OT Practice in Building Better Routines
Workshop Duration: 1.5 hours
Cost: $90.00
Do you have clients who feel stuck, disengaged or overwhelmed by daily routines?
Finding it hard to set up grounded and long-lasting routine based interventions?
This workshop equips OTs with practical frameworks and evidence based strategies to build routines that enable participation and sustained change.
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Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm AEST
Duration: 1.5 hours
What will you learn?
In this workshop, you will gain practical knowledge and tools to:
- Explore the meaning of habits, routines and occupational balance within psychosocial disability
- Understand why routine disruption commonly occurs and what drives disengagement and inertia
- Apply structured routine and activity analysis to identify barriers and strengths
- Use evidence based approaches including MOHO, Remotivation, Action Over Inertia, Motivational Interviewing and behavioural activation
- Design graded, achievable routine based interventions that reduce cognitive load
- Integrate accessible and low cost assistive technology to support routine development
- Tailor interventions to motivation, mood, cognition and environmental context
- Translate routine focused interventions into NDIS aligned capacity building supports
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed for Occupational Therapists who support NDIS participants with psychosocial disability, ADHD or mental health related functional challenges. It will be particularly useful for:
- OTs providing capacity building and therapeutic supports under Improved Daily Living
- Community and home based OTs addressing disrupted routines and low engagement
- OTs seeking to rebalance assessment heavy roles with meaningful intervention
Why attend?
In this workshop, you will:
- Strengthen your confidence delivering routine based interventions
- Learn structured yet flexible approaches that respect client choice and readiness
- Gain practical tools you can apply immediately in everyday practice
- Build clearer clinical reasoning to justify routine focused supports under the NDIS
What's included?
- Gain online access to the workshop – live workshops are delivered via Zoom, while self-paced options include access to recorded sessions
- Download workshop slides and any resources provided by the presenter
- Enjoy six months of access to the recording and resources via your Verve OT Learning Library
- Receive a certificate of completion for your CPD records, available via email upon completion of the workshop
About the Presenter
Muriel Cummins is an Occupational Therapist with extensive experience across mental health and disability practice. In addition to being an OT, she holds a Master of Public Health. She has worked in clinical, not-for-profit, peak-body and private-practice settings.
A tireless advocate for an equitable, best-practice NDIS, Muriel sits on the Every Australian Counts steering Committee; on both NDIS and mental health Occupational Therapy Australia National Reference Groups; the Transforming Australia's Mental Health Service System (TAMHSS) committee; and the ICF-Australia Interest Group which explores the application of international frameworks in the Australian context.
Muriel co-founded the Occupational Therapy Society for Invisible and Hidden Disability (OTSi) and works to build this dynamic organisation.
She holds the Policy and Strategy Advisory role with the Australian Rehabilition and Assistive Technology Association (ARATA).
Her leadership was recognised when she received the Australian Allied Health Awards – Occupational Therapist of the Year (2022).
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"Was really helpful to gain more knowledge on intervention strategies to implement in my practice as an OT!"
Emily R, Occupational Therapist
"Great workshop. Covered all requirements to implement learnings directly into practice now. Reasoning, Assessment and interventions. Awesome job."
Kelly-Anne F, Occupational Therapist
