Abstract
The keynote presentation at the 24th Japanese Society of Occupation Symposium explored how the knowing of occupational experiences provides a view into the complexity of occupation, which can become a gateway to well-being. In this paper, I argue how knowing occupational experiences, or exploring the subjective perspective of occupation can: 1)support occupational scientists' understanding of the relationship between occupation and well-being, and 2)assist occupational scientists to enable others to discover how occupation contributes to or influences one's well-being. I begin by defining and describing occupational experience and well-being and their intersection from my own research, experiences and other scholarly work. Next, I introduce the Occu- pational Experience Profile(OEP), a quantitative assessment of occupational experience. Then I illustrate its value to 1)assess what people do and experience in close temporal proximity and 2)promote users' awareness of the relationship between occupational experiences and well-being. The presentation concludes with several examples to illustrate how expansion of quantitative assessments of occupational experience may continue to enable occupational scientists to uncover the relationship between occupation and well-being of individuals and populations.
https://ror.org/03k1gpj17 
