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Dunedin Videos

Here's a collection of the videos produced in Dunedin for component task number 4

 

 

 

 

 

Intangible Concepts To A Blind Person

Here's one of Tommy Edisons You tube clips we looked at in the lecture as an example of ways of knowing.

Rekindle

Rekindle

Rekindle is a social enterprise that makes furniture, sculpture, interiors and jewellery from waste wood. We focus on the social and environmental value of our work, that’s what makes us tick.

Rekindle is concerned equally with:

• Reusing wood waste

• Enabling meaningful transformative work opportunities

• Creating a healthy and satisfying workplace that encourages learning

• Nurturing creative responses to wood waste

• Producing commercially viable and marketable products that increase demand for reuse of wood waste.

Our mission is to support communities to utilise their wood waste fully and in doing so, maximize the benefits of the purposeful work involved. Rekindle works to create employment and learning opportunities, and to actively enable people to participate in meaningful valued activity. We are a social enterprise strongly committed to these concerns, and any profits go into development of opportunities that further our ability to do this work.

Beautiful ancient and irreplaceable indigenous timber such as kauri, matai and rimu are most commonly diverted from waste and reused at Rekindle.

In Christchurch we are working to intercept the hurried disposal of reusable timber from earthquake-damaged homes, but there is so much wood going to waste that we cannot save due to limited resources. Rekindle products are a constructive response from within Christchurch as it remembers and rebuilds.

 

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Juliet Arnott is an artist and designer, and has been an occupational therapist for 17 years. Last year, she founded Rekindle, a social enterprise that makes furniture and other useful objects from waste wood.

Ampsurf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULK8NPJm1sM&feature=player_embedded#

Photojournalist Trishna Patel's profile on amputee surfer and activist, Dana Cummnigs.

This clips well worth a look. 

The challenges of explaining what OTs do

The following is one of a series of videos on youtube that provide examples of common challenges in explaining our practice to clients and fellow health professional.  A warning some of the language in the other videos is a little harsh.

Does this the interaction in this video seem familiar from your fieldwork experiences?
Why is there misunderstanding here?
What might change this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MqgVmHdXw



 

Warrior Games: Warrior Transition Command

I saw this in todays paper (ODT) and looked up their website.  An example of healing and adaptation through the occupation of competitive sport.  This is what the website says...

The Warrior Games showcases the resilient spirit of today's wounded, ill, or injured service members from all branches of the military. After overcoming significant physical and behavioral injuries, these men and women demonstrate the power of ability over disability and the spirit of competition.

Since 2010, nearly 200 wounded, ill, or injuredservice members and Veterans have competed annually at the Warrior Games, a unique partnership between the Department of Defense and U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Military Program. Athletes compete in sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, swimming, cycling, track & field, archery & competitive shooting. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded to the athletes or team members place 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their events respectively.
Additionally the service that brings the most medals will receive the Chairman's Cup.
Warrior Games is about more than winning medals-it's about overcoming challenges to celebrate accomplishments. Each athlete competing tells a story of triumph, regardless of whether they stand on the podium.
Athletes can also compete for the title of Ultimate Champion. This is a Pentathlon-style format designed to pit warriors against each other in a variety of disciplines. Points are earned in each discipline, and the athlete collecting the most points is named Ultimate Champion.
Adaptive sports and reconditioning are linked to a variety of benefits for wounded, ill, or injured service members across all branches of the military:

• less stress
• reduced dependency on pain and depression medication
• fewer secondary medical conditions (i.e., diabetes, hypertension)
• higher achievement in education and employment
• increased independence
• increased self-confidence
• increased mobility

WFOT Website

It is worth checking out the World Federation of Occupational Therapy site.  They have a number of useful resources, including position statements, which relate to the concepts we are discussing.  Might help with the big pitcure.

Thanks James

An Opportunity for Dunedin Based Students

Link to the example we discussed in class around Occupational Deprivation

Car-park access at the Forsyth Barr Stadium is being reviewed following a communication breakdown which resulted in some disabled and wheelchair-bound ticket holders denied entry during the All Blacks test on Saturday.

Ricky James - Perserverance

For those who want to re-watch the class example we used.

Here's a link that explains the work of Grace O'Sullivan

An Interview with Grace is also contained in this program from One In Five on Sunday 20 December 2009 Highlighting Disabled victims of violence and abuse; and a warning not to write off people with dementia.

from One In Five on Sunday 4 November 2012 Carol Stiles is at the New Zealand Occupational Therapists conference to hear about the breadth of an OT's work and how they promote health and well being by helping people to take part in meaningful activities. Duration: 26′48″

from One In Five on Sunday 27 January 2013 South Africa-based occupational therapist Frank Kronenberg has founded Occupational Therapists without Borders in the hope the profession will become more socially responsive to the needs of communities around the world

In Plain English (playlist)

In Plain English (playlist)

In Plain English (playlist)