Becoming-shaman, becoming-Sherpa, becoming-healer: leisure as becoming (original) (raw)

This article highlights the lived leisure experiences of three artists’ engagement with songwriting. Leveraging post-intentional phenomenology alongside other theoretical and philosophical traditions, the songwriters’ experiences are discussed as a becoming shaman, a becoming-Sherpa and a becoming-healer. Each songwriter forwarded self generated concepts, which are used to illustrate their processes. These experiences are then brought into conversation with leisure theory, in which the authors contend for leisure as a site rife with potential for shifts in identity. Ultimately, this article demonstrates through these songwriters’ experiences of becoming-otherwise a momentary and modest solution to the problem of how to dwell, here and now, in a world that is often inhospitable and hostile.