Webinars
We kick off each term with a free webinar, followed by three more sessions on Fridays through the term. Our Webinars are low-cost community gathering spaces where we practice skills together and dig deep into core concepts. These are discounted or free for our Patreon members and retainer clients. The topics that we choose for these webinars are often representative of the growing edge of our work, resulting in highly generative discussions. Below are our upcoming webinars & you can access our archive of all previous webinars available on bluelight.academy
We also present private webinars! If you are interested and would like to request our collective members to participate in a panel or serve as a speaker for an event, please reach out to us with the event logistics.
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 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.
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.
WEBINARS & RETREATS
Daylong Virtual Retreats
Our public retreats take some of our most requested content from our work with groups and organizations, and make them available to a broader audience. Upon completing a one-day retreat, participants will leave with both theoretical frameworks and concrete resources to support their work within their community. You can book any of our retreat topics for your private org or group.
On access: these retreats are virtual, offered in English with closed captions. All of our daylong retreats take place on Fridays from 8:30am-2:30pm PST / 9:30am-3:30pm MST / 11:30am - 5:30pm EST with an hour break included. Written and captioned video materials to prepare will be shared in advance. Upon registration, participants will fill out a survey to share access needs. If we cannot meet those needs, we will reach out and offer a refund and alternate options.
This spring, we are offering retreats on Harm Systems Design, Gender + Labor Equity, Conflict Analysis, and Transformative Justice. Daylong retreats are the perfect way to devote space and time to your learning and growth. All retreats come with a 1:1 coaching session with a Spring Up consultant as well as access to retreat materials on our bluelight academy platform.
Harm is pervasive in communities and institutions, how an organization responds to the harm is its accountability in action. This daylong retreat is great for organizational leaders, people from Human Resources or community accountability teams or entrepreneurs thinking about how to create systems in their endeavors. Through an examination of Organizational Accountability, what harm looks like in the participants’ context, and consideration of the legal liability requirements of organizations, participants will leave with examples and inspirations of how they can respond to harm given their unique context.
Friday, January 31st 2025
This retreat explores invisible labor like the mental load, emotional labor, and reproductive labor; how those contribute to inequitable distribution of labor and burn out; and the ways parenthood impacts inequitable pay and opportunity. Within this time we learn about social movements and strategies to address this inequity, what larger patterns this fits into within the economy, and how these trends show up specifically in “pink collar fields,” like nonprofits and education. Finally we discuss boundaries and strategies to shift these norms and patterns in our lives and work together.
Friday, February 28th 2025
What skills do we each need to learn in order to make a conflict generative force in our lives? How can conflict prompt us to learn more about ourselves, other people, and how the world works? The daylong retreat is great for anyone who is interested in deepening their understanding and analysis skills of conflict. Within the retreat, participants will examine fictional scenarios and engage with tools to support empathy building, understand and map power dynamics, investigate the scale of the harm, and discuss the choice points available throughout the conflict.
Friday, March 21st 2025
Private Webinars & Retreats
Interested in booking a retreat or webinar for your group?