2025 Gender + Labor Equity Retreat

Virtual daylong retreat on 2/28/25

Course•By Spring Up Team

2025 Year in Review: Lessons Learned from the Year of the Coop

Join the bluelight academy leadership team (Brianna, Shaina, and Stas) on December 5th for a free webinar reflection on the lessons learned throughout this year’s programming.

Course•By Spring Up Team

2026 Conflict Analysis Retreat: 5 Steps to Move from Reaction to Response

Join us live for our virtual daylong retreat on 2/13/26 or 10/2/26!

Course•By Spring Up Team

2026 Harm Systems Design: Non-Punitive Approaches from Organizing to HR Retreat

How do we build the systems we need to non-punitively respond to harm? This fully virtual daylong retreat takes place on Friday February 27th from 8:30am-2:30pm PDT / 9:30am-3:30pm MDT / 11:30am-5:30pm EDT. It will be offered again on 7/3/26.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Balancing Sustainability + Access: Spring Up Revenue Model for Values Based Pricing, Scholarships, and Consistent Free Resources

Live webinar on Friday 9/19 from 5-6:30pm ET/4-5:30pm CT/3-4:30pm MT/2-3:30pm PT! A captioned recording will be available after the live session for all registrants.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Anti-Carceral Crisis Response Webinar

How can organizations and community groups respond to crisis in ways that don’t replicate harm or traumatize others? Recorded in 2024, this webinar covers the basics of how to design and implement anti-carceral responses to crisis in our organizations and communities.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Binaries in Gender-Based Violence Response Webinar

This webinar focuses on dissolving the implicit binaries in survivor support. We encounter many of these without knowing in our work with survivors, and many of them are applicable to restorative and transformative justice. There are many binaries we will approach and explore across this session, and the larger summit - they include breaking down the binary between professional and community member - breaking down the binary between survivor and victim - breaking down binaries between survivor and offender - and breaking down the binaries between being a survivor advocate and a restorative practitioner. In dissolving these binaries we will recover the space that exists for collaboration and mutual understanding to help us work creatively towards liberation together.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Burnout Webinar

This webinar focuses on defining, identifying, preventing, and responding to burnout in workplace and organizing contexts. It offers concrete tools and resources focused on assessing for burnout, identifying patterns and tendencies related to diminished capacity, and establishing sustainable boundaries.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Care Labor Webinar

A 90-minute webinar unpacking invisibilized and gendered labor including care, emotional, and reproductive labor.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Collective Governance: Sharing Power Through Sociocracy Webinar

In this free webinar we share what we've learned about collective and collaborative governance, including highlighting core tools, systems, and practices that we implement as a group and share with our clients through out consulting and training services. We also share about "Sociocracy," or "Dynamic Governance," a framework for collective decision making and internal structures for workload distribution grounded in circles, consent and feedback.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Communication and Decision-Making Bundle

Tools to Adapt to the Current Political Moment

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Community Accountability Webinar

Join Stas + Leander as they walk through the steps and roles involved in facilitating Community Accountability processes in response to harm, including resources to use along the way.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Consensus + Conflict: Harnessing the Wisdom of Disagreement Webinar

Live webinar on Friday 5/30 from 5-6:30pm ET/4-5:30pm CT/3-4:30pm MT/2-3:30pm PT! A captioned recording will be available after the live session for all registrants.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Coops: Nonbinary Strategies in Capitalism Webinar

How do cooperatively-owned businesses work? What is their role in moving us toward more liberatory futures? In this free webinar, Spring Up member-owners will reflect on the processes and practices that facilitate cooperative ownership of our collective.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Cultivate Consent Mini-Class

Self-guided intro to Cultivating Consent

Course•By Spring Up Team

De-Escalation and Harm Response Skills Package

How to Address Conflict + Harm Non-Punitively

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Ecosystems of Care: Nature Based Models for Reciprocity, Support, and Alchemizing Trauma

Healing work is non-linear with ebbs and flows — you may have a breakthrough and with that may come another crack in the surface the dig deeper. How might we equip ourselves for this constant gut wrenching yet nourishing work? By creating an own ecosystem of healing. There is complexity within ecosystems, layers of nurturance, consumption, homeostasis, and diversity. We use the term ecosystem because all of these components will uphold your healing process — they inform and supplement one another.

