tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717645724652422796.post700617082110682852..comments2023-10-20T10:28:16.989+01:00Comments on University of Salford Occupational Therapy Education Blog: How do YOU engage in activity?Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04020158010421360396noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717645724652422796.post-15124404197573638822008-10-29T15:08:00.000+00:002008-10-29T15:08:00.000+00:00Hi GeoffThanks for your supportive comments. I sha...Hi Geoff<BR/>Thanks for your supportive comments. I shall email you as suggested.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020158010421360396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717645724652422796.post-86859090421335699412008-10-28T16:17:00.000+00:002008-10-28T16:17:00.000+00:00I think your blog is great, and I would like to fe...I think your blog is great, and I would like to feature you on the new<BR/>Wellsphere. We feature only the best health bloggers on our WellPages,<BR/>which are special pages that our Health Knowledge Engine crafts to give<BR/>our users answers to their health questions. We would feature you on all<BR/>the pages on topics that our knowledge engine finds are related to your<BR/>blog postings. Because we have over 2 million visitors each month (and we<BR/>are growing rapidly), you would benefit from an expanded audience for<BR/>your writings. If you would like us to feature you, send me an email to<BR/>Dr.Rutledge@wellsphere.com<BR/><BR/>Cheers, GeoffDr.Rutledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07378666836803624468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717645724652422796.post-42525832117626187632008-10-21T16:49:00.000+01:002008-10-21T16:49:00.000+01:00HiLast year i did this module and went chocolate m...Hi<BR/>Last year i did this module and went chocolate making. I found the concepts of the articles difficult to grasp at first however once i did get it, it made me realise many concepts around occupational therapy, which i felt i did not fully understand before. it made me realise that by participating in an activity as a group that it was meaningful and purposeful to us all in very different ways and that occupational therapists factilitating craft sessions these are many things we need to experience to enable our clients to become. I found from this module that we all gained something different from participating in this occupation. Some had prior meaning or symbolic meaning, some experience flow, some felt that the end product was important and some experienced well being by being able to share our chocolates with other. there were many other concepts i had not appreciated before such as the supportive environment and the praise from others. i realise now that by "being" creative through activity we all experienced well being and were motivated to do it again. it gave me a personal experience of the postive aspects of what clients experience by engaging in meaningful and purposeful how they can become occupational beings. also how there may be underlying meanings which the therapist or client may or may not be aware of until they engaged in the activity.sarah hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634440627328596266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717645724652422796.post-58456904162086364052008-10-21T12:41:00.000+01:002008-10-21T12:41:00.000+01:00@SarahNow, as an occupational therapist I may say ...@Sarah<BR/>Now, as an occupational therapist I may say that it appears that your occupational balance could be dysfunctional! It is important to get a balance of work, rest and play - at times the balance shifts with deadlines and unavoidable situations - but then you should be able to come back to balance again in order for health and wellbeing to be maintained.<BR/>Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to plan in some time to engage in a leisure activity you have never done before and to allow yourself to be immersed for the time it takes to complete the session/activity/product etc. Maybe you might feel able to write a blog post on your experience. I'd be interested to know what you think.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020158010421360396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717645724652422796.post-22441839542518556762008-10-13T20:20:00.000+01:002008-10-13T20:20:00.000+01:00My problem is that I am too immersed in my work/st...My problem is that I am too immersed in my work/study. Doing soemthing completely different would be really good for me, I know. It takes some degree of discipline though, to tear myself away.Sarah Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00480597227427423793noreply@blogger.com