When it’s not working, we often limit our response to doubling down on fixing faulty parts, when we should also focus on strengthening the relationships between the parts so they connect better as a whole.
The whole is not the sum
of its parts. It's the
relationship
between them.
Insight emerges from the relationship of the whole, not from a reduction to the parts.
The ability to keep discovering new ways to make things work emerges from our relationship with the whole.
The generation shaped by the world war developed relational skills to establish the standards needed for rebuilding. Later generations used technology to extend those inherited skills, reducing the world into ever-smaller parts. Today, we need relational skills to reconnect to function more effectively as a whole. We can no longer rely solely on relational skills to create standards of comfort and safety. We also need the relational skills of the whole.
When you feel comfortably in control,
your attention is probably focused entirely
on fixing faulty parts.
Unless you also pay attention
to the relationships that connect the whole,
it will soon stop working.
Basketball - younger teenagers, all ability, mixed, @ Bushey (20)
Sun 09 Feb
|Bushey
Play basketball to enjoy being more human than machine.
Time & Location
09 Feb 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
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
Some people naturally live in Step 3 while others get stuck in Step 1 and Step 2. But given the determination to experience Wow moments most can get through to Step 3.
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…
SkillsofWow.org is the governing body for those who coach the skills of Wow.