The Young Community

Due to the complex nature of occupational therapy, we can always argue that we are all engage in OT activities in one way or another. But the real issue in my opinion is not so much whether we are practicing OT or not, but rather how good we are at it.

The same can be said about communities of practice. Communities of practice are everywhere. They are in school and universities, in work and at home, in hospital and so on. Again the issue is not whether we belong to CoP or not, but on whether we are aware of their importance and the benefits they bring to the organisation.

CoP are about people. They normally develop around thing that matter to them. It is the realization of the importance of what they are doing that distinguishes one community from the others. In the case of the BEST CoP,it is a CoP for MOTA. We hope, it will translate into an organisational asset that can help shape the future of the profession as a whole. It belongs to all members. We request for crediantial mainly for organisational purposes. Best CoP is designed with differences. We already have huge portal to discuss openly around most subjects to cater for the current requirements.

Best CoP is going to be knowledge based driven activities. We improve and deepen our knowledge and expertise in OT by interacting on an ongoing basis.CoP is the best way to share knowledge and allowed the better transfer of tacit knowlwdge.

We have many experts within our community. Many types, latent experts, up and coming experts, expert syndrome and many more. What benefit that profession gain by having these people around ? Not very much I reckon if they are all venture individually. If we continue this trend the profession will suffer. We will be passing the struggle from generation to generation. This is what happening now. There is no different of struggle made by previous people compare to what we are facing now. I perceive the struggle will continue and continue till no end. CoP, the return what we invest is not immediate. It creates value for its individual members in many ways.....

I do hope more OTs coming forward to support. Let's do brilliant rock-busting. Start to re program our nervous system, reprogramming the way we think by changing our choice of words. We will get immediate noticeable different result.

Let's do while still have time.

The Young Thinker

MOTA would like to thank all moderators and contributors of the OT-MALAYSIA.ORG forum for their contribution. These activities certainly make our profession known and moves extra miles ahead. Please continue to pump in more materials and encourage participants from people around us.

In addition to this successful FORUM activities, MOTA has introduced another forum called "MOTA Thinker Group" . The objective of this forum is to gain input and act an avenue for exchange of explicit and tacit knowledge among OTs. Apart from that, it is indeed a recognition for the members to be in this group. MOTA hopes that this recognition will take members extra miles in persuing personal & profesion development.

This forum exclusively for OTs who like to share their knowledge, skill and practice toward the FUTURE development of the profesion. This is closed group, you have to be the member of ELITE GROUP in order to join this forum. Email your CV to MOTA for selection.

Let's start doing thing differently while still have time.