ABSTRACT
Instead of associating leisure with time one must appreciate leisure as an experience an ultimate goal of life which one strives for through meaningful behaviours. Recreation agencies in Ontario are beginning to take responsibility for developing professional training resources on education for leisure and for co-ordinating training sessions on the topic. This chapter discusses stress skill instruction, and emphasizes the beliefs and values that are necessary to encourage people to act on and take responsibility for finding leisure. Schools and governmental and leisure service agencies have lagged behind in exploring the most effective methods of educating for leisure. This presents a leisure society with a social network that is not sufficiently prepared to meet this challenge. Values clarification is an important part of leisure education and is not too 'intellectual' for even the youngest child. Asking children what they like and dislike; what is important to them; and what they need to feel happy is the basis of values clarification.
