ETHOS

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ETHOS

Why

What

How

When

Ethos is a ten-month fellowship for teenagers in Kuala Lumpur.

Question what you're told.
Do hard things you believe in.

Question what you're told.
Do hard things you believe in.

Question what you're told.
Do hard things you believe in.

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  • What does success actually mean to you?

  • What do you actually stand for?

  • Who are you when no one is watching?

  • Who do you want to become?

  • Are you using AI — or is AI using you?

  • What would you create if you knew it would matter?

It has never been harder to think for yourself — and to do hard work you believe in.

It has never been harder to think for yourself — and to do hard work you believe in.

Phones eliminate boredom — the time you need to wrestle with big questions.
Algorithms shorten attention — the focus you need to follow through.
And AI now does the work — taking away the practice you need to do anything hard.

Phones eliminate boredom — the time you need to wrestle with big questions.
Algorithms shorten attention — the focus you need to follow through.
And AI now does the work — taking away the practice you need to do anything hard.

Phones eliminate boredom — the time you need to wrestle with big questions.


Algorithms shorten attention — the focus you need to follow through.


And AI now does the work — taking away the practice you need to do anything hard.

Ethos is built for that work.

Ethos is built for that work.

Fellows leave with:

Fellows leave with:

Ethos Fellows
leave with:

A personal compass

A thoughtful definition of success. Clarity about what you believe and stand for - pressure tested through conversations and debate. A compass to guide you through life's big decisions.

A personal compass

A thoughtful definition of success. Clarity about what you believe and stand for - pressure tested through conversations and debate. A compass to guide you through life's big decisions.

A contribution

Something to show the world. A real project you conceive, build and deliver. You might curate an event, build an app or write a book - a contribution that creates value for people other than yourself.

A contribution

Something to show the world. A real project you conceive, build and deliver. You might curate an event, build an app or write a book - a contribution that creates value for people other than yourself.

A cohort

Fourteen peers who have wrestled with the same questions, who know each other deeply, and who will keep showing up long after the program ends. Most teenagers don't get to be known like this until much later in life. Some never do.

A personal compass

A thoughtful definition of success. Clarity about what you believe and stand for - pressure tested through conversations and debate. A compass to guide you through life's big decisions.

A contribution

Something to show the world. A real project you conceive, build and deliver. You might curate an event, build an app or write a book - a contribution that creates value for people other than yourself.

A cohort

Fourteen peers who have wrestled with the same questions, who know each other deeply, and who will keep showing up long after the program ends. Most teenagers don't get to be known like this until much later in life. Some never do.

The Fellowship Experience

The Fellowship Experience

10

Months

10

Months

15

FELLOWS

15

FELLOWS

15-17

Age range

15-17

Age range

KL

Kuala Lumpur

KL

Kuala Lumpur

What Fellows Actually Do

01

Three in-person intensives across the year

Phone-free. Distraction-free. Held at carefully chosen venues across Kuala Lumpur.

02

Weekly virtual sessions between intensives

Facilitated cohort discussions and expert guest speakers on rotation.

03

Small pods of 3–4 fellows, meeting monthly

Intentionally composed for developmental diversity. Peer-to-peer work between group sessions.

04

1-on-1s with the guide every 3–4 weeks

Focused personal developmental work outside the group rhythm.

05

The Contribution

A real project you conceive, build with AI, and deliver for others.

06

A Closing Showcase

Fellows present their project and their journey to parents, peers, and the people they built for.

Fellowship HIGHLIGHTS

What teenagers need but rarely get.

What teenagers need but rarely get.

Good Society
Readings

Good Society Readings

Structured discussions around the biggest questions in life. What does success actually mean to you? What is your role in society? What values do you live by? You'll debate, disagree, and discover what you actually think. Most teenagers have never been invited into a conversation like this.

Analog
Sessions

Analog Sessions

Three in-person intensives across the year - technology free, distraction-free, fully present. A deliberate contrast to the digital world outside. For most fellows, these will be the most focused days of your year.

The
Contribution

The Contribution

Conceiving something real, building it with AI, hitting the wall, pushing through, and releasing it into the world.

The Fellowship Arc

Ten months.

Three phases.

One thread.

Ten months.

Three phases.

One thread.

Phase 01

Reflect

You turn inward. Values clarification, identity exploration, the clarity to know what you actually believe - not what you have been told to believe. Uncomfortable, irreplaceable work.

Phase 02

Design

You turn outward. With a clearer sense of who you are, you'll develop the capacity to genuinely understand others. This is where the creative question emerges: what does the world need from someone like me?

Phase 03

Execute

You act. Real projects. Real stakes. Real feedback. This phase tests the resilience the earlier phases have been quietly building toward. You'll discover you have more capacity for difficulty than you thought.

Resilience

Not a phase. Not a module. A thread that runs through all three - inner resilience, relational resilience, practical resilience - built quietly, tested throughout.

The Guide

Navin Muruga

Navin Muruga

Founder, Ethos

Navin built fellowship programs as Head of Southeast Asia at Acumen Academy - designing and facilitating developmental experiences for the region's most promising changemakers. Ethos is the first time that methodology has been adapted for teenagers.

His practice draws on Harvard's Adaptive Leadership, Integral Coaching, and Kegan & Lahey's Immunity to Change - frameworks he has worked with across more than thirty cohorts of emerging leaders.

He is also a father of two boys - it's the reason he founded Ethos.

Navin built fellowship programs as Head of Southeast Asia at Acumen Academy - designing and facilitating developmental experiences for the region's most promising changemakers. He brings that methodology to teenagers for the first time.

His practice draws on Harvard's Adaptive Leadership, Integral Coaching, and Kegan & Lahey's Immunity to Change - frameworks he has worked with across more than thirty cohorts of emerging leaders.

He is also a father of two boys - it's the reason he founded Ethos.

Acumen Academy SEA

Transcend Fellow

TEDx Speaker

Kuala Lumpur - Founding Cohort 2027

The founding cohort

The founding cohort

begins in 2027

We’re growing a community before we recruit our founding cohort. If this resonates, stay close - we’ll share our thinking as it develops.

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