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@sonjabl Do leaders *really* need introducing to complexity? Or do we just need to support sense-making in ways which keep attention focused on possibilities inherent in any given situation? How do we help leader keep attention on the territory rather than the map? singleblade.co.uk/2020/08/03/nav… 
@sonjabl Gain traction by focusing on the temptations which can lead us away from the territory. Highlight the bewitching allure of playing safe, of control-freakery & of certainty merchants. Develop wariness of efforts to escape everyday messiness 👇 #BecauseHuman
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@sonjabl Ultimately, we want communities which are better attuned to how immersed we are within complexity - so make anthro-complexity tools (e.g. Sensemaker, Trios) the *norm* for *everyone* - even in non-critical areas - establish expectations such that even school pupils can challenge!
1/n How come we still have academics sustaining narratives of #obesity rather than of how real people find value & meaning in everyday lives? Revisit @whatsthepont on @tobyjlowe / @snowded & accept criticising "neoliberal" does not make things progressive!
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New out 🤯 A review which says lots about the academic context in which it was written - with its embedded behaviorist fixations on just implementing *better* - with complete disregard for the unintended consequences of treating "agency" as a dirty word 👇
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In all #becausehuman fields, we see justifiable professional kick-back at reductionist agendas driven by a focus on #obesity & nonsensical CMO guidance of 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day for healthy growth and development 👇
What does it take to sustain screwiness in the way the world works? Mostly, it's just good people, trying their best to get us to a better place... within constraints which pretty much preclude us actually getting anywhere! A case in point with @JamesRRudd
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These authors come across as hugely committed to something we might all agree upon: improving young people's experiences of physical education through better school-based-interventions. Sounds great? Agreed, & pretty much everything about their study models best practice 🥳
Sadly, established "best practice" involves further embedding the medicalisation of PE as if it should be about the potential contribution of physical activity to everything from quality of life, self-perception & cognition to the likelyhood of becoming healthy & active adults 🤯
"What follows [is] a protest against psychologistic approaches to ‘grounded cognition’ [that] effectively put the ground inside the brain, leaving individuals stranded in an unspecified ‘environment’ which is invoked
merely for the purposes of [the body]"
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merely for the purposes of [the body]"
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"What distinguishes the expert from the novice, then, is not that the mind of the former is more richly furnished with content [but] a greater sensitivity to cues in the environment & a greater capacity to respond to these cues with judgement and precision" - not representatons!
"For the ground of knowing – or, if we must use the term, of cognition – is not an internal neural substrate that resembles the ground outside but the very ground we walk, where earth & sky are tempered in the ongoing production of life" - the walker is "thinking in movement" 👇
How do we connect sense-makers around:
1. A common respect for the voices of young people;
2. The diverse experiences of those who have spent their lives helping others find meaning in movement?
As @ImSporticus notes, this CSJ paper is not the answer!
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1. A common respect for the voices of young people;
2. The diverse experiences of those who have spent their lives helping others find meaning in movement?
As @ImSporticus notes, this CSJ paper is not the answer!
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Does school-based sport have a place? Of course! For some, school sport will be a way of becoming entangled in the lives of others in ways which will lead to a pastime becoming a valued, stabilising influence throughout life. That's awesome! #becausehuman
But as @ImSporticus notes, it's not "sport" that has the impact. That's down to "good people intentionally designing positive experiences through sport" - which is not the same thing!
Ideal: those involved co-creating the positive experiences! #ownership
Ideal: those involved co-creating the positive experiences! #ownership
"Please, don't make systems work for people, because this is [...] everything that's wrong with the sector. Making stuff work for others. Help people discover & steer and own their own pathways for a change" 😍
Well said, @ChristianSeelos & @NewSystemAlly
Well said, @ChristianSeelos & @NewSystemAlly
What's brought me here? "the realisation that the disadvantage, the injustice, the unfairness we see around us is actually in part caused by the systems that we have seeking to address those issues" - @BethWatts494 - respecting that people sustain systems with good intentions!
"[..] the difficulty we face is the professionalisation of our sector [fueling] obsession with solutions rather than problems. And [...] the more we are driving on the solution side, the more pressure we relieve from the systems that give rise to the problems to change them" - CS
@snowded blog of the year & 3 keys 👇🏽
1. "any map needs to be subject to continuous feedback [...]
"imagine a sort of war room with attitudinal & constraint maps visible and shifting to allow complexity to be navigated rather than contained or avoided"
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1. "any map needs to be subject to continuous feedback [...]
"imagine a sort of war room with attitudinal & constraint maps visible and shifting to allow complexity to be navigated rather than contained or avoided"
cognitive-edge.com/intire-of-it-s…
2. Key 2 may be familiar -
"Soil fertility is heavily impacted by a type of fungus known as mycorrhizae which has a symbiotic relationship with the plant [...]
"The equivalent in an organisation and the informal networks and associations that keep the formal systems working.
"Soil fertility is heavily impacted by a type of fungus known as mycorrhizae which has a symbiotic relationship with the plant [...]
"The equivalent in an organisation and the informal networks and associations that keep the formal systems working.
Likewise, key 3 - which links familiar themes of scaffolding
"organisation units, identities, and other objects and their points of coherence" to the design of interactions in situations where "you can’t fully know what you need to know until you need to know it" #BecauseHuman
"organisation units, identities, and other objects and their points of coherence" to the design of interactions in situations where "you can’t fully know what you need to know until you need to know it" #BecauseHuman
A series of related gems today - starting off with a truly outstanding scene-setter from @CarlWoods25, @JamesRRudd & @Robertson_SJ - asking (en-route) "what are the properties of specific affordances that invite their realisation by certain individuals?"
sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…
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Supporting wayfinding "is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action"
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Then a podcast which does an awesome job of showing what all of this can look like in a high-performance coaching context - with an exemplary, inspiring coach who is "really thankful" he "never had stable access to a coach" - c/o @MorrisCraig_ & @stu_arm spreaker.com/user/thetalent…
