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Stas Schmiedt & Leander Roth

Co-Founders, Spring Up and Bluelight Academy of the Liberatory Arts

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Stas Schmiedt & Leander Roth

Co-Founders, Spring Up and Bluelight Academy of the Liberatory Arts

Stas (they/them) and Leander (he/they) have been blending mindfulness and social entrepreneurship for 15 years as partners and the co-founders of Spring Up and bluelight academy of the liberatory arts. Both diagnosed with PTSD as a result of campus violence, their journey began with pursuing  personal and collective healing. They built their own cooperative social enterprise to bring together the tools of conscious social change, participatory action research, restorative justice, mindfulness, somatic experiencing, community education, and biomimicry. Now a national organization with 9 member owners, Spring Up has provided transformative online education and consulting in conflict and harm response, liberatory facilitation, and collective governance to hundreds of organizations and over 7000 alumni. Their book and podcast “Getting Free Together” shares their original tools and approach, grounded in Integral Theory and organizational alchemy.

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