Tutorial two: Occupational Engagement, Doing, Being, Becoming and Belonging.

Play is my chosen occupational engagement as you can play in so many different ways. Play is such a small word for how big it really is, play is defined as "To occupy oneself in amusement, sport, or other recreation" (Collins, 2012) everyone has participated in play at some point of their lives. I personally have grown up playing from playing with toys, playing in sport and playing set games such as a computer game or scrabble. During my fieldwork I was with children, every thing we did had some form of playing in it, the assessments were watching how the children played with others or just how they played by themselves.

The concepts of doing, being, becoming and belonging are all integral to the philosophy of occupational therapy, because “together, they epitomise occupation” (Wilcock, 1998b).

Rowles (1991) states that by 'doing', a person can learn and achieve a sense of accomplishment through occupational performance. The term 'doing' refers to the aspect of occupation that is goal orientated (Wilcock, 1998a).

 Wilcock states, Being, is being true and honest to yourself. It requires that people have time to truly get to know themselves "to discover and reflect" (Wilcock, 1998). most of my images are being as they are being true to themselves by being free and playing. the one with the lady in the sand is especially doing.

Becoming is the idea of being able to imagine a future self and who or what they wish to become later in their lives (Hammel, 2004). Becoming also incorporates ideas of self-perception and the ability of an individual to control their environment.

Belonging is shown through having relationships, friendships and mutual support (Hammel, 2004). It entails the relationships and meanings given to places and activities, as well as between people Rowles, (1991). the images of people dressing up with friends is to me what belonging is.  

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