Today, we will discuss:

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Today, we will discuss

• 1. How much leisure time specific groups have
• 2. The amounts of leisure time available by
  gender
• 3. Define the terms leisure wellness, leisure
• education, recreation and play
• 4. Explain the leisure wellness continuum

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A survey of 1,000 people, demographically
representative of all Americans and published by
the National Recreation and Parks Association
(NRPA), estimated the leisure hours per week of
Americans as follows

• 1. Senior Citizen 43
• 2. Teenagers, singles, and childless couples
  37-41
• 3. Parents, children not living at home 31
• 4. Single parents 25
• 5. Parents, children living at home, only one
  spouse
• working full time 24
• 6. Dual career parents 23

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Free Time

• Women vs. Men
• Surveys show men have more free time each day
  because women are still doing most chores in
  dual-income households
• 2/3 of women polled say they do not have time to
  exercise (Health Magazine, CNN, November 7, 1999)

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Leisure Hours Daily
Source 1995 Survey by Leisure Trends magazine
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Percentage of Each Sex Who Do
Source 1992 Survey by the Families and Work
Institute
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Women Working (in millions)
Source Bureau of Labor and Statistics
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Pursuits of Americans

• Parker (1985) compiled annual figures and divided
  by 365 to determine what Americans do
  (collectively) on a typical day. According to
  Parker, on an average day, Americans
• 1. spend 700 million on recreation
  (8,000/second)
• 2. Buy 5 million books
• 3. Place 70 million quarters in arcade game
  machines
• 4. Buy 38 000 Ken and Barbi dolls and 5 000
  pieces of Barbie clothes
• 5. Snap 21 million photographs and
• 6. Jump out of airplanes at a rate of
  approximately 5,000 people per day

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From a health and wellness standpoint

• 1. Eat the equivalent of 2.250 cattle at
  McDonalds
• 2. Eat 3 million gallons of ice cream and 5,000
  tons of candy
• 3. Eat 75 acres worth of pizza, enough to fill 60
  football fields

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From an addiction standpoint

• 1. Drink enough bottles and cans of beer and ale
  to fill a baseball stadium 30 feet deep
• 2. Snort a bathtub of cocaine (325 pounds)
• 3. Smoke a bale of marijuana the size of a small
  house (85,000 pounds)
• 4. Drink 1.2 million gallons of hard liquor,
  enough to get 26 million people drunk
• Morals
• 1. Spend 40 million on prostitutes

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Chronicle of Higher Education (May 28,1999)
Colleges Report Increases in Arrests for Drug and
Alcohol Violations(Crimes on 483 Campuses with
more than 5,000 Students)

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1-yearIncidents 1997 1996
ChangeMurder 13
19 -31.6Forcible sex offenses 1,053 1,049
0.4Robbery 890 980 -9.2Burglary
13,947 15,171
-8.1Motor-Vehicle theft 3,957 4,356
-9.2ArrestsLiquor-law violations
17,624 17,019 3.6Drug-law violations
7,897 7,370 7.2Weapons-law violations
951 911 4.4Experts differ on whether
trends reflect tougher enforcement or more
substance abuse (p. A-39)
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• IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, IT COST BETWEEN
  500-600 A DAY TO KEEP ONE YOUNGSTER IN AN
  ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY OR BETWEEN
  182,000-219,000/ YEAR (Mendota MH, 1998).

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PARKS AND RECREATION...The Benefits are
Endless...TM

• Here are some examples from around the country of
  the ways parks, recreation and leisure programs
  are improving lives and communities ...

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Individual Benefits

• Improved Academic Performance
• In 1991, 75 of the children enrolled in the Fort
  Myers, Florida, STARS Program were making less
  than a C average in school. After the program,
  80 of the 1,500 children enrolled had brought
  their grades up to a C average or better.
  (Healing America's Cities- 1994)
• Health Benefits in Later Years
• Women can attain higher bone density through
  childhood participation in organized sports and
  fitness programs, thereby establishing a strong
  health base to combat osteoporosis in later
  years. (The Benefits of Parks and Recreation-A
  Catalogue 1992)

