Videos
This 5 minute video featuring Stas + Leander (2 Spring Up cofounders) describes how consent can be a critical framework for violence prevention and harm reduction. Get copies of our Cultivate Consent Workbook or take our our Cultivate Consent Mini Class.
This 10 minute video featuring many speakers provides a brief definition and framing for what Transformative Justice means and looks like. Get copies of our Transformative Justice Workbook or take our 6 week Community Care + Accountability course.
This 4 minute video featuring Stas + Leander (2 Spring Up cofounders) defines shame and the way that it blocks accountability rather than supports it. Dive deeper with our Community Care + Accountability 6 week course.
Resources
Questions to analyze a conflict
10 questions to unpack power dynamics, systems of oppression, needs, and next steps. Get practice with these steps & learn more at the Strategies for Strategic Conflict webinar or the Conflict Analysis Retreat.
Transformative Justice Values
Get a copy of the values that guide our Transformative Justice (TJ) and community accountability practices. Learn more with the TJ zine, TJ mini class, Community Accountability Webinar, Everyday TJ webinar, or Community Care + Accountability 6 week course.
Community Agreements for Facilitation
Values and practices for liberatory facilitation of retreats, workshops, and meetings. See these in action and learn how to practice with them at the Liberatory Facilitation retreat or Unlearning Through Teaching course.
Power Map Generator
Toolkit for intersectional power mapping to visualize context specific, relational, and identity based power differences. Get practice with this tool at the Conflict Analysis Retreat or in the 6 week Community Care & Accountability Course.
Organizational Accountability Wheel
The OAW is a holistic framework for relationship building, informed consent, harm prevention and response grounded in the four elements. Learn more with the Organizational Accountability Webinar, by joining the Harm Systems Design retreat, or hiring Spring Up for an audit or consultation.
How to Work With Me Guide
This guide is to help team members get to know each other better and de-stigmatize having different boundaries, communication norms, and access needs. Get support working on this through coaching or Spring Up consultation, and learn how to use this tool to navigate conflict at the Conflict Analysis Retreat.
How to Live With Me Guide
This guide is for people co-living, living in intentional community, or co-housing to get more explicit with one another about their needs, boundaries, and strategies for healthy communication. Get support working on this through 1:1 coaching and learn how to use this tool to navigate conflict at the Conflict Analysis Retreat.
Emergency Preparedeness Checklist
This tool can help you plan for emergencies such as natural disasters, or needing to flee an unsafe or abusive environment. Book coaching with us to get further support in emergency planning.
Time management toolkit
Strategies to manage your time, minimize stress, and maximize joy for leaders, organizers, and people who are self-employed. Get more support with time management strategies through coaching and consultation.
Questions to cope with the inevitability of change
Octavia Butler says God is change, and yet change can bring up grief, anxiety, and anger. Process these questions and suggested readings to help you navigate change. Get more support through coaching and consultation.
Lessons from Mushrooms
5 biomimicry lessons from fungi about collaboration, consent, and sustainability. Learn more about fungi through the resources listed on our Mycelial Learning booklist.
Worksheets + Tools
Safety & Care planning can support you in identifying your resources and strategizing around boundaries and self-care.
Safety & Care Plans
Conference
Safety & Care Plan
Conference Safety & Care Plan (En Español)
Queer + Trans
Safety & Care Plan
Workplace
Safety & Care Plan
Intentional Community +
Co-housing Safety & Care Plan
Survivor
Safety & Care Plan
Teacher/Facilitator
Safety & Care Plan
This 90 minute webinar for the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Violence explores the roots of Transformative Justice, core values that guide this work, and our safety and care planning tools. Get the Transformative Justice for Gender Based Violence Bundle.
In this 90 minute video, Mariame Kaba interviews Spring Up Cofounders, Stas and Leander. Together they explore core definitions, case studies, and personal history with Transformative Justice. Get copies of our Transformative Justice Workbook or take our 6 week Community Care + Accountability course.
This 90 minute webinar in partnership with Vassar College explores the idea of community care within a university context, including case studies and strategies for practicing TJ on college campuses. Take the 6 week Community Care + Accountability course, get the Spring Up zine bundle, or join our Patreon.
Transformative Justice
This is a list of books that go along with our 6 week Transformative Justice course on bluelight academy of the liberatory arts.
Liberatory Education
This is a list of books that are referenced in our Unlearning Through Teaching at bluelight academy of the liberatory arts.
Consent, Gender, Power
This book list goes along with our Gender Liberation course at bluelight academy of the liberatory arts
Mycelial Learning
This booklist includes resources on mushrooms that inspire us at Spring Up and bluelight academy of the liberatory arts.
Booklists
Resilience & Revitalization
An anthology of abolitionists visions through comics, poems, star charts, recipes, and more featuring works from over 25 queer, disabled, incarcerated, and of color contributors. Access the online course for free below and get a print copy or related merch from our shop.
