Tutorial Two: Occupational Engagement, Doing, Being, Becoming and Belonging

This post and slideshow are on ‘Occupational Engagement – Doing, Being, Becoming and Belonging.’ My chosen occupation for this blog entry is coming together through the preparing, making and sharing of food. I chose this, as it was the topic that we had for our workshop in first year. It was also something I did on my Fieldwork 2 placement last year; I ran a baking activity for the rest home residents. This also relates to me the doing, being, becoming and belonging of myself as an Occupational Therapy student. 

 “Doing is so important that it is impossible to envisage the world of humans without it.” (Wilcock, 1998, p.249).  Doing is something that we are constantly engaging in everyday, whether we are aware of it or not, and whether it is things we want to or feel we have to engage in.

“Being is about being true to ourselves, to our nature, to our essence, and what is distinctive about us” (Wilcock, 1998, p.250). Being in my mind is simply existing as a human and being who you want to be.

I see becoming as something that happens progressively, but it is usually a goal in life or a significant event happening in your life. Wilcock (1998) states that becoming can be “a sense of future, even though in many ways becoming is dependent on what people do and are in the present, and on our history in terms of cultural development.” (p.251)

Once you have become something you will then also belong to somewhere. Belonging is “the necessary contribution of social interaction, mutual support and friendship, and the sense of being included, to occupational performance and life satisfaction.” (Hammell, 2004, p.302).

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Image 1: Becoming a friend, preparing food together

Image 2: Doing- preparing food together

Image 3: Becoming a friend, preparing food together

Image 4: Doing- preparing food together

Image 5: Doing- preparing food together

Image 6: Being guests, through making of food

Image 7: Being guests, through making of food, Becoming friends

Image 8: Being an individual, Becoming a group

Image 9: Being a group (Occupational Therapy Students)

Image 10: Belonging, or trying to belong to a group

Image 11: Area to come together to eat and socialize

Image 12: Belonging, meanings

Image 13: Doing- preparing food together

Image 14: Becoming friends through the sharing of food

Image 15: Food to share

Image 16: Sharing of food in all shapes and sizes

Image 17: Belonging to a group, Being friends and guests

Image 18: MSN logo, groups coming together

Image 19: Belonging to a group, coming together through the sharing of food

Image 20: Coming together through the sharing of food in a group

This slideshow also relates to me:

Doing an OT workshop

Being an OT student

Becoming an OT

Belonging to the OT school

For the photos that were not mine, I made sure that I referenced these appropriately. I have used photos of my own, with informed consent given by the individuals who were in the photos. Since some of the photos were my own I was able to use them without any other ethical implications.

References

Hammell, K.W. (2004). Dimensions of meaning in the occupations of daily life.  Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71 (5). 

Wilcock, A.A. (1998).  Reflections on doing, being becoming.  Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 248-256.