Ceremony as Business Strategy

A Healing-Centered Business Workshop 

Program: 2 hour interactive live workshop

Date: February 13th, 2026 | 3pm EST-5PM EST

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Last December, we gathered for Business as Ceremony and practiced slowing down, honoring lineage, reflecting on the year that had passed, and closing a cycle with intention. The response was clear—this way of working matters.
Now we invite you into the next layer.
Ceremony as Business Strategy is a 2-hour workshop that moves from practice into application. Here, we invite the community to explore how it is a way to refine  business models, shape offerings, and guide decisions.

What We Mean by “Ceremony as Strategy”

In dominant business culture, strategy is often framed as a vehicle for optimization, extraction, or speed. In this workshop, we explore a ceremony for: 
  • Surfacing key information
  • Revealing new priorities 
  • Reorganizing the people, energy, and resources in our business/projects
When approached with intention, ceremony becomes a living intelligence—one that can guide how we structure our work, relate to others, and mobilize toward shared purpose.

Get Access to "Business as Ceremony" Recording

If you'd like access to our past "Business as Ceremony" workshop from December 2025, leave us your information below and we'll send you the recording.

What We'll Explore

This workshop is organized explores how ceremony can support with the following: 
  • how offerings are designed
  • how value is created and exchanged
  • how pacing, capacity, and sustainability are built into your business model
  • shapes discernment and timing
  • supports ethical, values-aligned choices
  • helps leaders move from reaction to intentional action
  • bringing people into alignment
  • marking transitions and commitments
  • mobilizing energy toward shared work
Whether you lead a business, a team, or a community, ceremony can help people feel seen, oriented, and connected to purpose.

How This Builds on Business as Ceremony

If Business as Ceremony was about practice and presence,
Ceremony as Business Strategy is about integration and design.
You do not need to have attended the December session to join, but this workshop is intentionally shaped for those ready to move from reflection into application—from meaning into structure.
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Who is this for?

This workshop is for:
  • Entrepreneurs and consultants building values-aligned businesses
  • Educators and leaders in transition
  • Organizers and community builders
  • Anyone exploring non-extractive, relational approaches to strategy

What You’ll Leave With

Participants will leave with:
  • a clearer understanding of how ceremony can inform strategy
  • new language for integrating values into structure
  • practical reflection prompts to apply in their own work
  • a deeper sense of alignment between purpose and practice
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Key Information

Location: Live on Zoom
Date & Time: February 13th, 3:00–5:00 PM ET
Recording: Available to all registered participants

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Regular Admission

Subsidized Admission

✔ Two-hour interactive live workshop via Zoom

✔ Access to recorded session post-event

About the Facilitators

Clarinda Tivoli

Founder of The Matriarchal Business, Clarinda brings indigenous, lineage-rooted frameworks to entrepreneurship and organizational life. Her work helps leaders reimagine business as a relational, ethical, and sustainable practice.

Dr. Angel Acosta

Founder of the Acosta Institute and creator of the Healing-Centered Business framework, Angel works at the intersection of leadership, education, wellness, and social innovation—supporting leaders in building businesses that are both strategic and humane.

Dr. Angel Acosta

Dr. Acosta is the founder of the Acosta Institute and creator of the Healing-Centered Business framework. His work lives at the intersection of leadership, wellness, education, and social innovation. He brings a wealth of experience from coaching leaders, designing equity-centered programs, and pioneering new paradigms for learning and business.

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