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Individual Benefits

• Improved Health Benefits Immediately
• A water aerobics program two times a week for 16
  weeks significantly reduced diastolic blood
  pressure, body fat and body weight in elderly
  community residents. (The Benefits of Parks and
  Recreation-A Catalogue 1992)
• Positive Changes in Self-Concept
• Significant and marked positive changes in
  self-concept were shown by sixth graders
  participating in 5-day camping programs. (The
  Benefits of Parks and Recreation-A Catalogue 1992)

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Community Benefits

• Reduced Incarceration Rates
• The US incarceration rate average is 426
  prisoners per 100,000 population. This is the
  highest of any country in the world. Britain's
  rate is 97 per 100,000. Minnesota started
  alternative programs in 1973 and now has an
  incarceration rate of 73 per 100,000. (Healing
  America's Cities-1994)
• Increased Community Pride
• In Philadelphia after police helped neighborhood
  volunteers clean up vacant lots and plant
  gardens, burglaries and thefts in the precinct
  dropped 90--from about 40 crimes each month
  before the cleanup to an average of only four per
  month. (Healing America's Cities-1994)

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Community Benefits

• Reduced Juvenile Crime
• In Fort Myers, Florida, juvenile arrests have
  dropped 28 since 1990 when the city began its
  STARS program for adolescents. Cost per
  participant-158.00 (Healing America's
  Cities-1994)
• In Phoenix during 1993-94, approximately 5,200
  youths were detained for curfew violations. The
  City Street Project since 1993 is a curfew
  program to reduce juvenile crime and violence.
  Police report that the curfew program has reduced
  juvenile nighttime criminal activity and violence
  with a 10.4 reduction in juvenile arrests during
  the first 11 months of the program. Cost /
  person-105.74 (Beyond Fun Games-1994)
• Cincinnati, Ohio initiated the Late Evening
  Recreation Programs in 1993. During the initial
  13 week period, the number of juvenile criminal
  incidents dropped 24 from 645 to 491. Cost per
  person-56. (Beyond Fun and Games-1994)

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Economic Benefits

• Property Values Increased
• In Salem, Oregon, urban land next to a green belt
  was worth 1,200 more per acre than urban land
  1,000 feet away. (Healing America's Cities-1994)
• Reduced Health Care Costs
• Steelcose Corporation showed that medical costs
  were 55 lower for fitness program participants
  than non-participants over a six year period, an
  average of 478 for participants vs. 870 for
  non-participants. (The Economic Benefits of
  Regular Exercise- 1992)

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Economic Benefits

• Increased Productivity
• Union Pacific Railroad found that 80 of its
  employees believed that their exercise programs
  were helping them be more productive at work.
  Seventy five percent thought that regular
  exercise was helping them achieve higher levels
  of relaxation and concentration at work. (The
  Economic Benefits of Regular Exercise-1992)
• Stimulus for Tourism
• Parks stimulate tourism activity nationwide. Two
  thirds of all visitors to Oregon stopped at a
  state park in 1993, generating an annual economic
  impact to the state estimated at 500 million.
  Oregon ranks 31st nationally in amount of state
  park land and comes in fourth nationally in park
  usage. (Oregon State Parks-1994)

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Environmental Benefits

• Pollution Controls
• Greenways which help conserve plants and trees
  provide a valuable contribution toward pollution
  control because they mitigate water, air and
  noise pollution. (National Park Service-1990)
• Preservation of Natural Habitat
• Without increased amount of natural habitat,
  forest lands, wetlands, cultural sites and
  recreation land, the continued degradation of
  habitat will continue which will undoubtedly load
  to additional Endangered Species Act listings,
  complete with public contention and economic
  disruption. (Creating a Conservation and
  Recreation Legacy-1994)

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Environmental Benefits

• Air, Water and Soil Quality
• According to a study conducted at the University
  of Calcutta, India, one tree's contribution over
  50 years in controlling air pollution, soil
  erosion, soil fertility, recycling water and
  humidity is worth a total of 196,250. (Oregon
  Department of Forestry-1994)
• Community Support for Improved Quality of Life
• In 1992, 64 percent of Los Angeles County voters
  approved Proposition A, the Safe Neighborhood
  Parks Act--a special property tax surcharge that
  provides 54O million to redesign old parks, buy
  land and build recreation facilities.

