Because we can't stop screens from feeding us content that makes us think that a fragmented perspective is the only perspective
We show you how to use multiple perspectives to make small, subtle adjustments in how you connect, so you experience the whole as more than the sum of its parts. To embrace the full human experience. We are Gestalt sports trainers.
## Preventing Burnout on Your Journey to Success. Do something to avoid a fragmented perspective from becoming the only perspective. Avoid feelings of isolation and the emptiness that often accompanies fragmented thinking.
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When you think a fragmented perspective is the only perspective, several things happen that undermine both individual and collective brain health:
You lose access to the whole. If you can only see isolated parts—your role, your stats, your assigned task—you can't perceive how those parts fit into the cohesive system. This is what you'd call impairment: the inability to see key components and/or the inability to perceive the whole.
The team fragments. When players believe their narrow view is complete, they stop coordinating around the shared reality. Everyone optimizes their part, but the whole disintegrates. Under pressure, this shows up as predictable collapse—opponents can exploit the gaps because there's no sustained cohesion.
Ego fills the vacuum. Without perception of the whole, attention drifts to individual performance or supporting a star. Role players fade away from home because the spotlight isn't on them. The star gets neutralized because teammates aren't maintaining the whole—they're just feeding one part.
You can't self-correct. If you don't know the whole exists, you can't take time out to restore it. You keep executing your fragment, wondering why things aren't working, because you're missing the frame that would let you see what's actually broken.
Compliance becomes a trap. Maximum compliance with instructions to "stay in your role" or "do your job" can train you out of perceiving the whole. This serves short-term performance but leaves you without the capacity to sustain cohesion independently—or to maintain brain health after the structure is gone.
In your framework, this is the core problem: a fragmented perspective isn't a perspective—it's a reduction. A healthy typical brain holds both parts and whole. Training everyone to perceive the whole is what keeps the team from collapsing into isolated fragments.
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Older adults and adult beginners. Mixed. Basketball with Gestalt sports trainersWed 15 JulLoreto College, St Albans
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The core competency of Gestalt sports trainers is their ability to identify when someone has a fragmented perspective that is preventing them from embracing the whole. Training relies on accepting their judgment and acting on their instructions to step outside a fragmented perspective—that often centers on perfection—to see multiple perspectives to savor the whole as more than the sum of its parts.
Sports governing bodies inherently concentrate on the totality of their respective sports. However, when viewed through the lens of life, focusing on a single sport is a fragmented perspective. As such, we do not align ourselves with any one governing body; instead, we work alongside them all.
I hope you are well.
In the 1990s, I embarked on my career as a business analyst, focusing on identifying which aspects of social interaction could occur online and which could not. My efforts contributed to the development of some of the world's first global collaboration solutions. Upon realizing that my insights into social interaction could benefit autistic individuals, I decided to leave my corporate path behind.
With over 20 years of experience working with autistic and ADHD individuals, I've discovered that the diagnosis of autism and ADHD often stems from the belief that a fragmented perspective is the only perspective. I used basketball as a tool to engage the autistic brain, encouraging the recognition of multiple perspectives coexisting simultaneously and exploring the space between them to understand the whole human experience. As I implemented this approach, more neurotypical individuals began to join, revealing that they too were adopting a fragmented perspective, influenced by the information fed to them through their screens.
Now, I am channeling the skills I've developed to assist autistic individuals in experiencing the full spectrum of human existence, while also guiding neurotypical people living in a screen-dominated world to embrace the richness of the whole human experience.
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