Train the ability to make it work by strengthening 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 comes from the relationship of the whole, not from a reduction to the parts.
The ability to anticipate comes from reading the relationships between the parts of the whole, not from computing the function of individual parts.
The generation shaped by the world war developed the relational skills needed to establish standards for rebuilding. Later generations used technology to extend those inherited skills, reducing the world into increasingly smaller parts. Today, we can no longer rely solely on relational skills that establish standards for comfort and safety. We also need different relational skills to connect those parts and work together more effectively as a whole.
Two factors make it difficult to see the whole picture:
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Cognitive offloading: We rely on technology to organise our lives, which directs our attention toward individual parts.
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Reductionism: Breaking a big problem into tiny pieces can feel like an easier, safer way to please others. We follow assigned roles and repeat familiar habits. We do what others do because, if we are wrong, at least we are wrong together. But when we reduce each other to individual parts, we can’t give one another access to the relational whole. We all end up living empty reductionist lives.
Older adults and adult beginners. Mixed.
Wed 16 Sept
|Loreto College, St Albans
When it isn’t working, we show you how to strengthen the relationships between the parts of basketball so they connect better as a whole.
Time & Location
16 Sept 2026, 18:00 – 19:00
Loreto College, St Albans, Hatfield Rd, St Albans AL1 3RQ, UK
About the event
Conventional approaches break a skill into separate parts. Once we master those parts, we are taught to connect them into preplanned sequences, often called habits. After those habits are fully learned, only a few of us reach the point of embodying them within the whole. We take the opposite approach: we begin by embodying the whole. We strengthen the relationships among the parts you have now—even when they are not yet mastered—so they can work together more effectively as a whole. Then we improve and add parts to the whole. We avoid habits altogether.
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£10.00
+£0.25 ticket service fee
Pay what you can
We believe that financial constraints should not prevent anyone from playing. However, if you are able to, please pay the full price, as this helps us remain open and provides free or discounted tickets for many players. Our goal is not to make a profit; rather, we need to cover the costs of the courts so we can stay open.
£+Ticket service fee
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