Getting Free Together Textbook

This 260 page textbook is a valuable collection of the frameworks and toolkits Spring Up has developed over the last 13 years to support organizations in: 
Making decisions
Navigating conflict
Communicating clearly and compassionately 
Making values - aligned policy 
Self-management 
Implementing sociocracy (circle-based governance) 
Operationalizing accountability 
Bringing restorative and transformative justice practices into the workplace 
Integrating disability justice and access
 
This book is structured around Spring Up’s Organizational Accountability Wheel, in 4 quadrants covering shared language and frameworks, culture, conflict, harm response, and feedback. It includes essays, workbook pages, self-assessments, case studies and supplemental resources. 
 
This book is for you if you are actively shaping culture and policy in an organization of any structure (cooperative, nonprofit, foundation, small business, advocacy group, co-housing, etc.).
 
“Getting Free Together, by the Spring Up Collective, is an extraordinary toolkit and pathway for personal, institutional, and systemic transformation. Through a clear examination of the roots of oppression that dominate our current institutions and systems, and through the practical framing of an alternative paradigm for transformative ways of relating, Getting Free Together makes readily accessible the steps and capacities we need to create collective liberation.  Through compelling case studies, applied practices and reflection, and clear frameworks, this book offers all the guidance necessary to do the hard, but essential inner and organizational work to embody consciousness towards social justice. In this urgent moment when we can often feel disconnected from earth, each other, and our values, Getting Free Together is a roadmap for our return to connection, compassion, and radical care.” — Gretchen Steidle, Founder of Circles for Conscious Change and Author of Leading From Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation
 
“Getting Free Together contains a wellspring of wisdom on building a collective organization that is grounded, adaptive, and enduring. Rich in concepts, examples, and helpful tools, this book by Spring Up Collective offers practical and detailed guidance based upon years of experience as a collective organization and as one that has supported others to move through many stages of growth and conflict. Emphasizing the framework of "organizational accountability" as a parallel to "community accountability," this book takes seriously the internal relational work that is fundamental to our capacity to remain steadfast as we face challenging external struggles today and in the years to come.” — Mimi Kim, founder of Creative Interventions and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
 
“This book is a clear and accessible guide for anyone wanting to take steps toward collective liberation in their groups or organizations. It strikes a balance between being thoughtful, doable, accessible, and aspirational all at once. For those feeling overwhelmed about where to begin with liberatory practices, this offers a gentle but solid starting point—a useful companion on the journey to shift away from the default patterns of top-down, dominant culture.” — Ted Rau, co-founder of Sociocracy For All and co-author of Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy