ABSTRACT

On the activity level, the great proportion of everyday life can be conceptualized as being experienced in one of three domains: work, leisure, and nonwork obligation. The domain approach is a prism through which to view the institutional space of leisure. In its own special way it elaborates the institutional definition of leisure. Many of the new leisure activities can serve as a resource in leisure education. Part of the mandate of practitioners in this field is to familiarize clients and students with a range of personally accessible leisure activities and then encourage them to pursue those for which they have both taste and aptitude. New leisure can figure prominently in achieving an agreeable work/life balance. Agreeable obligation is very much a part of some leisure, evident when obligation accompanies positive commitment to an activity that evokes pleasant memories and expectations.