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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In a society that prioritizes logic and the mind over the body and embodiment, we are intentionally disconnected from our bodies’ ability to discern between what is unsafe and what is positive stress, or the discomfort of learning and growing. One of the ways we can learn the skills to discern for ourselves is by reconnecting with this body knowledge through somatics. Somatics offers us tools to be able to build the skills and practices that support us in regulating our bodies and nervous systems, such as co-regulation, grounding, meditation, and stimming. This allows us to connect with our needs, helping us to build strategies to meet them and notice when they are being violated. Part of this involves working through our internalized and embodied ableism and the ways we have been socialized to suppress our pain and discomfort in order to be productive.
Live webinar on Friday, Mar. 13th, 2026 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.
Pricing + Scholarships
This webinar is offered at a sliding scale between $25 and $75 per person. We are not a nonprofit, we are a network of practitioners who do this work balanced with other commitments and grassroots support makes this work sustainable for us. If you would need a scholarship to be able to participate or for currency accessibility please use this form - scholarships are available upon request. The minimum that we ask all students to pay for access to a webinar is $15. Webinars are recorded so that they are available for registrants to access whenever they would like. Our Patreon supporters who pay at least $10/month receive 50% off all webinars.
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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 here at bluelight academy. We cultivate a culture of consent and liberty for all through storytelling and popular education.