Spring Up

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Spring Up is a collective of care workers, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and coaches practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight.academy

12/06/2023

today! we are doing an everyday TJ webinar with 🌠 want us to do a webinar on care, conflict, organizational accountability, consent, or TJ with your group in 2024? Reserve now at timetospringup.org 🪼

NCCASA has contracted with Spring Up to facilitate this training. Facilitators are Gayatri Lakshmi (they/them), collective member and consultant, Spring Up Mara Martinez-Hewitt (they/them), collective member and consultant, Spring Up https://www.timetospringup.org/. This webinar will be in English on Zoom. Please let us know if you need English to Spanish interpretation.

NCCASA ha contratado a Spring Up para facilitar esta capacitación. Los facilitadores son Gayatri Lakshmi (elle), miembro colectivo y consultora, Spring Up Mara Martinez-Hewitt (elle), miembro colectivo y consultora, Spring Up https://www.timetospringup.org/. Este seminario web se impartirá en inglés en Zoom. Por favor, háganos saber si necesita interpretación del inglés al español. La página de inscripción es en inglés. Haga clic en la palabra “Translate” (Traducir) en la esquina superior derecha y selecciona la opción "Spanish" (Español) de la lista desplegable para ver la versión en español.

10/25/2023

Will you be at the launch of our favorite book of the year next week?? 🌈 We are so excited that Andrea Richie’s new book “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies” is out now!! Come hear from Andrea, Stas, Mimi Kim, Kalayo Pestaño, and Matisse Mooore at one of the book’s launch events, emergent strategies and anti-violence movements from 2-4 EST on Oct 31st! Register for the virtual event via the link in our bio.

07/10/2023

Last month, Spring Up consultants Thanh, Brianna, and Gayatri came together in Chicago to support the HANA Center () in a Consent skills-building role play after several months of virtual group learning rooted in our Consent mini-class.✨

Participant feedback: “Loved working with y'all, I hope our organization continues this conversation and continues to cultivate a culture of consent, warmth, and support for all” 🫶🏾

06/26/2023

2 public training opportunities this week! The first is a 3 hour Transformative Justice workshop *tomorrow* 6/27 from 10 - 1 MST with the Colorado coalition for restorative practices for just $15. You can attend in person if you are in the Denver area, or online. The second is on Wednesday 6/28 from 12-1:30 PST with about restorative justice practices. This is also online and open to anyone to attend. Links to register in linktree in bio!

06/21/2023

We are tabling at Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver! Come see us at booth 405 if you are here 🍄

06/16/2023

“I could not love this more. Thank you for everything. Such a wonderful group and so much wisdom. I feel less alone.” - participant feedback

Last Friday, 4 of our collective members shared virtual space with 15 Liberatory Facilitation retreat participants, including folks from Neuroclastic and Haley House Farms. It was a lovely day of deepened understanding of access and inclusion and making connections across movements and organizations.

“I absolutely appreciated the SU team's thoughtfulness both in what we experience in the lead up to, during, and after the retreat. How wonderful it is to offer us coaching as part of this!” -participant feedback

You’re welcome to sign up for the fall LF retreat on 9/29, and can still register for this summer’s Conflict Analysis retreat on 6/23 or the Harm Systems Design Retreat on 7/7. Register for all three in our Liberatory Leadership bundle to save 50% off one retreat. All of our retreats now include 1 coaching session!

“Thank you for all of your work in putting this all together and facilitating the retreat! I feel understood, cared for, and have so many ideas of ways to integrate new practices into my facilitation moving forward.” -participant feedback

06/12/2023

*tomorrow!* still time to register at ic.org/events sliding scale $10-$40

🌞Do you want to have better conversations about trust and accountability with your community? Conflict, harm, and equity can feel like the faultlines that put community and relationships at risk.

🌞What if addressing those tensions through the framework of organizational accountability could make your community stronger and more resilient? Join Stas and Leander from Spring Up on June 13 for a webinar on Designing Equitable and Accountable Communities! This webinar builds on their previous webinar about Transformative Justice in community, but you're welcome to join even if you weren't able to attend that.

🌞We'll talk about how to assess your community's strengths and growth areas and set goals around those collectively.

🌞Spring Up’s frameworks of accountability and the Organizational Accountability Wheel are informed by grassroots transformative justice and community accountability practice, and draw on the wisdom of the Indigenous Medicine Wheel, as expressed by the People of Standing Rock / Lakota and Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory.

🌞DM us if your organization wants to partner on a webinar!

