2020 World Occupational Therapy Day – Interview with Miss Mallory!
Our 2020 World OT Day celebration is coming to an end! Today, you will know more about the Ryan sisters, founders of The Dance Ability Movement, who are also OTs! Check out Miss Mallory’s interview below and stay tuned for Miss Jade’s post. How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? Throughout my career, I've been fortunate to 'reimagine doing' in many ways with my clients. Thinking outside the box, enabling them to see how they can do things in different ways, and many times it's more about supporting the environment around them to see what really matters [...]
2020 World Occupational Therapy Day – Interview with Miss Amanda!
Continuing with our 2020 World OT Day celebration posts, we are sharing with you an interview with Miss Amanda, one of our new OTs! We hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for tomorrow's interviews with Miss Mallory and Miss Jade! How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? Participating in occupations is more than being able to complete a task “perfectly” or in the “right way”. Throughout my OT career, I have reimagined participation in occupations as being able to do the activities that you want or need to do in whatever way works best for you! More [...]
2020 World Occupational Therapy Day – Interview with Miss Nadia!
As you may know, October 27th is World OT Day and we are celebrating our wonderful OTs throughout the week! Today, you will learn more about Miss Nadia! We hope you enjoy it! How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? Participation can look different for everyone, and how it looks on the outside doesn't matter. All that matters is how it looks to the person participating. There is no correct way to participate in an activity as long as you find the activity meaningful, engaging, and fun! More about Miss Nadia What I like most about being [...]
2020 World Occupational Therapy Day – Interview with Miss Mara!
In this post, as part of our 2020 World OT Day celebration, we would like to recognize Miss Mara, one of our new OTs who joined our team this season! We hope you enjoy it! Don’t miss tomorrow’s interviews with Miss Amanda and Miss Nadia! How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? Reimagining participation in occupations gives us the unique opportunity to make it our own, make it different and maybe even make it better. It’s all about perspective. As I start my journey as an occupational therapist, I am inspired to think outside the box to [...]
2020 World Occupational Therapy Day – Interview with Miss Elyse!
Continuing with our 2020 World OT Day celebration posts, today we are sharing with you an interview with Miss Elyse, one of our wonderful OTs! We hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for the next interviews! How you’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout your career? To me, being an occupational therapist means using a holistic and strengths-based approach to help clients participate in activities that are meaningful to them while promoting their overall health and well-being. I believe that occupational therapists are well suited to “reimagine doing,” as we work collaboratively with clients and their families to highlight the [...]
2020 World Occupational Therapy Day – ‘Reimagine Doing’
Every year, the World Federation of Occupational Therapists creates a campaign to celebrate World Occupational Therapy Day, which takes place on October 27th. The 2020 campaign theme is ‘Reimagine Doing’ and the main goal is to celebrate the expertise of occupational therapy for reimagining participation in occupations that provide value and meaning to everyday life. To join this global initiative, we’ve invited our Occupational Therapists to share with us how they’ve been reimagining participation in occupations throughout their careers. They have also answered other questions so our dancers can get to know our OTs better! Starting today until the end [...]