Webinars
We kick off each term with a free webinar, followed by 3-5 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
All webinars happen from 5-6:30pm EST/4-5:30pm CST/3-4:30pm MST/2-3:30pm PST. A captioned recording of each webinar is made available via our bluelight academy platform for registrants who are unable to attend webinars live or registrants who would like to refer back to webinar content.
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.
WEBINARS & RETREATS
What’s the role of gossip and the rumor mill in our communities? How does it shape punishment and disposability? How can it show up as an accountability mechanism? How can we interrupt patterns of harmful gossip to have more direct communication while also being aware of power dynamics enough to know when we need to engage whisper networks as part of a transformative justice practice?
How do we recreate policing in our communities and in our minds? Let’s dig into the knowledge that psychoanalysis & liberation psychology can share about what cancellation serves in our psyches + what needs scapegoating meets in our communities and how else we can meet those needs that are grounded in repair, accountability, and healing.
We’ve been hearing a lot about community cases of anti-Blackness and the ways that identity politics can be weaponized to pull us further away from each other rather than coming together. So how can we be grounded in multiracial coalition building when we’re doing abolitionist work that is also not leaning into deference politics
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 summer, we are offering retreats on Practicing Cooperation: Power + Consent in Decision Making, Liberatory Facilitation: Holding Space to be Free Together, Solidarity Strategies: Equitable Multi-Racial Collaboration, and Harm Systems Design: Non-Punitive Approaches from Organizing to HR. 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.
Friday, June 5th 2026
What does it take to be free together? And, what is the role of the facilitator / educator in supporting that freedom?
The daylong retreat is great for anyone who facilitates learning experiences, whether they are teachers, trainers, researchers, community accountability facilitators, social workers, therapists, or leaders in the workplace. Through dismantling notions of what ‘should’ happen in facilitated spaces and how people ‘should’ learn, participants learn skills to lead people and spaces towards differentiation and self-directed learning. Registration for this retreat also includes a 1:1 coaching session to help integrate your learnings after the live session.
Friday, July 3rd 2026
Harm is pervasive in communities and institutions, how an organization responds to the harm is it's accountability in action.
The 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 a tangible prototype for how they will respond to harm given their unique context. Registration for this retreat also includes a group coaching session for the 2 or more registrants from the organization to make sure they have a workable system to implement moving forward.
Friday, August 7th 2026
What does it mean for our Transformative Justice practice to be rooted in lineage? How can we move beyond theory into practice?
bluelight academy's Transformative Justice retreat is an overview of core Transformative Justice roots and practices. Together we will review where this practice comes from, as well as the steps facilitate a community accountability process. During this daylong retreat be prepared to dig into lineage, practice, boundaries and go deep into a specific case study with peer practitioners.
Private Webinars & Retreats
Interested in booking a retreat or webinar for your group?