Paying attention to the cohesive whole.
Whenever players and coaches are asked about how they won a close game, they nearly always say how they connected as a cohesive whole. Yet, little attention is given to training the ability to sustain a cohesive whole.
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To avoid limiting performance to simply trying harder to execute the parts, we should set aside time to train the ability to sustain a cohesive whole. To recall the childlike joy of connecting as a whole without an algorithm directing us. Connect to experience something greater than the sum of the parts. To embody Gestalt. Experience what is beautiful, true, and good. To embody the full human experience.
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We build an awareness of the whole from seeing the connections between all parts. We shape this whole, so new opportunities emerge as current ones dwindle. Two of the most effective activities for training this are basketball and swimming.
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Community events focus on *Embracing Joyful Connection Beyond Algorithms*.
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For sports clubs, we enhance performance by training players to sustain a cohesive whole. Contact us.

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.
