Over the course of this past semester, my eyes were finally opened to what and how leisure affects my everyday life. Although I had never given the concept of leisure any thought, it had always come to me naturally as I would simply spend my free time looking for new and exciting things to do growing up. Even though learning all of these new concepts of leisure associated different aspects of leisure to a definition, I am now able to finally explain exactly how the many aspects of leisure interact with our society and day to day lives. Before I had taken this course, I essentially had no idea what I was getting myself into. I knew what leisure was but hearing that there was a specific class dedicated to studying the concept of recreation, parks, and tourism was defiantly something I was excited to take as it was a step away from my major in health care administration. I am glad I was able to read through the course text as well as get a different point of view into the topics through the interesting course lectures as I was finally able to see exactly how leisure affects public planning, time management, and the motivation of employees. I couldn’t agree more that the concept of leisure is definitely something I will have to come across as my career takes me further into management. The first idea I which I had learned from a mentor is to always set goals in order to achieve anything in life. I always set goals in every aspect from school work, cleaning around the house, new
This report also covers the nature and characteristics of a given segment of the leisure or events industry, what economic impact towards society using PESTLE to specify these aspects and also what skills required of managers in the segment mention on this topic.
In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,
I became part of the AVID program in eighth grade, I had no clue what the program was about; most of the time we worked on subjects that we needed help on, learned how to be organized, and practiced public speaking by having small socratic seminars. In a way, the tactics that my eighth grade AVID teacher taught me helped me become successful for my college preparation it helped improve my grades in the classes that I was struggling in and pushed me to take challenging courses. In my sophomore, junior, and senior year of high school, I spent my time reviewing different schools around the state and out-of-the state browsing through the financial aid assistance, majors and minors, location, and diversity to choose from. Junior year was the best
I have been in AVID for 4 years now, currently in my fourth year, I first found out about AVID from my older brother and cousins. My first year in AVID was in seventh grade, they mostly helped us organize our binders to keep our school work from getting misplaced and helped us organize our notes Cornell notes style. When started AVID in high school it prepared me a lot more for college. Since freshman year AVID has helped me make sure I take all the necessary classes I need for college, like the A-G requirements. AVID makes sure we are involved with school clubs and/or sports to helping sign up for the ACT and SAT. Because of AVID I have learned to be more organized not only in school but also in my daily life. I have learned to keep a daily
As you are no doubt well aware, this entire project has been a labor of love for Matt and I. As a group we ran into one road block after another. If nothing else, this project has taught me that everything will not go smoothly, no matter how good the intensions and how to persevere in the face of adversity.
Leisure: This is a means to self-actualization because it allows people to have self-determined opportunities to expand themselves by successfully using their abilities to meet challenges. This stage is based on The Leisure Ability Model whereby they look at leisure alone as a means of therapeutic recreation. At this stage of the continuum, clients assume primary responsibility for their own health.
As I make my way on this journey that is my life, I realize that I have always believed in the fundamental worth of all humanity and my responsibility as a fellow human being to respect this premise and also to support individuals, as much as I am able, to help unearth it should this basic truth become hidden to them. This is a guiding principle for me and I believe that many of the constructs of the field of Therapeutic Recreation (TR) are congruent with this philosophy. Making the decision to obtain a Therapeutic Recreation Specialization (TRS) degree offered a theoretical rationale in which to further explore the concept of leisure, define my professional philosophy and an opportunity to reflect critically on the field which I have
Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).
