SPRING UP
Organizational Consulting & Support
ABOUT US
What does collective liberation look like in practice? Members of our collective have spent decades pursuing freedom through study and practice inside numerous movements, nonprofits, and academic institutions. Our team of transformative justice practitioners and liberatory facilitators has been supporting organizations in building stronger infrastructure around conflict and harm, moving from shared values to tangible practices, and getting better at task and relational accountability for many years. We have also been practicing shared leadership together in our worker co-operative. To learn more about our team and our background, visit www.timetospringup.org.
OUR APPROACH TO CONSULTING
Are you looking for an accountability and design partner in building a culture of shared leadership?
Spring Up’s Getting Free Together consulting services identify the root causes that make it difficult to collaborate through conflict mediation or organizational accountability audits. We provide hands-on support in getting unstuck and implementing a clear plan through group coaching. Our interactive group trainings build shared language and frameworks to get the whole team on board, and include 1:1 support for each team member to apply the learning to their day to day work.
Our Services
Organizational Accountability Audits
System-wide assessment of strengths and challenges resulting in a customized set of recommendations.
Group Leadership Coaching
Design work with 3-6 invested leaders to identify and implement a targeted plan.
Group and 1:1
Conflict Mediation
Facing a roadblock of interpersonal conflict? Mediation surfaces the needs and next steps to move frorward.
Six Month
Cohort Program
Learn how to practice sharing power and tackling conflict generatively within your teams and programs.
"Thanks to Spring Up, we have shifted our entire ethos around conflict - really feeling into a stated community agreement to approach it as generative. The Spring Up team is incredibly knowledgeable. They listen from a grounded place and share wisdom rooted in their own experiences, always with deep salience and applicability to what we are navigating."
"I would love to recommend Spring Up to all organizations! For organizations that want to bring generative conflict and accountability into their worlds and lived ways of being, I think Spring Up are a must."
"Thank you for reminding us of our strengths during this time of crisis. It's been helpful to look at what we are doing well in order to work on what it is a challenge for us collectively. You all have guided us through the findings with so much integrity, grace and nuance."
Our Clients
THE COHORT PROGRAM
Is your team ready to get free together by implementing liberatory collaboration practices?
This series is hosted over 6 months, bringing together leaders and decision makers from up to 6 values-aligned organizations to learn from Spring Up and each other about how to practice sharing power and tackling conflict generatively within your teams and programs. This experience will invite 2-6 of your team members to learn, practice, and design new systems and tools to operationalize your values, including guidance and support sharing back with the rest of your team or community. Watch the recorded free info webinar here to learn more.
Over the course of 6 months your team will:
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Engage in learning alongside and from other movement leaders in full cohort sessions
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Discuss and co-design in small group coaching sessions tailored to your groups needs with 2 paired Spring Up consultants
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Deepen their understanding through independent assignments
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Get hands on support through 1:1 coaching
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Receive two reports synthesizing your progress including strengths, challenges, and next steps to implement your intentions coming out of the program.
Hear reflections from program Alumni Bre Dovez of Joy As Resistance
“The team has had a resoundingly positive experience with the content. I have seen in myself and others ongoing reflection and dialogue/engagement with the concepts we've covered. I have also seen integration of the conflict and tension content in real time in recent differences of opinion and misalignments.”
– 2024 Cohort Participant
Spring Up will be an accountability partner, trainer, and amplifier in your team’s efforts so that by the end of the 6 months you will have a strong toolkit and clear plan of action to implement what you have learned. By the end of the program, you will also have initial drafts of practices, policies, or systems for your team to implement based on your organization's priorities; these could include but are not limited to strategies to:
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Build shared language with one another during onboarding
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Address conflict generatively
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Share feedback with each other
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Practice accountability with yourselves, each other, and the communities you serve
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Address harm non-punitively
“I have grown so much as a leader through this program! I have been challenged to see the power I hold to shape my team culture even though I am not a manager, and I have developed much deeper relationships with my colleagues who participated in this program alongside me even though we work in different departments. It’s incredible to look back and see how much of a difference these 6 months have had in my role on the team and my perception of myself and my power!”
- 2024 Cohort Participant
Does this sound like the right fit for your team?
Apply for the 2026 Spring - Summer cohort below
THE PODCAST
What does collective liberation look like in practice? Join Spring Up co-founders Stas & Leander as they host guests to talk about collaboration, practices, and media that inspire liberatory visioning. The purpose of this podcast is to come together in conversation with collaborators, collective members, and mentors to explore how we get free together by: Co-creating visions of the world we want to live in, building our capacity to collaborate + hold conflict, and sharing the movies, games, and tv shows that are inspiring us and getting us through! Follow & stream the show wherever you listen to podcasts.