To act in front of the stories: Narrative interpretation as a resource to move from what to how

The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources narrative interpretation are relevant some the key tensions challenges facing study human occupation related practices today; between an individual a social framing occupation, identifying discrete elements versus processual how occupations unfold work, finally focusing success acknowledging vulnerability as resource. Drawing Ricoeur’s notion threefold mimetic process involving material, emplotment, communication, suggestions offered narrative-in-action approach illuminates processes agency change in people’s can be shaped revised.