Application Deadline: Transformative Justice Summer Class

Join Spring Up during June–July 2021 for an online course on Transformative Justice. Learn more about everyday transformative justice tools, the roots of this philosophy and praxis, and build community around abolitionist, consensual, and liberatory ways of being. This six-module course has been designed and developed in community and collaboration with organizers, students, educators, care workers, and advocates. 

Apply to participate by May 14 at bit.ly/TJSummerClass (Note: Capacity is limited to 25 participants.)

Participation is sponsored by the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, in partnership with Seven Dancers Coalition and Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action.

We have space for up to 25 sponsored participants (meaning that you do not need to pay as an individual; NYSCASA has pre-paid these spots). The class will begin the week of June 7th and have weekly content released on our private platform through July 16th with optional weekly office hours. There will be two live Q+A's, one at the beginning during the week of June 7th, and one at the end during the week of July 16th.

Applicants who are selected will get access to:

• Two 90 minute cohort question & answer sessions with Spring Up team members; one at the beginning of the course and one at the end of the course.
• A print copy of Spring Up’s accompanying Transformative Justice workbook will be sent to you in the mail (including for international students)
• 6 modules of online content, each to be released weekly. Each module has about 1 - 1.5 hours of content to review including journaling and reflection prompts
• Weekly office hours with our TA’s to ask questions, work on the pre-work, or just hang out with the bluelight community
• Spring Up team members will be attuned to our online platform with the ability to respond to questions and comments left under the various resources and modules. We also encourage you to respond and engage with each other! The community is full of wisdom and is just as much about building lateral relationships between students as learning from Spring Up.
• If you complete the content during the course timeframe, you will receive a free surprise gift in the mail!

• Week of June 7th: Grounding in Transformative Justice core concepts including roots, values, and core terminology
• Week of June 14th: Trauma & Care including safety & care planning, boundaries, equitable care labor distribution, and everyday support practices
• Week of June 21st: Power, Consent, & Coercion including our power mapping tool to analyze complex and overlapping power dynamics, recognizing signs of coercion interpersonally and structurally, and frameworks to understand and practice consent
• Week of June 28th: Generative Conflict including how to analyze conflicts, de-escalation, patterns of conflict along race, gender and class lines, and the philosophy of Harm Reduction
• Week of July 5th: Shame & Accountability including unlearning perfectionism, abolishing your inner cop, and discerning between punishment and consequences
• Week of July 12th: Community Accountability including steps and roles in a process, tools, and examples / case studies

Apply to participate by May 14 at bit.ly/TJSummerClass (Note: Capacity is limited to 25 participants.)

This offering is part of our Ending Violence Without Violence Virtual Training Series. 

Learn more at www.endviolence2020.com.