Saturday, October 23
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
CSU East Bay Parking Lot H
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd.
Hayward, CA
In cooperation with the CSUEB Department of Hospitality, Recreation & Tourism and CPRS District 3
Calling all recreation/leisure students, professionals and enthusiasts– Grab your friends and come on out for the first ever Terra Otium (Latin for Earth Leisure) Car Rally. This rally is a hunt to find various park & recreation attractions and locations around the CSUEB Hayward Hills campus. Teams of up to three people must use clues to find the checkpoints within a specified time limit. Each team must have a digital camera or camera phone and vehicle to make their way around the Hayward area and document each checkpoint in the rally.
At the end of the rally, we’ll meet at Bronco Billy’s Pizza above campus to check team results and celebrate with prizes and pizza. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow students as well as network with outstanding recreation professionals.
Cost: $5 entry fee person for prizes and food.
Questions: call Dr. Chris Chamberlain at (510) 885-2101 or email at chris.chamberlain@csueastbay.edu.
The Planet is our Playground!
Built Environment with New Eyes
It doesn’t take a journey around the world to open your eyes. It does however take a willingness to want to see the world through “different eyes.” Take a stroll outside and look at the neighborhood with a fresh intent; that intent being one of inquisitiveness. Look at the ordinary. Find the extraordinary. A simple discovery can stem from fences and their use of “line design.” Your neighborhood is a canvas and the artist’s tools of pattern, shape, size, texture, and color all play upon the senses. Here are a few illustrations from a recent walk…………
It's recreation. It's "re-creation." It's a walk with open eyes, different eyes.
Enjoy your neighborhood and see what you've been missing.
Cheers
It's recreation. It's "re-creation." It's a walk with open eyes, different eyes.
Enjoy your neighborhood and see what you've been missing.
Cheers
Communication Packages
Are you looking for an exercise to help your staff become better communicators? We have a fun, creative, and introspective exercise that prompts participants to embrace communication. The experience builds upon written and verbal skills.
The Task: Sell yourself as a toy or a game
The Package: Create the word imagery that best describes your recreation & leisure lifestyle
Meet the Team: Collect all the descriptions. Redistribute them so everyone has someone else’s package. Have each team member share the package description with the group. Have the group try to identify the original author.
The exercise encourages each participant to recognize the following:
1. the power of “wordscapes”
2. a greater appreciation of projecting oneself
3. an understanding that communication often builds upon word imagery
4. the simple fact that “words count”
It also promotes the group to communicate as a team to analyze prospective choices.
Use this experience as a springboard. Create your own variations on the theme. It’s been a positive tool for us and hopefully you’ll find it to be the same.
Cheers!
The Task: Sell yourself as a toy or a game
The Package: Create the word imagery that best describes your recreation & leisure lifestyle
Meet the Team: Collect all the descriptions. Redistribute them so everyone has someone else’s package. Have each team member share the package description with the group. Have the group try to identify the original author.
The exercise encourages each participant to recognize the following:
1. the power of “wordscapes”
2. a greater appreciation of projecting oneself
3. an understanding that communication often builds upon word imagery
4. the simple fact that “words count”
It also promotes the group to communicate as a team to analyze prospective choices.
Use this experience as a springboard. Create your own variations on the theme. It’s been a positive tool for us and hopefully you’ll find it to be the same.
Cheers!
My take on Jake (and Rocket)- Entry #2
A popular line of clothing has the slogan, “Life is good”. I have several of their hats and shirts and recently picked up their book, “Life is good: Simple words from Jake and Rocket”. Being a Jake and Rocket fan, I thought I’d share my thoughts on their simple words from time to time in an effort to further the quality use of our leisure time. So here is another…
Whatever you are, be a good one.
I once attended a private holiday party at the Blackhawk Auto Museum hosted by a house developer that my wife’s office worked with. It was a glitzy affair- lot’s of big wigs, attorney’s and their spouses. As a recreation guy, I clearly did not fit in. As my wife was swept away in some high end cocktail deal making meeting, I wandered the museum entertaining myself. Every so often, I’d be staring at a fancy car and a couple would ask who I worked for or what I did. My answer was always the same- “I work for the recreation department” and their response was always the same too, “Oh”, and they’d walk away. At first I was offended by their comments and thought that maybe I shouldn’t have come to the party in the first place. But after a few times, I learned to be okay with it as I knew I was being authentic and proud in who I was- the hell with them, I thought. But, later on I still thought twice about applying for law school so maybe I could drive that expensive car, wear the expensive clothes, or live in that mansion like many others attending the party. I even went so far as to take the law school entry exam but then thought about who I really was and what I really enjoy doing. What was I thinking? Thankfully I came back to my real self.
We all have big dreams when we are young- to become an astronaut, own a company, make a million dollars, or even be the President. For some perhaps those dreams can come true. For others, reality is different and we end up doing something else- hopefully something you’d really enjoy, but whatever it is, Jake and Rocket have it right- be a good one. Excel in your chosen profession or job, regardless of what it is. Excel in your personal life and live with no regrets- be the best friend, spouse, parent and human being you can be.
