PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DISCOVERY THROUGH LEISURE W/ CD ROM

Recreation and Leisure the essential ingredients in personal growth and development!
Recreation and leisure aren't just play. You know that people make some of their most important personal discoveries during recreation and leisure. Now there's a book that will help your students understand the relationship of recreation and leisure and life's most important issues and experiences. Personal Development and Discovery Through Leisure, Second Edition by Ernest G. Olson is unique in its nature and design, and while there are other books that address similar subject matter, only this one is written in a fun and spirited format that will interest, inspire, and motivate your students to examine their own journey of personal discovery and it's relation to their leisure activities.

Personal Development and Discovery Through Leisure is enjoyable to read, yet it is pertinent and relevant to the life of the reader. It focuses on real issues such as love, wellness, work, aging, and stress ¿ critical issues that each of us face every day of our lives. Personal Development and Discovery Through Leisure looks at the management of those issues from the unique perspective of recreation and leisure studies. The book begins by offering the reader an introspective look at himself or herself through a collection of self-assessment scales known as the Leisure Profile Packet (LPP). In addition, each chapter contains worksheets and exercises that can be used to apply the principles discussed in the chapter. Personal Development and Discovery Through Leisure is intended to be fun ¿ many of the exercises are designed to elicit a playful response, and the content is laced with humor.