Welcome to maintaining occupational balance during uncertain times: The importance of ‘Roles, Routines and Responsibilities’.
This course has been designed by specialist occupational therapists. The idea for the course was sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted on people’s lives across the world, though it’s content can be applied to a broad range of experiences.
The course is focuses on tips to maintaining occupational balance during these uncertain times and will guide you through the landscape of how an understanding of occupation (what it means and what are the key concepts) and how you can refine or learn new skills or knowledge as applied to your life right now. This will help your ability to better achieve occupational balance, make positive changes, and meet your needs and the needs of people around you.
Furthering your understanding of the concepts that underpin the concept of ‘occupation’, and how this links to wellbeing, will help you understand yourself better and identify things in your daily life that could be changed or adapted so that you are able to bring about positive change and optimise your wellbeing.
As a brief introduction, occupations refer to the things you do each day; the ‘Roles, Routines and Responsibilities’ you engage in or assume. Our wellbeing and how we see ourselves is closely linked to the things we do on a daily basis. How we spend our time and the activities we engage in provide us with a sense of meaning, purpose, identity, belonging and satisfaction.
The course will also take you through some practical or reflective questions. You may wish to make your own notes.
This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete but this timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the suggested activities and reflective questions. You do not need to complete the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course material it will remember where you got up to.