Find your way to Wholeness
The Model of Occupational Wholeness was developed based on a series of research projects investigating the concept of Occupational Balance and its application in practice. MOW is a new way of Exploring, Rethinking and Replanning occupations (Doings) that leads to a balanced life from the perspective of the Doer. MOW introduces the Harmony between Doings that meet the needs for Being, Belonging and Becoming in different Contexts of one’s life as a contributing factor to one’s health and wellbeing. MOW focuses on the sense of Wholeness as an outcome of meeting Being, Belonging and Becoming needs through Doings.
What MOW aims to achieve?
The MOW tries to aid helpees (the individual) to have a better understanding of their Self, their Context and the interaction of the two in shaping people’s sense of Being, Belonging and Becoming and Doings. Individuals develop a sense of Fulfilment based on Harmony between their Needs and the way they meet them. Identifying every individual sense of Harmony relates to the right combination of Doings that can Fulfil all aspects of an individual’s existence that is about who they are and will be in Connection with and Relation to their Context. For example, for a person with limited cognitive, emotional and physical Capacity, the right combination of Doings could be restricted to their Personal and Contextual Capacities. What they can Do might be restricted due to limited Capacities. However, they still could identify a right combination of Doings to meet their Needs for Being, Belonging and Becoming and not just on a survival level. This means even an individual with the most limited Capacity could still Connect to time, space and people in a fair world to achieve their sense of Occupational Wholeness.
The MOW intervention is based on making Change and/or Adapt in people’s Doings, Thinking, Feeling and their Contexts.
MOW intervention
