Basketball and swim with Gestalt sports trainers.
Because concentrating on individual components takes away the perception of the whole
When the brain is in a healthy state, it has the capacity to hold awareness of all components and perceive them as a cohesive whole. Without a perception of the whole, you can’t see how moving parts are reshaping the whole, so new opportunities emerge as current ones fade. You can't see how moving parts continually generate something greater than the sum of their parts. You can’t embody the principles of Gestalt— what is beautiful, true, and good—the essence of the full human experience. It is worth taking time out to train the perception of the whole.
The sustained cohesive whole is achieved when all players, including the star athletes, view their role as sustaining the cohesive whole. It’s a calm and continuous layering of unfolding options that finds a way. When the team starts to fragment, leaders hold it together.
The most significant obstacle to maintaining this cohesive whole is ego. When a star player attempts to take over a game by focusing solely on scoring, the other players tend to shift their attention to supporting the star and away from sustaining the cohesive whole. When players put too much attention to doing what the coaches want’s, nobody is paying attention to sustaining the cohesive whole. It's worth taking time out to train the perception of the whole.
All ability adults - Play basketball to keep our eye in on the whole - Bushey (4)
Sun 07 Dec
|Bushey
We guide players to notice the subtle connections that shape every moment. By seeing the whole picture, they make smarter adjustments right away.
Time & Location
07 Dec 2025, 19:00 – 20:00
Bushey, Aldenham Rd, Bushey WD23 2TD, UK
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About the event
# The Importance of Training the Ability to Perceive and Sense the Whole
The whole is the nuanced, intricate layers of relational connections that constantly flow around us. It cannot be fully quantified or entirely comprehended, making it impossible to control completely. If we don’t keep our eye in, it is easy to become out of tune with the whole. When this occurs, we find ourselves expending increasing amounts of energy attempting to prevent our plans from being derailed by external factors. In our exhaustion, we may resort to seizing whatever is readily available, doing nothing at all, or attempting to push our way through. All of which fails because we are out of tune with the whole. It's why we train to stay tuned into the whole. It's why it is the one non-technical skill the best rely on the most.
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