As Gestalt sports trainers, we show how to sustain a cohesive whole lost concentrating on individual parts.
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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As Gestalt sports trainers, we provide opportunities to train the perception of the whole, that was reduced to focus on parts. We train the brain to sustain the cohesive whole. We provide training to sustain a healthy brain.
Basketball - adult, all ability, mixed, @ Bushey (14)
Sun 05 Jan
|Bushey
Adults of All Abilities Join Together for a Collaborative Basketball Dance. Come and experience how we enhance performance without relying on automation. Instead of viewing opponents as obstacles, we focus on building relationships to maneuver past them. Together, we dance.
Time & Location
05 Jan 2025, 19:00 – 20:00
Bushey, Aldenham Rd, Bushey WD23 2TD, UK
Guests
About the event
The session is run some of our teaching members. They know when they see machine-mindedness on the players' faces. They know when players are waiting to act until they spot a direct path to score and target winning a collision with an opposing player who is the way. While physicality is acceptable, it should be used to create space for maneuvering around opponents not going through them. Relationships run the play not machines. This approach allows players more time to execute their basketball skills, leading to improvement, which is a pleasant side benefit. The primary aim of this session is to help us move away from machine-mindedness. To be more human than machine.
By attending this event you are accepting peer review from our the attending teacher members. Learn more at https://www.skillsofwow.org/wow
SkillsofWow.org is the governing body for those who coach the skills of Wow.