Kawa

Kawa

1. Water

   • life energy flow
   • has many cultural and symbolic meanings
   • self is influenced or shaped by the surrounding social context at a given time and place
   • state of well-being coincides with life flow

2. River Sides and River Floor

   • environment
   • physical context
   • social context

3. Rocks

   • impediments to life flow
   • life circumstances
     • problematic
     • vary in size and number
     • present at birth or acquired
     • short-term, chronic or transient
   • situated in environment

4. Driftwood

   • personal attributes and resources
     • values
     • character
     • personality
     • skill
     • immaterial
     • living situation
   • positive or negative
   • transient

5. Spaces

   • client's life energy still flows
   • potential for OT intervention