Equipment: Pencil, paper, timer, and leisure categories
FOCUS AREA: Benefits of Leisure
Description: Break the group into 2 to 3 groups. Begin the game of Leisure Lists. This game is reminiscent of "Scattegories."
A topic will be named and participants are given one minute to list as many things as possible. After each round, chose a group to read their list first. If another team has the same item on their list, that item is crossed off on everyone's list. If no one else has the same item, then the team gets one point. After team one has finished reading their list, the next team(s) read their list. The team with the most listed items wins the round.
Give the groups one minute to make each list.
1.
List your favorite leisure/recreation activities
2.
List positive benefits you obtain from participating in leisure
you like
3.
List lessons you have learned from participating in
leisure/recreation
4.
List places you can participate in leisure/recreation
5.
List Olympic Sports
6.
List things you take on a picnic
7.
List things related to football
8.
List names of dances
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Begin discussion on favorite activities. What makes an activity
enjoyable? Further discuss the positive benefits of preferred leisure.
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(Optional): Relate the theory of Flow by Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi.
Following discussion, Complete the activity with feedback from participants on what choices they might make when feeling depressed, bored, etc. and tie it in with the benefits they listed earlier.
EXPECTED OUTCOME: Participants will better understand how engagement in preferred activities can positively affect their feelings, moods, and thoughts.
Csikszentmihalyi
(1993: 178-9) defined eight dimensions of the flow experience:
The
8 dimensions
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Clear goals and immediate feedback
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Equilibrium between the level of
challenge and personal skill
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Merging of action and awareness
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Focused concentration
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Sense of potential control
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Loss of self-consciousness
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Time distortion
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Autotelic or self-rewarding
experience
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