Why do you need a toolkit?
Most of the practitioners I encounter have been conditioned to think about language as existing outside of themselves, and to be greater, and more important, than their own wellbeing.
You need skills to learn or teach your language, but you also need skills to expand wellbeing for yourself, and for those around you.
How do the 4 skills help you practice wellbeing?
As ILR practitioners we face conditions unlike any other kind of language worker, learner, or teacher.
Intergenerational trauma, lateral violence, and hostile colonial systems mean that ILR practitioners work under difficult circumstances that must be balanced with rest, recovery, and reward.