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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Flow state training for All-Ability Adult Basketball players (1)
Wed 18 Jun
|St Albans
The flow state is a way to explain how the elite take their performance beyond the complete mastery of skills. We bypass the need to first attain elite-level skill mastery so everyone can experience the focus and performance of flow, using the skills they already possess.
Time & Location
18 Jun 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
St Albans, Hatfield Rd, St Albans AL1 3RQ, UK
Guests
About the event
Please use the gate off Upper Lattimore Road. https://maps.app.goo.gl/SRSj5V2hyjrAbDeE8
Flow state training stops players from doing this ...
One team would get a clear edge: organized, disciplined, and patient on offense. They wouldn’t blow the other team out of the gym, but they would get great looks every possession. They would build something like a 12-point lead.
The opponent responds by speeding up the game.
The team that had been in control starts to look completely different. Instead of staying patient, they join in and speed up. The game becomes a track meet of players running from one end to the next. All that has been practiced, by both teams, gets thrown out the window. Instead of running sets, it becomes one pass and shoot. Players taking early threes. Poor decision-making.
These are not bad teams.
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