"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
-Henry David Thoreau  

Leisure
Leisure is good. More leisure is better. In fact, more leisure and less work would vastly improve the collective quality of life in our work-centric society. Embrace its awesome power: in the wrong hands, leisure can be a dangerous weapon used to sedate the masses. In the right hands, leisure has been responsible for many of the glories of civilization. That, and it's also a heck of a lot of fun!

Leisure Team Productions
Leisure Team Productions (LTP) was a media production company that was born from the need - no, the duty - to promote leisure in a positive light through a variety of media.

LTP came to life in 2002, founded by two unemployed former classmates over several rounds of cask-conditioned ales at the Black Horse London Pub in San Francisco (coincidentally, the site of their original corporate headquarters). Tired of misguided perceptions of unemployment and the national obsession with work, Leisure Team decided to join hands with other organizations and individuals who have found more balance in life, and to feature them in a deservedly flattering light. As a company Leisure Team wound operations down in 2007, but the authors continue to expound the virtues of leisure in their everyday lives.

To learn more about the Art of Leisure, see one of Leisure Team's books: Time Off! The Upside to Downtime or Time Off! The Leisure Guide to San Francisco.

The founders of leisure itself? Well, not quite. Dean LaTourrette and Kristine Enea were both born in the Bay Area and have lived in San Francisco for the past 20 years. Both worked in the technology industry during the dot com bubble and bust. They were successfully "unemployed" on and off from 2001 through 2007 pursuing entrepreneurial and creative interests and attempting to perfect the leisure lifestyle. They created Leisure Team Productions and began co-authoring the Time Off! book series during this time.

Dean LaTourrette
Dean has worked in marketing on and off for the past 20 years - "on" during periods of full-time employment with a variety of companies, and "off" during extended hiatuses to travel, surf and write. He has written for several publications, including Men's Journal, San Francisco Examiner, The Surfer's Journal, and The Surfer's Path. Dean swears that the idea for the Time Off! books came to him while he was sneaking a nap at work, which only reinforced his desire to quit his job and begin writing them. In addition to creating and co-authoring the Time Off! series, Dean managed the publishing efforts of Leisure Team Productions. After Leisure Team, Dean went on to run environmental nonprofit Save The Waves Coalition for five years, and now works as a marketing and business development consultant. He can be contacted directly at dean(at)leisureteam(dot)com.

Kristine Enea
Kristine used to negotiate deals for a large software company but she saw the light and decided to take off and travel. Her subsequent trek to Panama City, Panama, and back-by car-led to the expansion of her family in the amount of one dog and several cats. She is a film-fest junkie who has been known to deplete her bank account to make it to Telluride around Labor Day. In addition to co-founding Leisure Team Productions, Kristine co-authored and managed production of its first two book titles.

 

 
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