to hold compassionate, grounded space for clients as they seek alignment, meaning, and authenticity in how they work, live, and lead. Her work spans one-to-one coaching, team and large-group facilitation, and organisation development consulting.

She is the Founder Director of Corporate Druids (Pvt) Ltd and also serves as a Non-Executive Director at CAL Investments, CAL Partners, CAL Securities, and Ceylon Tea Brokers, bridging conscious leadership with corporate governance.

Summary of the Session

Adult child–parent relationships are among the most layered we hold — rich with history, memory, unresolved patterns, love, duty, and unspoken expectations. As parents age and adult children step into caregiving roles, the emotional terrain shifts: old dynamics resurface, autonomy is renegotiated, and both sides face the tender reality of changing power and dependence. This workshop offers a compassionate space to explore these transitions. Through guided reflection, facilitated dialogue, and gentle inquiry, participants examine boundary-setting, role reversals, cultural expectations, and the grief that accompanies aging. They leave with more clarity, empathy, and practical tools to nurture these relationships with dignity and honesty while caring for their own wellbeing.

Session Pricing: 3,000 LKR

From Big Talks to Everyday Conversations: Resetting How We Communicate with Our Children

Shivani Jobanputra

Internationally Certified Youth Mentor

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Shivani Jobanputra is a Colombo-based sexuality educator, menstruality coach, and embodiment practitioner. She has spent over five years working with parents, young people, and adults to support healthier relationships with bodies, emotions, and communication.

As a sexuality educator, Shivani’s work focuses on helping parents and caregivers become their children’s first safe resource for conversations about bodies, consent, puberty, gender, relationships, and sexuality. She brings a warm, grounded, and non-judgmental approach that integrates education with lived experience, making complex and sensitive topics feel more accessible and human.

She is the creator of Truthtellers, a programme supporting parents and caregivers to have ongoing, honest, and age-appropriate conversations with their children, and regularly facilitates workshops in schools and community settings globally.

Summary of the Session

This interactive session explores how everyday communication shapes children’s sense of safety in relationships with caregivers, others, and themselves. It supports parents and caregivers who feel uncertain when conversations involve bodies, emotions, boundaries, puberty, or relationships. Rather than relying on one-off “big talks,” the session encourages ongoing, trust-building dialogue. Participants will reflect on how to stay present during discomfort and respond calmly instead of reactively. Emphasis is placed on repairing missteps and strengthening connection rather than using perfect language. The session is open to all adults who care for children in any capacity.

Session Pricing: FREE

Rushika Silva

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Venue F

Clinical Psychologist BA (Psychology); MSc (Clinical and Community Psychology); SLMC (Reg:36); EMDR (EMDR Asia)

Rushika is a Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years of experience in the field. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of East London, UK, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA and SLMC registration (36). As a registered psychologist, she is passionate about guiding individuals on a journey of self-discovery, helping them build emotional resilience and achieve a healthier, more fulfilling life. She supports clients with challenges such as workplace stress, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship issues. Her private practice in Colombo offers both in-person and online therapy in English and Sinhala. 

Nimethri Gunasekera

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Venue G

Ph.D (Reading), B(Psych)(MY), MSoSc (Cli&Cou) Psych (KH), MA(B.Cou) (UoK), IHD(Psych), HND(Cou), Dip(Mindfulness)

Nimethri Gunasekara is a psychologist and mindfulness trainer, and the Founding Director of Every Mind Matters. She supports individuals in understanding themselves more deeply and cultivating healthier emotional lives. Her work integrates Clinical and Counselling Psychology with Buddhist teachings, offering a grounded, reflective, and compassionate approach to mental health and wellbeing.

She provides emotional support and psychotherapy, mentors and develops future psychologists, collaborates with organisations on corporate wellbeing, and creates safe, supportive spaces where growth and healing can naturally unfold. Guided by ethical practice, authenticity, and balance, Nimethri believes that mental health care should be qualified, compassionate, practical, and deeply human- meeting people where they are, with clarity and care.

Suvendrini Thambar

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Venue F

Certified Practicing Counsellor/Therapist/ Australian Registered Counsellor (PACFA) (MCouns; MEduc; Bsc – Educ/Special Educ.)

Suvendrini is a person-centered therapist with a particular interest in life transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, alcohol dependence, behavioural addictions, trauma, grief, and end-of-life support. She use an eclectic form of treatment, primarily with a mix of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Motivational Interviewing. As she lives between Colombo and Sydney, she works online only with an international clientele of young adults & adults from various cultural backgrounds. 

Jayeshi Aishwarya Perera

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Venue G

BSc (Hons) in psychology (Cardiff Metropolitan University), MSc in Clinical & Health Psychology (University of West London), and a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance

Jayeshi is a trauma-informed mental health professional with a BSc (Hons) in psychology (Cardiff Metropolitan University) MSc in Clinical & Health Psychology (University of West London) and a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance, with almost four years of experience supporting individuals experiencing various challenges in life. The work is grounded in a strong commitment to creating a safe, non-judgmental, and deeply attuned space where individuals feel seen, heard, and respected to help them foster a deeper connection to themselves and reach their optimum potential.

Shihani De Sylva

13:00 PM – 15:00 PM – Venue F

MSc C.A.M.H, HOD Psychology/ School counsellor- Stafford International School

An experienced psychology educator and practitioner, Shihani holds a BA in Psychology, an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and a BPS-approved Certificate in CBT for Children and Adolescents. With over 15 years of experience teaching psychology and more than 5 years working as a school counsellor, she brings a strong blend of academic expertise and practical therapeutic skills, with a particular focus on child and adolescent mental health. Shihani is deeply committed to supporting young people’s emotional wellbeing and learning, and believes that building positive rapport and meaningful relationships, rooted in mutual respect, is essential for achieving long-term improvements in children’s emotional and mental wellbeing.

Nathan Daniel Anandappa

13:00 PM – 15:00 PM – Venue G

Founder & Counsellor of Aerom Counselling

Nathan Daniel Anandappa has been working in the field of mental health since 2021. He graduated from Coventry University with a Master’s in Applied Psychology and is a trauma-informed therapist, passionate about creating and holding safe spaces for all people, particularly youth and young adults. 

Suhaila Shafeek-Irshard

15:00 PM – 17:00 PM – Venue F

M.Sc. Clinical Psychology

Suhaila is a Clinical Psychologist and she works mostly with teenagers and adults in one-to-one sessions to provide assessments and counselling.

Suhaila works with her clients to help them maneuver through challenging times, whether it’s learning how to diffuse or manage stressful or difficult situations, proactively solve problems, understand complex emotions, meet and achieve challenging goals and objectives, or resolve interpersonal conflict.

Sukanya Wignaraja

15:00 PM – 17:00 PM – Venue G

M.Sc in Applied Social Studies, Diploma in Social Work

Sukanya Wignaraja is a counsellor and solution-focused therapist with 20 years’ international experience supporting mental health, life transitions, and personal growth. She began her professional journey as a clinical social worker in the UK. As her life and work took her from the UK to the Philippines, Japan, and eventually Sri Lanka, Sukanya continued her clinical practice while deepening her training in Solution Focused Brief Therapy and qualifying as a Solution Focused Coach. Today, Sukanya supports those navigating anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and loss. Her grief work extends beyond bereavement to include life transitions such as career changes, relationship endings, relocation, and shifts in identity. As a coach, she supports individuals in navigating workplace and personal challenges including work–life balance, difficult relationships, emotional regulation, and career decision-making.

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