The value and meaning in occupations (ValMO) model was developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The model strives to capture and explain the rich diversity of our daily occupations, focusing on their value and meaning. Understanding the dimensions of occupation enables using the power embedded in occupation for health, while highlighting how occupations or lack of occupations can threaten health and well-being. Central to reasoning in the ValMO model is discriminating between a generally named activity and a unique occupation. Included are also the elements of time perspectives and experience. Placing the ‘doing’ in a time perspective makes it possible to understand how our occupations are shaped, developed, and interconnected over time. There is also a focus on the experiential perspective, where individuals’ subjective experiences and feelings during the ‘doing’ become essential. In this way, the ‘doing’ becomes not just a series of actions but a wealth of meanings and possibilities, where each action is deeply rooted in the unique combination of individual, place, and time. In response to the growing global challenges that individuals face in their everyday lives, there has been a recent inclusion in the model of an ecoethical sustainability perspective on human actions. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Moses N. Ikiugu, Steven D. Taff, Sarah Kantartzis and Nick Pollard; individual chapters, the contributors.