Transformative Justice Workbook

This workbook is a collection of frameworks and resources Spring Up has developed over the past decade to understand and intervene in systemic, institutional, inter group, interpersonal, and internal harm and violence.

Spring Up has especially focused on gender based violence (sexual harm, intimate partner violence, relationship abuse, homophobia and transphobia) and how GBV intersects with and is compounded by other systems of violence. This work has taken place in academic and political institutions, community based and nonprofit organizations, informal family and friend group settings, and through much personal reflection and dialogue. They have workshopped and developed these tools through dozens of trainings for youth organizers, social workers, restorative and transformative justice practitioners, sexual violence and reproductive justice advocates, family and friends. They have also implemented all of these tools in facilitating transformative justice and community accountability processes. Together, they can support you in understanding the dynamics and manifestations of violence and harm, how power and privilege operate, and the steps and composition of accountability processes around a variety of types of harm.