Gaya (they/them) is a dancer, organizer, bodyworker, and facilitator focused on the body and imagination as sites of birthing and nurturing abolitionist and caste-free worlds. They are at home under the cottonwood trees in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce, Dakota and Anishinaabe lands.
Spring Up is a collective of care workers, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and coaches practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight academy. We cultivate a culture of consent and liberty for all through storytelling and popular education. Created by Spring Up, bluelight academy of the liberatory arts hosts classes and retreats in spring, summer, and fall terms available to the public and to private cohorts.
Spring Up supports advocates, organizers, teachers, and care providers in learning how to operationalize their values. Our transformative justice curriculum has been designed and developed in community and collaboration with organizers, students, educators, care workers, and advocates. At Spring Up we have been practicing and teaching about Transformative Justice, harm reduction, and consent since our founding in 2013.
Everyday Transformative Justice
Gaya (they/them) and Mara (they/them) from Spring Up ( https://www.timetospringup.org/ ) unpack how transformative justice responds to the violence of binary logics under white supremacy by offering us visions for creative, culturally rooted strategies to respond to harm.
The flow:
*Binaries and how White Supremacy is based on binary logics
*What is Transformative Justice + Unpack three core types of transformative justice including transformative organizing, liberatory visioning and community accountability
*Understand how communities of practice rooted in TJ have historically come out of an...Read moreti-violence work around gender based violence, intimate partner violence and family violence
*Diving into our unique roots in community based harm responses
*Explore skills to practice TJ with integrity by increasing choice, centering de-escalation and Indigenous led responses to harm
*Apply real world scenario practice of implementing TJ responses to harm
AASECT CE Info:
Core Knowledge Areas:
A. Ethics and ethical behavior.
C. Socio-cultural, familial factors (e.g., ethnicity, culture, religion, spirituality, socioeconomic status, family values) in relation to sexual values and behaviors.
D. Issues related to sexual orientation and/or gender identity: heterosexuality; issues and themes impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual people; gender identity and expression.
F. Diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles including, but not limited to, polyamory, swinging, BDSM and tantra.
J. Sexual exploitation including sexual abuse, sexual harassment and sexual assault.
O. Professional communication and personal reflection skills.
Sex Therapy (ST) Training:
ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
ST5. Principles of consultation, collaboration and referral.
ST6. Ethical decision-making and best practice. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Apply an analysis of how binary logics form the roots of violence in many situations of violence and harm
- Assess your own backgrounds and experiences in abolitionist/community-based responses to harm and violence to choose what to draw on in their practice
- Implement skills of de-escalation and designing consequences as responses to harm
- Learn examples from a cooperative perspective on implementing Transformative Justice practices into a business
- Define the nuances of what is and is not possible within adapting Transformative Justice as an institution
Friday, March 14, 2025
Live Interactive Webinar
03:00 PM MDT - 06:00 PM MDT
EARN 3 CE Credit Hours
About the speakers
Gayatri Narayanan
Mara Martinez-Hewitt
Mara is a mixed queer artist and community organizer living in the occupied Tongva lands of Los Angeles. They focus on healing justice for survivors, pleasure activism, land rematriation, DIY mental health, decolonial facilitation, and mutual aid efforts beyond borders.
Spring Up is a collective of care workers, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and coaches practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight academy. We cultivate a culture of consent and liberty for all through storytelling and popular education. Created by Spring Up, bluelight academy of the liberatory arts hosts classes and retreats in spring, summer, and fall terms available to the public and to private cohorts. Spring Up supports advocates, organizers, teachers, and care providers in learning how to operationalize their values. Our transformative justice curriculum has been designed and developed in community and collaboration with organizers, students, educators, care workers, and advocates. At Spring Up we have been practicing and teaching about Transformative Justice, harm reduction, and consent since our founding in 2013.
Spring Up is a collective of care workers, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and coaches practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight academy. We cultivate a culture of consent and liberty for all through storytelling and popular education. Created by Spring Up, bluelight academy of the liberatory arts hosts classes and retreats in spring, summer, and fall terms available to the public and to private cohorts. Spring Up supports advocates, organizers, teachers, and care providers in learning how to operationalize their values. Our transformative justice curriculum has been designed and developed in community and collaboration with organizers, students, educators, care workers, and advocates. At Spring Up we have been practicing and teaching about Transformative Justice, harm reduction, and consent since our founding in 2013.
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 3 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact info@assect.org. Provider 22-148-STNM
CE Process Info
Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.
A continuing education certificate for the event will be obtained using the website, CE-Go. Before the event, you will receive an email containing a link to CE-Go. (This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event).
Upon accessing the CE-Go website, you will be able to:
- Join Webinar Sessions
- Complete evaluation forms for the event
- Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go process, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com