Course•By Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Everyday Consent Webinar

Consent is a key component in moving towards collective liberation as it allows us to identify our boundaries, meet our needs, and honor our care practices.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Everyday Transformative Justice Webinar

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. How can we begin to implement and embody the ideas and practices of Transformative Justice in our everyday lives?

Course•By Spring Up Team

Fall 2025 Retreats Bundle

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Gender Liberation Package

Non-Binary Strategies to End Gender Based Violence

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Harm Response Skills Webinar

How can we build and practice harm response skills in our collaborations and communities?

Course•By Spring Up Team

Holding Grief and Rage in Facilitation

Pre-recorded 90 minute webinar.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Liberatory Education and Facilitation Trio

Resources for Teachers + Facilitators

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Liberatory Love + Art-Making Webinar

How do love and art-making fuel our liberatory practices? This webinar explores approaches and practices that mobilize art as a tool for liberation paired with a visualization & art-making activity. Get access to the pre-recorded webinar today!

Course•By Spring Up Team

Meeting the Moment: Adaptive Organizational Strategy for 2025 and Beyond Webinar

Live webinar on Friday 6/27 from 5-6:30pm ET/4-5:30pm CT/3-4:30pm MT/2-3:30pm PT! A captioned recording will be available after the live session for all registants.

Course•By Spring Up Team

My Liberation is Tied to Yours: Race + Liberation Psychology Webinar

Live webinar on Friday 7/25 from 5-6:30pm ET/4-5:30pm CT/3-4:30pm MT/2-3:30pm PT! A captioned recording will be available after the live session for all registrants.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Organizational Accountability Webinar

Organizational accountability is about translating values into practice, practicing generative conflict, preventing and responding to harm without centering liability or the state, and responding to patterns of harm and conflict through emergent and adaptive organizational strategy.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Organizational Murmuration: Capacity Mapping Tools for Co-Adapting with Colleagues

Live webinar on Friday 12/12 from 5-6:30pm ET/4-5:30pm CT/3-4:30pm MT/2-3:30pm PT! A captioned recording will be available after the live session for all registrants.

Course•By Kate 'Sassy' Sassoon

Practicing Accountability at Work: Feedback + Evaluation Tools

Pre-recorded webinar. This webinar shares tools for real and values driven workplace accountability at all scales, from daily feedback norms to formal annual evaluations. We bridge practices from sociocracy, or dynamic governance, with the philosophies of design thinking, disability justice, and transformative justice to adapt pre-existing systems and implement new norms that make accountability more explicit and achievable for teams of various sizes and structures.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Resilience & Revitalization

Seeds of Transformation

Course•By Spring Up Team

Safety & Care Webinar

This content is focused around collectivizing care work and examining consent practices with yourself when engaging in care work and is aimed towards advocates, organizers, crisis responders, therapists, teachers, and lawyers.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Strategies for Strategic Conflict Webinar

This webinar covers information and skills related to moving generatively through strategic conflict in collaborative organizing, co-working, and co-living dynamics.

Course•By Spring Up Team

Summer 2025 Liberatory Leadership Bundle

Access all of our summer 2025 webinars and retreats at an early-bird discount!

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The Spring Up Approach

Free webinar series

Course•By Spring Up Team

Transformative Justice Mini-Class

Self-guided intro to Transformative Justice

Course•By Spring Up Team

What is Gender? Webinar

This webinar explores the construction of gender alongside race, core terminology within gender and queerness, and what it means to embrace that gender is actually nonbinary. Together we practice using they/them pronouns, reflect on our own socialization into gender, and explore what it would mean to be inspired by gender fluidity and play. Finally we practice nonbinary thinking outside of gender including tools to navigate contradictions in our life and work.

Course•By Spring Up Team

“That’s Not My Job:” Equitable Workload Distribution and Feminized Labor Webinar

Live webinar on Friday 8/15 from 5-6:30pm ET/4-5:30pm CT/3-4:30pm MT/2-3:30pm PT! A captioned recording will be available after the live session for all registrants.

Course•By Spring Up Team