HEALING
Safety
When your nervous system relaxes.
While stressors in our environment have a huge influence, safety is ultimately an internal experience.
- Safety emerges from our embodied experience as ILR practitioners.
- Our embodied experience as ILR practitioners has roots in both our individual and collective histories.
- Embodied experience is both highly personal and deeply communal.
The same ILR environment can feel safe enough to one practitioner and not safe enough to a different practitioner.
Sometimes the stressors that impact your safety as an ILR practitioner are obvious.
- Environments without the necessary resources, skills, or support to create a positive learning experience.
- A pervasive sense of urgency and pressure to respond to the crisis of language loss.
- Dysfunctional community dynamics filled with pain, blame, and conflict.
Sometimes the stressors that impact your safety as an ILR practitioner are NOT obvious.
My mentor is kind and patient, but I still have a deep fear of trying to talk in our language.
My ILR team works well together but I worry constantly about how the larger community is going to respond to our effort.
Nobody puts pressure on me, but I still feel this overwhelming sense that it’s my responsibility to save our language.