3. Travel – exploring other countries and cultures has become part of being
who I am and therefore part of my identity.
4. Educating my horses: enables me to just ‘be’. Am existing
in the moment and nothing else concerns me.
5. Chiefs supporter - being with close friends at the rugby and other
events evokes a feeling of belonging, it also forms a doing component to
my occupational identity.
6. Godmother – spending time with my goddaughter, a role that I will be
involved in for life, is ever-changing as she develops and a role which enables
me to ‘become’.
7. Student- an occupation I have been involved in in the past, and
again at present. Part of ‘becoming’ a qualified occupational therapist.
8. Team mate: being part of the round-the-lake relay team
enables me to feel a sense of belonging through occupation.
9. Squash: playing squash provides me with an opportunity to both ‘do’ and
‘belong’. I play the game both as an individual and as a team, and it plays a
large part in my occupational identity.
10. Attending Concerts: I try and attend at least two per year, usually
with a group of friends, it is certainly an occupation that I ‘do’ to enable me to
‘be’. Music is good for my spirit.
11. Family member - being a daughter, and sister provides me with many
occupational roles and experiences. Being part of my family has enabled me to become
what I am today, and will assist be to ‘become’ in the future. It has also provided me
with a sense of belonging.
