What if business could be sacred?

Join Clarinda Tivoli – Indigenous business strategist, decolonizing business educator and founder of Ever Uvi Community for a live, in-person ceremonial class session exploring sustainable and profitable frameworks for ceremony in business. 

Who is this for?

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, creative, leader, or someone reimagining your relationship to work, this experience will help you shift your approach to business from extractive to intentionally restorative, and generative for your business and community.

You’ll leave with practical insights, expanded clarity, and a demonstrated model of what it means to make business sacred.

What we’ll explore:

These immersive 2–3 hour (see specific city info for exact durations and details) sessions blend her thought-provoking live class with the intimacy of a traditional yaqona/kava ceremony, prompt-led talk story discussions and Q+A.

Clarinda will speak to:

• Indigenous Ingenuity: High leverage strategies for rapid revenue growth
• Money, culture and the moral conflict of sales (an historical deep dive)
• “Can an anti-capitalist business exist within capitalism?”
• Teu le Vā: Relational space tending over transaction
• Movement Making: Sales without coercion, activism without martyrdom
• Sliding scales for economic justice (and profit)
• The sacred roles and responsibilities in communications (Story Keeping)
• Business and Ceremony: The decolonization of ALL relationship

What to expect:

• Opening Yaqona/Kava Ceremony
  Observe and participate in opening welcome with traditional Pasifika ceremony
• “The Ceremony of Business” Class Session with Clarinda
  Learn an indigenous Pasifika perspective on how tending to the Vā (relational space), effective strategy, and the role of story keeping can help us build businesses aligned with ethical, community-centered and sacred values.
• Open Yaqona/Kava Talk Story Session
  Guided prompts and open Q+A: Share, ask, reflect, and connect over our sacred root that’s been used for generations to foster dialogue and peace.

***Across cities, format may vary slightly. See specific location pages for details.***

Important Note: These class sessions are naturally Indigenous-centered, specifically Oceania/Pasifika oriented as this informs Clarinda’s cultural view. Sessions are open to all – but be mindful that they are taught from a decolonial lens. This may be uncomfortable or unappealing to some.

Dates / Locations

July 18-20 ||| Lenape / NYC

July 21 ||| Muscogee / Atlanta

July 23 ||| Gabrielino Tongva / Los Ángeles

[Details TBA]

July 27 ||| Squaxin / Seattle

[Details TBA]

About Clarinda

Founder, Ever Uvi Community
Indigenous Marketing and Sales Strategist
Cultural Story Keeper

Clarinda Tivoli is a Pacific Island entrepreneur, business educator, and the founder of Ever Uvi Community – an indigenous marketing and sales support resource for the conscious business community. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand to Samoan and Fijian parents, Clarinda draws upon a cultural and entrepreneurial lineage that challenges capitalist business norms, and nurtures long-term, community-centered growth. Her clients range from Nobel Peace Prize nominees to Olympic athletes and influencial grassroots organizers.

As a mother, sailor and Pasifika dancer, Clarinda’s work is influenced by her experience birthing and raising children in Hawaiʻi where she lives, deepening into Pasifika kinships and its successful frameworks that persist, despite cultural erasure.

Detoxing from prior corporate burnout, Clarinda is also highly sensitive to the balancing of revenue growth with sustainable impact, progressing at the speed of people.

Clarinda teaches classes that offer an indigenous framework of story keeping in marketing (not just storytelling), consensual business practice (emphasis on the sensual), and an approach to business as ceremony.

Through her teaching, public speaking, and mentorship, she invites others to reclaim business as a space for cultural perpetuation and continuity, intergenerational wealth, and transformative justice.