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LEISURE WELLNESS

• "THE MEASURE OF HOW WELL PREPARED
• YOU ARE TO TAKE WHAT YOU KNOW
• ABOUT LEISURE, AND DIRECTLY ASSUME
• AND MAINTAIN THE RESPONSIBILITY TO
• EXPERIENCE AN ENJOYABLE, HEALTHFUL,
• SATISFYING AND DYNAMIC LEISURE
• STYLE." (McDowell)

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LEISURE EDUCATION

• LIFE-LONG PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING
• AND CLARIFYING LEISURE VALUES,
• CHOICES AND GOALS.

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RECREATION

• WHOLESOME ACTIVITY, VOLUNTARILY ENGAGED
• IN, AND MOTIVATED BY SATISFACTION.
• 1. RECREATION IMPLIES RE-CREATION OR THE
• RESTORATION OF THE ABILITY TO
• FUNCTION.
• 2. IT GENERALLY REFERS TO MORE
• ORGANIZED ACTIVITY.
• 3. RECREATION IS TIME SPENT BETWEEN
• WORK, RE-CREATING

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PLAY

• PLAY IS SELF-EXPRESSION FOR ITS OWN
• SAKE, INCLUDING CHILDLIKE
• CHARACTERISTICS OF SPONTANEITY AND
• IMAGINATION

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The Wellness Process

• ASSESSMENT
• Taking Stock of Yourself and Your Life
• Deliberate and Conscious
• Where You Are and Where You Are Going
• INTERVENTION/NOURISHMENT
• Take Action
• Do Something Positive
• Nourish Current Behaviors
• REINFORCEMENT / MOTIVATION
• The "Pay Off"! Observable and Measurable Gains

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LEISURE WELLNESS CONTINUUM

• 1. REFLECTION WE NEED TO REFLECT ON THE
• IMPACT THAT LEISURE HAS HAD IN OUR LIVES.
• 2. RECOGNITION WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE OUR
• OWN NEEDS POTENTIAL LEISURE RESOURCES
• POSSIBLE BARRIERS TO LEISURE FULFILLMENT.
• 3. REAFFIRMATION WE NEED TO
• CONTINUOUSLY REAFFIRM THE IMPORTANCE OF
• LEISURE AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE.

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Another Check Mark On The List

• One rainy afternoon an inspired 15-year-old boy
  named John Goddard sat down at his kitchen table
  in Los Angeles and wrote three words at the top
  of a yellow pad, "My Life List" Under that
  heading he wrote down 127 goals. Since then he
  has completed 108 of those goals. Look at the
  list of Goddard's goals which appears below.
  These are not simple or easy goals. They include
  climbing the world's major mountains, exploring
  vast waterways, running a mile in five minutes,
  reading the complete works of Shakespeare and
  reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Explore

• 1. Nile River
• 2. Amazon River
• 3. Congo River
• 4. Colorado River
• 5. Yangtze River, China
• 6. Niger River
• 7. Orinoco River, Venezuela
• 8. Rio Coco, Nicaragua

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Study Primitive Cultures In

• 9. The Congo
• l0. New Guinea
• 11. Brazil
• 12. Borneo
• 13. The Sudan (John was nearly
• buried alive in a sandstorm.)
• 14. Australia
• 15. Kenya
• 16. The Philippines
• 17. Tanganyika (now Tanzania)
• 18. Ethiopia
• 19. Nigeria
• 20. Alaska

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Climb

• 21. Mount Everest
• 22. Mount Aconcagua, Argentina
• 23. Mount McKinley
• 24. Mount Huascaran, Peru
• 25. Mount Kilimanjaro
• 26. Mount Ararat, Turkey
• 27. Mount Kenya
• 28. Mount Cook, New Zealand
• 29. Mount Popocatelpetl, Mexico
• 30. The Matterhorn
• 31. Mount Rainer
• 32. Mount Fuji
• 33. Mount Vesuvius
• 34. Mount Bromo, Java
• 35. Grand Tetons
• 36. Mount Baldy, California

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To Do

• 37. Carryout careers in medicine and
  exploration (Studied Pre-med and treats
  illnesses among primitive tribes)
• 38. Visit every country in the world (30 to
• go)
• 39. Study Navaho and Hopi Indians
• 40. Learn to fly a plane
• 41. Ride horse in Rose Parade

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Photograph

• 42. Iguacu Falls, Brazil
• 43. Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (Chased by a
  warthog in the process)
• 44. Sutherland Falls, New Zealand
• 45. Yosemite Falls
• 46. Niagara Falls
• 47. Retrace travels of Marco Polo and Alexander
  the Great

