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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Basketball - adult, all ability, mixed, @ Bushey (3)
Sun 29 Sept
|Bushey
We improve @ Basketball using skills to thrive in a world driven by Artificial Intelligence
Time & Location
29 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 20:00
Bushey, Aldenham Rd, Bushey WD23 2TD, UK
Guests
About the event
All-ability adults play basketball to step outside of their machine-mindedness and be present in their Wowness. As players shift from a machine mindedness, which emphasizes pinpointing aspects of their game that are substandard, to a focus on spacing and timing that transcends play limitations, they cultivate the skills necessary to thrive in an AI-driven environment. This evolution enables them to face challenges with remarkable and inspiring moments of "Wow.".
We play in a 1.2.3 Wow zone.
Switch off the impulse to build Lego-like pieces of skills and knowledge into a specified game plan; and
Embrace a serene sense of togetherness, equilibrium, tranquility, and awareness of our surroundings, and select a micro routine of movement to initiate moving around what we see; and
Take a moment to reflect on how the micro routine of movement changed what is going on around us, then select and execute another micro routine,…
SkillsofWow.org is the governing body for those who coach the skills of Wow.