Relational awareness training
Return to your teams with the relational awareness to play your part in sustaining whole-system resilience.
With all attention on making everything function as expected, each function mastered builds confidence that nothing will go wrong—until one part fails and the whole fragments. When systemic fragmentation stems from broken relationships between functions, improving individual functions misses the point. A better approach is to develop the relational awareness to process how functions relate as a whole. To relax into alert connection and enjoy a dance of anticipation, confident that we can handle whatever comes next.
Welcome. I hope you’re well. My name is Jon Thorne, and I spent the first part of my career separating functional and relational thinking from human connection. In the second, I focused on bringing the relational back to the functional. My book explains why meaningful connection cannot come from focusing only on how things function. That may be enough for some people, but I’m writing for those who want something more.
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Basketball - adult, all ability, mixed, @ Bushey (19)
Sun 09 Feb
|Bushey
Play basketball to enjoy being more human than machine.


Time & Location
09 Feb 2025, 19:00 – 20:00
Bushey, Aldenham Rd, Bushey WD23 2TD, UK
Guests
About the event
Coaches help everyone play without thinking like a machine. To enjoy being more human than machine.
One of the earliest examples of this type of coaching can be traced back to Phil Jackson and the triangle offense, which helps players constantly reset organic relational flowing movements, to consistently outsmart teams using mechanical strategies to stop his team's playing. Players are helped to move through these 3 steps.
3 steps to playing without thinking like a machine
In this session, coaches help everyone to stop thinking like a machine. They help everyone - who they think needs it - to move through these 3 steps.
Step 1: Recognize the limitations of machine thinking.
Thanks to Dr Iain McGilchrist we now know how machine thinking impacts the brain. When machine thinking is in charge of how we see the world we only see what we need to see to understand how to control…
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