As Gestalt sports trainers, we train to regain the perception of the whole that can be overlooked when focusing solely on individual components.
Gestalt essentially describes what a healthy brain does.
Just as a healthy body can achieve more, the same is true for a healthy brain. While a healthy body may still experience injuries and illnesses, it tends to recover more swiftly. This principle is equally applicable to a healthy brain.
recognizing the individual parts it is familiar with and understanding the connections between those parts to form a cohesive perception of the whole.
A healthy brain sustains the cohesive whole. It does this by interpreting the world through two distinct perspectives:
We move parts to reshape the whole, creating new opportunities as current ones fade. In this way, the whole transcends algorithms. It continually generates something greater than the sum of its parts. It embodies the principles of Gestalt—what is beautiful, true, and good—the essence of the full human experience.
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# What Prevents Us from Sustaining a Healthy Brain
Although every part is essential—since a whole cannot exist without them—focusing on individual parts diminishes the brain's capacity to understand the whole. Lacking this holistic perspective leads us to piece together familiar parts in an algorithmic fashion, much like artificial intelligence. We should not overlook the importance of the whole; therefore, it is essential to restore brain health lost by focusing solely on individual parts. Engaging in activities that enhance the perception of the whole is vital for this restoration.
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Adult beginners + older players (2)
Wed 24 Jan
|Loreto College
We mainly use basketball to coach space, time, and timing. For those Wow moments. Players lift their perception of space, time, and timing to a level beyond what is possible with sports coaching alone. And achieve performance that is a lot higher than their individual attributes and skills allow.
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24 Jan 2024, 18:00 – 25 Jan 2024, 19:00
Loreto College, Loreto College, AL1 3RQ
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We mainly use basketball to coach space, time, and timing. For those Wow moments. Players lift their perception of space, time, and timing to a level beyond what is possible with sports coaching alone. And achieve performance that is a lot higher than their individual attributes and skills allow.
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We mainly coach space, time, and timing using a version of basketball where the importance of technique, speed and strength is turned down and the importance of space, time, and timing - is turned up. The skills are very transferable to other sports as well as normal basketball. To life in general.
Click here to learn how games coaching takes space, time, and timing beyond where just sports coaching can go.
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6 to 7pm. Loreto College, St Albans, Hatfield Road, St Albans Hertfordshire AL1 3RQ - The entrance is on Upper Lattimore Road. The school postcode takes you their…
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