Basketball and swim with Gestalt sports trainers.
Because concentrating on individual components takes away the perception of the whole
A typical brain has the capacity to hold awareness of all components and perceive them as a cohesive whole. Without a perception of the whole, you can’t see how moving parts are reshaping the whole, so new opportunities emerge as current ones fade. You can't see how moving parts continually generate something greater than the sum of their parts. You can’t embody the principles of Gestalt— what is beautiful, true, and good—the essence of the full human experience. It is worth taking time out to train the perception of the whole.
The sustained cohesive whole is achieved when all players, including the star athletes, view their role as sustaining the cohesive whole. It’s a calm and continuous layering of unfolding options that finds a way. When the team starts to fragment, leaders hold it together.
The most significant obstacle to maintaining this cohesive whole is ego. When a star player attempts to take over a game by focusing solely on scoring, the other players tend to shift their attention to supporting the star and away from sustaining the cohesive whole. When players put too much attention to doing what the coaches want’s, nobody is paying attention to sustaining the cohesive whole. It's worth taking time out to train the perception of the whole.
Spectrum basketball 16+ (3)
Wed 05 Jun
|Loreto College (St Albans)
Enjoy the freedom of playing - thinking - outside the box - by playing basketball
Time & Location
05 Jun 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
Loreto College (St Albans), Hatfield Rd, St Albans AL1 3RQ, UK
Guests
About the event
Enjoy the freedom of playing - thinking - outside the box - by playing basketball. Thinking inside the box - we achieve what we can reach. Thinking outside the box we attain performance beyond our reach. We find other ways we can’t yet see. That once seen we wonder why we didn’t see it before. A Wow moment.
For the broadest spectrum of athletic abilities
16+ Mixed
6 to 7pm
Wednesdays
St Albans
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