LOOKUP! From the controlled, narrow pursuit of perfection. Artificial Intelligence has already won that race.
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We train you to stop taking your eye off the whole in a narrow pursuit of controlled perfection.
To see the nuanced, intricate, layered, flowing web of relationships of connections that carry across the space between all things.
At times of confusion or uncertainty, the tendency to think the only option is to take control and close the empty barren space between things. We don't stay long enough in the space between all things.
You will learn to hold the belief that the so-called empty space between things is actually fertile ground, rich with unknown possibilities—a fertile void. To stay with and embrace the space, knowing that what emerges is opportunity.
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We train you to have undirected and direct awareness of the whole.
Undirect awareness—wider angle, open and receptive to emerging interests. Staying in the present and experiencing what is happening now in as wide, inclusive, and open a way as possible.
Direct awareness—is an awareness of one connection between us. Each direct connection is like meeting someone through conversation and then ending it and saying goodbye in a satisfying way.
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We train you to have signature presence.
Being present in the moment is central to Gestalt and any other form of profound experience. It is something that we do on our own in a conducive environment that does not require other people. Having presence is another matter. This requires us to behave in a specific way that makes an impact on the relational connections that carry across the space between all things. It is being present with another so they experience it from and within you. Signature presence is much more an expression of yourself; it is a genuine communication of who you authentically are in relation to another. You don’t have signature presence; you use it for creative adaptation, cycling through a series of strengthening and weakening connections from which endless opportunities arise. You make the void fertile.
LOOKUP!
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Gestalt training
for basketball
We play to lift our heads out of the details. To keep the eye in on the relationships of connections that carry across the space between us. We don’t close empty space, we fill it with opportunity.
02
Gestalt training
for swimming
By paying attention to the relations of connection that run through the whole of body, we tune into the feel of the water. The water naturally aligns all the elements of our stroke and we swim with flow
03
Gestalt training
for big conversations
We take a big topic. We write down the roles; these are the dots. We connect the dots with string. The shorter the string, the closer the power distance between the roles. The higher the dot, the more influence on the whole. We move everything to see if we can get more from the sum of the parts.
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Gestalt training
for signature presence
We explore all the relationships of connections flowing around us to express our signature presence.
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All my life, I have struggled to deconstruct and reassemble things because I can’t take my eye off the wholeness of all the relational connections that carry across the space between all things. I haven't learned the Flow State and Gestalt to apply to my life. I have discovered that my life is explained by the Flow State and Gestalt.
In 1994, I was a business analyst working out which parts of human relationships could be programmed into a product called Lotus Notes. Our early conclusion was stark: only interactions that could be quantified were suitable for digital adaptation. This meant focusing on social connections defined by the acceptance or rejection of presented content.
My path eventually led me to work with young people who experienced social connection largely through the lens of rejection. I dedicated myself to helping them see that genuine connection is far more nuanced than simply avoiding rejection—it’s about understanding and navigating the complexities of human interaction.
Years later, I encountered the work of Dr. Iain McGilchrist, which offered a profound lens through which to view the unintended consequences of our early explorations. In 1994, we couldn’t have foreseen the rise of the internet and mobile technology as we know them today. Now, connection—both online and offline—has often been reduced to a rapid-fire series of yes/no decisions: scrolling, swiping, accepting, and rejecting what’s placed before us.
All our attention is on what can be deconstructed and reconstructed. We know we are missing something, but we don't know how to find it because what we are missing is awareness of the unified wholes (Gestalts).
We can't find these wholes by deconstructing and reconstructing the parts. And now we have AI automating the deconstruction and reconstruction of things ever more quickly. We need to divert our attention away from going as narrow as possible as fast as possible. To keep our eye's in on the whole.
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