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

Led by the bluelight academy all Black leadership team, this webinar is a reflection on the lessons learned throughout 2025 where our theme for programming was "the year of the cooperative".

Course•By Spring Up Team

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

This pre-recorded webinar hare our model for balancing accessibility and sustainability as a worker cooperative.

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Anti-Carceral Crisis Response Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar covers the basics of how to design and implement anti-carceral responses to crisis in our organizations and communities.

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Binaries in Gender-Based Violence Response Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar focuses on dissolving the implicit binaries in survivor support.

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Collective Governance: Sharing Power Through Sociocracy Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar shares 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.

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Consensus + Conflict: Harnessing the Wisdom of Disagreement Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar explores common challenges when practicing shared decision making, the similarities & differences between consensus + consent based decision making, and how we can collaboratively make decisions together in a timely and efficient manner.

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Coops: Nonbinary Strategies in Capitalism Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar features Spring Up member-owners reflect on the processes and practices that facilitate cooperative ownership of our collective.

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Discerning between Discomfort + Harm: Somatic Tools for Centered Accountability

Mar. 13th, 2026- Learning, evolving, healing, and being accountable require discomfort. We need to be able to discern between discomfort and harm because discomfort is necessary for learning and shifting the status quo.

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Doing the Hard Thing: Feedback Conversations in Management + Horizontal Structures

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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

Free Webinar: Approaching Conflict Generatively

Jan. 23rd, 2026- Our theme at bluelight academy for 2026 is “generative conflict” - as a worker cooperative team of transformative justice practitioners, mediators, and organizational consultants we have first hand experience moving from fear or destructive conflict tendencies into creative, grounded, accessible, and safe practice to address conflict.

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Free Webinar: Ethics of Chisme

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Free Webinar: Reflection on the Year of Generative Conflict

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Holding Grief and Rage in Facilitation

This pre-recorded webinar explores how we can hold and make space for grief and rage in our facilitation.

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Liberatory Love + Art-Making Webinar

This pre-recorded 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!

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Making the Implicit, Explicit: Cultivating Cultures of Care at Work

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

This pre-recorded webinar explores how organizations can adapt to shifts in trend funding and evolving political landscapes.

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

This pre-recorded webinar shares core lessons from liberation psychology about the internalization of oppression and what tools, practices, and facilitation strategies can support us in working together across difference.

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Organizational Accountability Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar explores 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

Patterns of Conflict Avoidance: from denying + minimizing harm to cancel culture + overstating harm

Apr. 3rd, 2026- People often quote that conflict avoidance is a tenet of white supremacy culture, but what does that look like in practice? And how do we interrupt these patterns without overcorrecting? In this webinar we will go through a map of 4 different flavors of conflict avoidance, from ignoring and enabling harm to jumping to conclusions and scapegoating rather than holding the complexity of a situation.

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Practicing Accountability at Work: Feedback + Evaluation Tools

This pre-recorded 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.

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Psychodynamics of Cancellation

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Safety + Care Webinar

This pre-recorded webinar 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.

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Unpacking Anti-Blackness + Interrupting Deference as Under-Accountability

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We Got Us: Community Agreements and Planning for Safety + Care in Conflict Response

Feb. 20th, 2026- Many of our communities and workplaces have normalized having community agreements at the beginning of a training, program, or in their collaboration in general - but how do we make sure those can actually effectively be used once conflict and harm have occurred?

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What is actually at stake? Abolitionist Conflict Risk Assessment + Alternatives to Mandatory Reporting

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What is Gender? Webinar

This pre-recorded 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.

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

This pre-recorded webinar explores how the invisibilization of feminized forms of labor (like emotional labor) contributes to burn out.

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“We Hate Our Leader:” Countertransference and Scapegoating of Leadership

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