05/05/2023

Join and .intentional.community for this webinar on May 15 from 2 - 3:30 PM EST starting a conversation about how we practice Transformative Justice in intentional community! This is great for anyone in co-housing or community based living - or maybe you know more about conflict transformation and are curious to learn more about intentional community 🏡 Register sliding scale $10-$40 at ic.org/event

Transformative Justice (TJ) is both a philosophy of care and collective liberation, as well as a collection of practices exploring how we respond to violence and harm within ourselves and our communities. But what does that all mean, really? And how can we begin to implement and embody the ideas and practices of Transformative Justice in our everyday lives? Words and phrases like “community care,” “generative conflict,” and “accountability” all sound great, but what do they really look like in our lives and communities?

These are the questions we will tackle with you in our interactive Transformative Justice and Harm in Community workshop. During these 90 minutes we will dive into concepts like accountability and how we can practice on a small scale daily, how to plan for safety and care, and informed consent. We will draw on case studies and real world experiences supporting communities through conflict, restorative processes, and designing systems to enable transparency and accountability. There will also be space to share situations you are struggling to resolve and get feedback from the presenters and other participants.

04/14/2023

Registration for bluelight’s summer term online 6-week courses + 1-day virtual retreats is now open! 🎉 Learn more + register today at bluelight.academy (link in bio)

What will you do to invest in your personal development and support system this summer? Will a bluelight academy course or retreat be part of making space for you to commit to your own unlearning and healing?

Get 25% off any retreat when you register for any 6 week course!

Get 10% off if you register by May 3rd with the code EARLYBIRD

Email bluelight.academy@timetospringup.org with scholarship requests.

[Image description: psychedelic saturated graphic with 6 circles featuring bluelight summer courses on transformative justice, consent gender power, and liberatory education in June and July, as well as daylong retreats on liberatory facilitation, conflict analysis, and harm systems design.]

03/07/2023

Last month, our collective member .shaina was involved in co-hosting a Liberatory Art-making workshop alongside in collaboration with the . The event was put together by and took place in the space at in Raleigh, NC. As a digital collective with our collective members all over the US, we love getting the opportunity to show up in each of our local communities to support and uplift values aligned work and in this case, we got to share Spring Up’s work around the Resilience & Revitalization project to spark inspiration for for liberatory art making. 🌈🍄✨

“Vanguard Social: Visions of Southern Q***r Resistance,” highlights the works of Southern QTBIPOC (Q***r, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Color) artists as a means of empowering and uplifting their lived experience. This exhibition places emphasis on the pivotal role of QTBIPOC creatives in the push for liberation, while also highlighting the need for solidarity throughout communities that are marginalized by way of systemic oppression.” The is currently up at VAE in Raleigh, NC until March 23rd so if you are local to the area or passing through, we encourage you to check it out!

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01/11/2023

✨Registration for bluelight’s Spring 2023 Transformative Justice course is now open!✨

How can we address violence within ourselves and our communities without depending on police, prisons, and outside intervention? bluelight academy's flagship Transformative Justice course is an overview of core Transformative Justice practices, references, and skills. This multimedia course provides videos, readings with audio recordings, coaching, and grounding practices to support you in integrating everyday Transformative Justice into your life.

If you have questions on scholarships or accessibility, please visit bluelight.academy for more information. This course runs from February 10 to March 31 and includes several optional live virtual spaces to connect with other students and discuss the material, as well as a 1:1 coaching session, a print workbook, and 6 modules of original video, audio, and text resources with comments to ask questions and reflect.

Registration closes on January 25th, –– Learn more + register for the course at bluelight.academy or using the link in our bio!

01/04/2023

✨Registration for bluelight’s Spring 2023 Consent, Gender, Power course is now open!✨

bluelight academy's Consent, Gender, Power class is an opportunity for community educators, advocates, care providers, and people impacted by gender based violence to explore the roots of violence and frameworks of prevention and response. Through this multi-media course we dive into the history, power dynamics, and systems that perpetuate and uphold gender based violence as well as strategies and tools to practice consent, healing, and harm reduction.

If you have questions on scholarships or accessibility, please visit bluelight.academy for more information. This course runs from February 10 to March 31 and includes several optional live virtual spaces to connect with other students and discuss the material, as well as a 1:1 coaching session, a print workbook, and 6 modules of original video, audio, and text resources with comments to ask questions and reflect.

Registration closes on January 25th, –– Learn more + register for the course at bluelight.academy or using the link in our bio!

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