Women's Health Interest Group - 21 MAY 26
The Women's Health Interest Group invites you to their May meeting.
Program Overview
This is a free, member only session. This meeting will not be recorded.
Please join the Women's Health Interest Group Community via OTA Connect here before registering.
MEETING DETAILS
TOPICS:
Through the Looking Glass: Calibration, Identity, and a different lens to view Women’s Occupational Lives
At the 2025 National Occupational Therapy Conference in Adelaide, Sian Griffiths and Mary Butler presented an abstract titled Adventures in Calibration: Occupational Therapy in Wonderland. Their work explores the under-examined concept of calibration using Alice in Wonderland as a reflective framework to understand changes in occupational participation and self-identity.
In the field of women’s health, we regularly draw social/cultural/political aspects of the environment and its implicit expectations to understand how people adapt (or calibrate!) to new roles and seasons of life. The concept of calibration adds a new dimension of understanding to what we are often supporting our clients to navigate. In this session, Sian and Mary will be sharing the concept of calibration and then provide opportunities to discuss how occupational therapists can use this concept to support participation and adaptation during significant life changes from a women’s health lens.
Griffiths, S., & Butler, M. (2025). Adventures in calibration: Occupational therapy in wonderland. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 72(Suppl. 1), Article 537. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1630.70022
PRESENTERS:
Sian Griffiths and Mary Butler
DATE:
Thursday 21 May 2026
TIME:
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | AEST NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS, QLD
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | SA, NT
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | WA
MEETING PLATFORM:
This session will be run on the Zoom Webinar Platform. Registrants will be sent separate login details one business day prior to the session. Please check all email folders for this information. This meeting will not be recorded.
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REGISTRATION FEES & INFORMATION
OTA Member: Free
If you are a non member who wishes to attend please contact us to discuss your options.
Registrations close Tuesday 19 May 2026 11.59pm AEDT
MEETING DOCUMENTS & RESOURCES
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DISCLAIMER
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Presented By
Sian Griffiths
Presenter
Sian Griffiths is a Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy whose career has been rooted entirely in the profession. A Welsh girl by birth, she qualified in Liverpool and has worked across clinical practice in the NHS and community settings, management, private practice, and over three decades as an academic in Edinburgh and Dunedin. Her work is driven by a longstanding interest in occupational therapy reasoning, particularly how occupational therapists decide what to do, for whom, and why. Sian is passionate about occupational therapy as a values-based profession, grounded in real lives and everyday occupations. Outside work, she is a mum, a grandma, and is continually renovating her home — sometimes by choice, sometimes not.
Mary Butler
Presenter
Mary Butler, is a professor of occupational therapy (Adelaide University and Otago Polytechnic). She recently retired and is recovering from 35 years as an academic. She has loved, and been guided by, a non dualistic approach to the therapeutic use of occupation; which has served her well and continues to be endlessly enchanting. This approach has been informed by a long conversation about the ethics of care that has sustained her through relationships with three sons, many dear companion animals, wonderful students and the occasional client.