LEXICON
ILR Practice
The feelings, thoughts, and actions that comprise how you approach language revitalization.
Many ILR practitioners haven’t been taught to examine the feelings, thoughts, and actions that compromise their ILR practice.
Examining the feelings, thoughts, and actions that compromise your ILR practice creates potential for intentional change.
Intentional change is when you exercise agency over your feelings, thoughts, and actions (your behavior).
In exercising agency you can seek to build an ILR practice that supports your wellbeing.
An ILR practice that supports your wellbeing is created through a system that helps you change your behavior (feelings, thoughts, and actions).
The feeling of fear of losing language leads to the thought that you must prevent loss by any means necessary results in the action of working sixty hours a week.
You want an ILR practice that supports your wellbeing.
“I need to approach my ILR practice differently.”
Feelings
It does feel like we our losing our language, but if I keep working like this I’m going to burnout. I’m going to work on feeling less urgency.
Thoughts
I’m going to stop placing pressure on myself to save our language before all the elder speakers are gone. I’m doing the best I can.
Actions
I commit to leaving work by 5 pm and going home to be with my family. I need more rest and recovery for my ILR practice to be sustainable.
REFLECTION