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Explore Underwater

• 48. Coral Reefs of Florida
• 49. Great Barrier Reef, Australia
  (photographed a 300 pound clam)
• 50. Red Sea
• 51. Fiji Islands
• 52. The Bahamas
• 53. Explore Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades

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Visit

• 54. North and South Poles
• 55. Great Wall of China
• 56. Panama and Suez Canals
• 57. Easter Island
• 58. The Galapagos Islands
• 59. Vatican City (Saw the Pope)
• 60. The Taj Mahal
• 61. The Eiffel Tower
• 62. The Blue Grotto
• 63. The Tower of London
• 64. The Leaning tower of Pisa
• 65. The Sacred Well of Chicken-Itza, Mexico
• 66. Climb Ayers Rock in Australia
• 67. Follow River Jordan from Sea of Galilee to
  Dead Sea

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Swim In

• 68. Lake Victoria
• 69. Lake Superior
• 70. Lake Tanganyika
• 71. Lake Titicaca, South America
• 72. Lake Nicaragua

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Accomplish

• 73. Become an Eagle Scout
• 74. Dive in a submarine
• 75. Land on and take off from an aircraft carrier
• 76. Fly in a blimp, hot air balloon and glider
• 77. Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco
• 78. Skin dive to 40 feet and hold breath two and
  a half minutes underwater
• 79. Catch a ten-pound lobster and a ten-inch
  abalone
• 80. Play flute and violin
• 81. Type 50 words a minute
• 82. Take a parachute jump
• 83. Learn water and snow skiing
• 84. Go on a church mission
• 85. Follow the John Muir Trail

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• 86. Study native medicines and bring back useful
  ones
• 87. Bag camera trophies of elephant, lion, rhino,
  cheetah, cape buffalo and whale
• 88. Learn to fence
• 89. Learn jujitsu
• 90. Teach a college course
• 91. Watch a cremation ceremony in Bali
• 92. Explore depths of the sea
• 93. Appear in a Tarzan movie (He now considers
  this an irrelevant boyhood dream)
• 94. Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot
  and coyote (Yet to own a chimp or cheetah)
• 95. Become a ham radio operator
• 96. Build own telescope
• 97. Write a book (On Nile trip)
• 98. Publish an article in National Geographic
  Magazine
• 99. High jump five feet

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• 100. Broad jump 15 feet
• 101. Run a mile in five minutes
• 102. Weigh 175 pounds stripped (still does)
• 103. Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups
• 104. Learn French, Spanish and Arabic
• 105. Study dragon lizards on Komodo Island (Boat
  broke down within 20 miles of island)
• 106. Visit birthplace of Grandfather Sorenson
  in Denmark
• 107. Visit birthplace of Grandfather Goddard in
  England
• 108. Ship aboard a freighter as a seaman
• 109. Read the entire Encyclopedia Britiannica
  (Has read extensive parts in each volume)
• ll0. Read the Bible from cover to cover
• lll. Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato,
  Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Poe, Rousseau,
  Bacon, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Conrad,
  Talmage, Toistoi,Longfellow, Keats, Whittier and
  Emerson (Not every work of each)

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• 112. Become familiar with the compositions of
  Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Ibert, Mendelssohn,
  Lalo, Rirnski- Korsakov, Verdi, Respighi, Liszt,
  Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Toch, Tschaikovsky
• 113. Become proficient in the use of a plane,
  motorcycle, tractor, surfboard, rifle, pistol,
  canoe, microscope, football, basketball, bow
  and arrow, lariat boomerang
• 114. Compose music
• 115. Play Clair de Lune on the piano
• 116. Watch fire-walking ceremony (in Bali and
  Surinam)
• 117. Milk a poisonous snake (Bitten by a diamond
  back during a photo session)
• 118. Light a match with a 22 rifle
• 119. Visit a movie studio
• 120. Climb Cheops'pyramid

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• 121. Become a member of the Explorers'Club and
  the Adventurers' Club
• 122. Learn to play polo
• 123. Travel through the Grand Canyon on foot
  and by boat
• 124. Circumnavigate the globe (four times)
• 125. Visit the moon ("Someday if God wills)
• 126. Marry and have children (Has five
  children)
• 127. Live to see the 21st Century (He will be
  75)
• John Goddard (Chicken Soup for the Soul)