This fully virtual daylong retreat takes place on Friday, July 25th from 8:30am-2:30pm PDT / 9:30am-3:30pm MDT / 11:30am-5:30pm EDT with a 1 hour break from 11:30am-12:30pm PDT/ 12:30pm-1:30pm MDT/ 2:30pm-3:30pm EDT.
This retreat explores the 3 core binaries of race and white supremacy through the lens of settler colonialism and genocidal logics, xenophobia and war logics, and anti-Blackness and carceral logics. Together we explore the ways that these different frameworks reinforce separation and harm between people and communities of color, undermining collective struggles for liberation.
Registration for this retreat INCLUDES free access to My Liberation is Tied to Yours: Race + Liberation Psychology, a 90 minute webinar taking place on Friday July 18th from 2-3:30 PT / 3-4:30 MT / 4-5:30 CT / 5-6:30 ET (the recording of this webinar will be included in the platform and accessible regardless of if you can attend live or not)
This course is taught by Spring Up
Spring Up is a collective of 11 Transformative Justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and care coaches; after over a decade of practicing Transformative Justice in our lives we decided to create a platform and connection space for people exploring and living into collective liberation. This course has been developed in community and collaboration with organizers, students, educators, care workers, and advocates, including the 700 alumni who provided feedback and dozens who have contributed reflections which are incorporated into the platform content.
Breakout Groups
We intentionally pair breakout groups based on the kind of work participants do or challenges they are dealing with. You will be with a group of 4-7 other participants and one Spring Up facilitator, with space to get to know one another, set your intentions, and share how you are entering the space / what your access needs are for the day.
If 4 or more people from the same organization register together, you will have a private breakout group with an aligned facilitator. The breakout space can be used to strengthen relationships among colleagues as well as problem solve and strategize around your programs and how you will directly implement what you learn.
Access
Before the retreat, we encourage you to let us know if you have specific accessibility needs that you would like us to meet. You can request live ASL interpretation, Spanish interpretation, visual descriptions, or other needs. Please try to give us at least 2 weeks notice for ASL or Spanish access.
Registration for this course includes a 1:1 coaching session with one of our coaches. Spring Up coaching is a peer-based, flexible, non-therapy offering to help you clarify your goals and build your self-care and communication skills.
Our collaborative approach to coaching is based in a non-hierarchical relationship that is solution focused — coaches recognize that clients are experts in their own lived experience. Coaching is strengths-based and culturally specific in that coaches help the client enhance their inherent strengths, skills, and resources accessible to them. Spring Up coaching has an expectation that the client is ready to engage in further learning and implementation of that learning outside of the session.
During the retreat itself:
- There will be plenty of space for you to ask questions or guide the learning based on what you need support in
- We encourage you to take care of yourself and do what will make you feel most comfortable including standing up, sitting down, laying down, stimming, turning your camera off, eating, moving around, stepping in and out of the room as needed
- Closed captions will be on for the entire retreat and all text on slides will be read aloud. There is also space for you to let your facilitator and breakout group peers know if there are other requests that could support you
- Most slides have accompanying visuals to support you in digesting information through text and imagery
- There are consistent breaks and pauses throughout the retreat in addition to the 1 hour break in the middle of the day
- Some breakout prompts include the option to journal independently instead of having conversation which allows you to choose how you prefer to digest and integrate what you are learning
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There are optional prompts throughout the day for somatic and embodied activities to get you into your body or to play a game. It is totally up to you if that is something that feels right, or if you would prefer to opt out.
Once the retreat is complete, you will get access to the slides from the day as well as suggestions for how you can learn more about the topics explored within the retreat. We will also share a feedback form for you to tell us how the experience was for you or if you have any suggestions to make it a better experience in the future.
In the spirit of popular education, Spring Up is committed to offering scholarship support to as many students as we can.
Our scholarship form is designed to prompt reflection and offer more context on our pricing structure, and also to give students an opportunity to request what they need from us.