What is an Oasis?
An oasis is a way to visualize safety within your ILR practice.
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Safety
When your nervous system relaxes.
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Why do you need to visualize safety in your ILR practice?
Being an ILR practitioner can be tough on your body, mind, and spirit.
In understanding how people, places, and practices within your ILR world impact your well-being.
You gain agency over your ILR practice even under difficult circumstances.
Safety is the lens you use to understand impact.
Why is understanding impact central to your ILR practice?
Many ILR practitioners are immersed in systemic oppression, historical trauma, and lateral violence that causes them to feel unsafe and experience harm.
Unsafe people, places, and practices are bad for your health and well-being.
They can cause you fatigue, stress, anxiety, depression, apathy, and hopelessness.
They can deplete the life force necessary to sustain your ILR practice.
Language revitalization often stirs the deep waters of pain, grief, and suffering because language connects to everything we are as human beings.
How does understanding safety help you sustain your ILR practice?
ILR practitioners need people, places, and practices that are safe.
Safety is the foundation of rest, recovery, and healing.
If your ILR practice doesn’t contain rest, recovery, and healing, then you are walking the path to burning out.
Many ILR practitioners are immersed in systemic oppression, historical trauma, and lateral violence that causes them to feel unsafe and experience harm.
How does understanding safety help you sustain your ILR practice?
SLOW DOWN
Understanding how to create safety for yourself doesn’t happen when you are overwhelmed, stressed, or moving fast.
You need to commit time and effort to reflecting on your ILR practice.
If you can do that, then increasing safety becomes possible.
MAKE SPACE
Understanding how to create safety for yourself doesn’t happen without expanding your horizons.
You need to make space in your ILR practice for new people, practices, and perspectives.
If you can do that, then increasing safety becomes possible.
Journaling and Reflection Exercises
Write down in a journal your reflections on these questions.