For the purpose of this study the researcher will observe the leisure programs and take notes. The first part of this process will be taking note of observations, which includes where the activity takes place, who is running it, how many participants have shown up, and the level of participation. The researcher will note any differences in the environment from previous sessions as well in order to analyze what made participants engage more or less than previous sessions. Badenhorst (2008) suggests that the researcher should also take pictures or drawings of the room so long as the participants and leisure professional have given permission. This is to be better able to reflect on the situation when it comes time to analyze the data (Badenhorst, 2008). During this process the researcher needs to be as detailed as possible, were the participants smiling during the session? Were the participants socializing? What was being said during the socialization? Every participant in the room needs to be written about from the beginning of the session until the end of the session (Badenhorst, 2008). It is important to note if something happened that might impact their participation, for example, did they have a medical procedure that morning that affected their participation that afternoon? When taking notes the researcher needs
The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)
For this assignment I had the opportunity to interview Darcy Page and Brittney Stobbie on what exactly leisure means to them. Both Brittney and Darcy are juniors here at the University of Florida pursuing a degree in Recreation Tourism Event Management. When it comes to leisure, Darcy defines leisure as the time she spends doing things that help to relieve her stress. One of her biggest stress relievers is the gym because she loves the way she feels after a hard workout. Brittney describes leisure as free time to do the activities she enjoys. Both girls find leisure an important part of their lives and affiliate it with the feeling of happiness and being healthy. When it comes to leisurely activities Darcy enjoys reading, exercising, doing
As a student who guides herself and provides her own backbone to her aspirations, I would not have believed an academic program like AVID would have given me a significant support system that would direct me to the path of fundamental success. I discovered AVID through their recruitment event for incoming high school freshmen. I learned that the program aimed to help students achieve their goals of attending a four year university through mentoring and an enhanced education. Being a first generation student, I was interested in joining the program in seek of the benefits I could acquire to a quality education. When I joined the program, I learned that I gained more than what I had expected. AVID provided me with academic skills I needed to
For example, people who enjoy the Arts then become an artist like Pablo Picasso, Leonardo DaVinci, Claude Monte, Claude Mante, and Jan Van Eyck these artists have created some of the world most beautiful, extraordinary, and vibrant paintings that the world have or know to date. This example of the artists show that even leisure time can achieve success, even if the topics or ideas seem to be under minded by others saying it’s a waste of time and it should be spent on something more useful for society rather than relaxation. As for me, another individual whose philosophy is based on the foundation of education and work, I do believe that leisure can make someone successful but it all depends on the leisurely things he/she does in that time duration. Furthermore, the way to success can be showed in myriad of opportunities but one of the most common ways to become successful is the foundation of education
Also, this study was limited to the participants in the Midwest area, and was not sampled by a probability method, so its generalization of the results given should be made with extreme caution. However, what this study was able to prove is the idea that those who participate in the Senior Games in the Midwest area tend to participate in active sport tourism regularly. They also tend to portray healthier lifestyles and benefit through social rewards. Serious leisure itself is represented by six defining qualities: perseverance, significant effort, career development, durable benefits, expression of self and identity, and unique ethos. The sport tourism indicators used in this study would include significant effort, career development, and durable benefits. These indicators reflect the training hours, miles traveled, money spent, years of participation, and number of people involved with the participant. It might not be clear as to the relationship between serious leisure and sport tourism, but just to clear things up; a tourist is someone who has traveled at least 50 miles. The fact that they travel to enjoy a sport makes them a sport tourist. The average distance traveled by those who participated in the Senior Games is 115 miles. Since these individuals actually participated in the games, they participated in leisure. This study was done to show how many of those who participated are active on a regular basis, and this was done by conducting a survey of the participants. The results of the surveyed were able to prove the idea that the majority of those involved were more likely to live physically active lives that contribute to the sport tourism industry. These results will benefit people who are looking for ways to involve and reach out to those ages 65 and older, and
At the beginning of this course leisure was a topic I did not give much thought to and I felt like I did not have the time to spare to put much thought into. To me, all leisure meant was having free time to do whatever it is that I wanted to do. But after analyzing my life I noticed that I had surrounded my life with solely work and school and my “free time” was anytime I spent watching television and anytime I slept. However, after taking this course I learned that leisure meant more much than that. Now leisure to me means, as Richard Kraus states, leisure is “time which is not devoted to work or work-connected responsibilities or to other forms of discretionary or unobligated time,” (Olson et al., 2003, 12). The “time” in which Kraus