Alison Link has heard, "What leisure life?" too often. It's how people often respond when she asks how their leisure life is going. Seeing the impact that leisure or the lack of it can have on people and on community well-being, she created The Leisure Link, Inc. (TLL).
The Leisure Link provides leisure-related coaching, education, training and counseling services to enhance quality of life and community living.
When individuals have more satisfying leisure, it has a positive ripple effect that reaches into other aspects of their life and other people's lives. Leisure is TLL's entry point to helping people and communities achieve well-being.
The Leisure Link helps people create fulfilling leisure lives through facilitating their process of achieving a leisure life in which:
- They are actively engaged,
- Their greatest skills and strengths are put to use and
- They find revitalization and a sense of meaning.
TLL helps people plan their leisure lives as they plan other aspects of their lives. Leisure can be experienced every day, even if we only have five minutes. Even small amounts can turn "surviving" into "living." TLL guides people in experiencing more leisure, making time for leisure and in overcoming their "barriers to leisure." Barriers may be external factors like the demands of work, social environment and family responsibilities or internal factors like guilt or uncertainty.
We assist our clients in choosing experiences and leisure activities that reflect what they value most and offer them the greatest satisfaction, and help them make those activities a part of their lives.
We do it by working directly with individuals, couples and groups, and also by working with employers, government and not-for-profit agencies and organizations who may find themselves addressing leisure time issues with their employees and clientele. Through interactive workshops, probing conversations, and self-reflective activities, clients engage in their own process of enhancing the leisure in their lives.