I keep a book of notes and quotes I come across in my travels and found this one which seems appropriate for this discussion: Don’t worry about making a difference, just take responsibility for making a contribution. But I’d add, whatever it is, make it a good one!
Live Well- Chris
A popular line of clothing has the slogan, “Life is good”. I have several of their hats and shirts and recently picked up their book, “Life is good: Simple words from Jake and Rocket”. Being a Jake and Rocket fan, I thought I’d share my thoughts on their simple words from time to time in an effort to further the quality use of our leisure time. So here is another…
Whatever you are, be a good one.
I once attended a private holiday party at the Blackhawk Auto Museum hosted by a house developer that my wife’s office worked with. It was a glitzy affair- lot’s of big wigs, attorney’s and their spouses. As a recreation guy, I clearly did not fit in. As my wife was swept away in some high end cocktail deal making meeting, I wandered the museum entertaining myself. Every so often, I’d be staring at a fancy car and a couple would ask who I worked for or what I did. My answer was always the same- “I work for the recreation department” and their response was always the same too, “Oh”, and they’d walk away. At first I was offended by their comments and thought that maybe I shouldn’t have come to the party in the first place. But after a few times, I learned to be okay with it as I knew I was being authentic and proud in who I was- the hell with them, I thought. But, later on I still thought twice about applying for law school so maybe I could drive that expensive car, wear the expensive clothes, or live in that mansion like many others attending the party. I even went so far as to take the law school entry exam but then thought about who I really was and what I really enjoy doing. What was I thinking? Thankfully I came back to my real self.
We all have big dreams when we are young- to become an astronaut, own a company, make a million dollars, or even be the President. For some perhaps those dreams can come true. For others, reality is different and we end up doing something else- hopefully something you’d really enjoy, but whatever it is, Jake and Rocket have it right- be a good one. Excel in your chosen profession or job, regardless of what it is. Excel in your personal life and live with no regrets- be the best friend, spouse, parent and human being you can be.
I keep a book of notes and quotes I come across in my travels and found this one which seems appropriate for this discussion: Don’t worry about making a difference, just take responsibility for making a contribution. But I’d add, whatever it is, make it a good one!
Live Well- Chris
My take on Jake (and Rocket)- January 17, 2010
A popular line of clothing has the slogan, “Life is good”. I have several of their hats and shirts and recently picked up their book, “Life is good: Simple words from Jake and Rocket”. The artwork that adorns the clothing typically includes a stick figure guy, named Jake, and his faithful companion- a yellow labrador named Rocket, involved in a variety of activities that embody the “life is good” slogan. Being a Jake and Rocket fan, I thought I’d share my thoughts on their simple words from time to time in an effort to further the quality use of our leisure time. So here it goes…
Not all who wander are lost
Are you a wanderer? I am. There is nothing better than to grab my camera and maybe my dogs Duke and Ranger and head off on a hike. I usually know where I’m going but will sometimes let the dogs guide me on the adventure of the day. Probably one of my favorite activities is to find a rock, or a quiet meadow, pull up a stump to sit on and just be. I think we spend so much of our daily existence in the act of human doing that we forget to just sit and practice human being.
I have a colleague that I went through the doctoral program with-Vincent- he was a wanderer. He’d walk in circles during some of our work/study sessions, chewing on problems we were working on in his head. We learned to let Vincent go wander around for a while, knowing he’d come back when he’d figured out a solution to offer to the group. Vincent would also chew on his words when presenting his ideas, as if he mouth was out of sync with his brain that seemed to be working at light speed. We’d joke that Vincent was a professional wanderer but he was never lost. He wandered with a purpose and I think there’s something instructive about that.
We've all known or seen people that just seem to wander aimlessly, with no clear sense of direction about where they are going or what they're experiencing- they appear lost. That said, I think that’s the point- to be fully engaged in the activity, whatever it is, and let it take you for a ride wherever it goes. You’re not lost, you’re just present. Try it and let yourself go... wander on…
Live Well,
Chris
Not all who wander are lost
Are you a wanderer? I am. There is nothing better than to grab my camera and maybe my dogs Duke and Ranger and head off on a hike. I usually know where I’m going but will sometimes let the dogs guide me on the adventure of the day. Probably one of my favorite activities is to find a rock, or a quiet meadow, pull up a stump to sit on and just be. I think we spend so much of our daily existence in the act of human doing that we forget to just sit and practice human being.
I have a colleague that I went through the doctoral program with-Vincent- he was a wanderer. He’d walk in circles during some of our work/study sessions, chewing on problems we were working on in his head. We learned to let Vincent go wander around for a while, knowing he’d come back when he’d figured out a solution to offer to the group. Vincent would also chew on his words when presenting his ideas, as if he mouth was out of sync with his brain that seemed to be working at light speed. We’d joke that Vincent was a professional wanderer but he was never lost. He wandered with a purpose and I think there’s something instructive about that.
We've all known or seen people that just seem to wander aimlessly, with no clear sense of direction about where they are going or what they're experiencing- they appear lost. That said, I think that’s the point- to be fully engaged in the activity, whatever it is, and let it take you for a ride wherever it goes. You’re not lost, you’re just present. Try it and let yourself go... wander on…
Live Well,
Chris
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