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 Teenagers Connect Through Basketball - in St Albans
Wed 25 Jun
|St Albans
Flow state training is cultivating a deeper understanding of the relationships and connections between players to enhance flow.
Time & Location
25 Jun 2025, 17:00 – 18:00
St Albans, Hatfield Rd, St Albans AL1 3RQ, UK
Guests
About the event
Please use the gate off Upper Lattimore Road. https://maps.app.goo.gl/SRSj5V2hyjrAbDeE8
It's like painting a picture - the more colours and shades we understand and use, the richer and more vibrant our artwork becomes. Similarly, the more we understand the interconnectedness of play, the more harmonious our flow becomes. It's all about recognizing patterns. We do something, pause, see what happened, and respond. We keep going until something we could not have known before appears—a Wow moment. The outcome of flow is Wow. This understanding can help us navigate life more smoothly and creatively.
SkillsofWow.org is the governing body for those who coach the skills of Wow.