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. Live webinar on Friday, 1/17/25, 5:00-6:30pm EST/4:00-5:30pm CST/3:00-4:30pm MST/2:00-3:30pm PST. A captioned recording will be made available on this platform after the live webinar session.

How do love and artmaking fuel our liberatory practices? How can artmaking be a pathway toward forging relationships based on consent, equity, accountability, and transformation? This webinar explores approaches and practices that mobilize art as a tool for liberation. Live webinar on Friday, 2/14/25, 5:00-6:30pm EST/4:00-5:30pm CST/3:00-4:30pm MST/2:00-3:30pm PST. A captioned recording will be made available on this platform after the live webinar session.

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. Live webinar on 2/21/25 from 5:00-6:30pm EST/4:00-5:30pm CST/3:00-4:30pm MST/2:00-3:30pm PST. A captioned recording will be made available on this platform after the live 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. Live webinar on 3/14/25 from 5:00-6:30pm EST/4:00-5:30pm CST/3:00-4:30pm MST/2:00-3:30pm PST. A captioned recording will be available after the live 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.

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.

How can organizations and community groups respond to crisis in ways that don’t replicate harm or traumatize others?