@SingleBlade1

Guiding, Coaching, Mentoring - Coach Education, Leadership Training - Tripping & River Canoes - Photography, Video, Website Development - Experiential Learning

 Huddersfield
singleblade.co.uk
Joined February 2012
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Cultures truly matter. You do not have to dictate what narrative individuals should adopt but rather influence their existing narratives to foster a more sustainable perspective. This video demonstrates how a company can use our software SenseMaker® for cultural mapping within its organisation. This video clip was recorded at a conference organised by the Welsh Government in 2016. The software has since undergone significant updates and is capable of supporting government projects, organisational #culturalmapping, #employeeengagement, knowledge management, and storytelling initiatives that extend beyond general #surveys. If you’re interested in experiencing a demo and exploring the software's capabilities, please feel free to contact us here: thecynefin.co/contact/?utm_s…
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Greg Spencer retweeted
Luiz Pessoa@PessoaBrain1 Jul 2024
𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Have we been thinking too narrowly? "Beyond mechanism – extending our concepts of causation in neuroscience" Imo quite an important paper by Mitchell and Potter calling for much broader view of causation. osf.io/63qvy/download
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Replying to @thomaswhartley
True, no-one's ever "just a coach"… but more importantly, no-one's ever "just a learner" 1. Everyone contributes to (shapes) the context (incl. practice environment) for everyone else; 2. Anyone's interactions provides feedback through which we can learn; linkedin.com/pulse/learners-…

There are no learners.

There are no learners. There are no learners because there are no ‘breathers’ – that is to say we all learn and breathe, but we don’t talk about people as ‘breathers’ and we shouldn’t talk about...

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Replying to @MorrisCraig_ @thecathbishop
I am not sold on “executing your race plan to your highest potential” 🤔 — cf.@russellearnshaw asking “What makes the best paddlers in the world? Is it their ability to deliver a plan, or their ability to adapt within the performance?” 💃 — but the rest 🙏 spreaker.com/episode/the-jou…
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Replying to @movementcoachkm
Ecological approaches may be gathered around @fcummins' "Perplexity at the way our cognitivist theories provide our vocabulary (all of us!) despite their imagistic basis"… — but we are looking at @snowded's coherent heterogeneity — easily lost in Eco-D 🤔 xitter.cf/SingleBlade1/status/16…
Greg Spencer@SingleBlade16 Aug 2023
Replying to @SingleBlade1
As @JBruineberg et al recently noted, the roots of this pragmatic, empiricist, scientific movement were diverse 👇 - & over 40 years later, we continue to see a rich pluralism WITHIN ecological psychology… - & even more so with Karen Adolph et al 🧐 3/8 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d…
The International Society for Ecological Psychology was founded in 1981, 2 years after the death of James Gibson. Some of the early attendants describe the society’s early meetings as “inspiringly interdisciplinary, attracting misfits from many different subject areas” (Costall, 2011, p. 349). While Tim Ingold recounts they were “fiercely divided among themselves” (Ingold, 2018, p. 39), the “misfits” were nonetheless united in their opposition to cognitivism. These descriptions give the impression of a merry troupe of disciplinary outcasts in productive and perpetual disagreement with one another.

ALT The International Society for Ecological Psychology was founded in 1981, 2 years after the death of James Gibson. Some of the early attendants describe the society’s early meetings as “inspiringly interdisciplinary, attracting misfits from many different subject areas” (Costall, 2011, p. 349). While Tim Ingold recounts they were “fiercely divided among themselves” (Ingold, 2018, p. 39), the “misfits” were nonetheless united in their opposition to cognitivism. These descriptions give the impression of a merry troupe of disciplinary outcasts in productive and perpetual disagreement with one another.

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Replying to @GrayFThomas
A chance encounter in 1998 changed everything for me… & I still work to bring those lines of flight opened by Affeldt into productive tension with today's game-changing works, such as with @CarlWoods25' reformulations/developments of Tim Ingold's work 🙏 xitter.cf/SingleBlade1/status/15…
Greg Spencer@SingleBlade19 Apr 2022
In 1998, an idle skim of the latest European Journal of Philosophy changed the course of my life 🤯 I didn't get the detail… I'd not heard of Steven Affeldt… But Affeldt clearly GOT the contingency of ever-remarkable agreement-in-judgements… And lots more 😍 #My25YearStruggle
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Replying to @AaronBeighle @andyvasily @Greg_Dryer
We need to get beyond objectification of skills as discrete items we can "give" to others: skill is the adaptability we demonstrate as we adapt to what is in front of us — we just shape contexts for children to explore, exploit or calibrate their responses to what they perceive.
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Replying to @Alisonrpayne
Coaching is essentially performative. Yes, in Judith Butler's sense: best understood not as something one is or has, but as something one does — & we just find out afresh, through attending to what is asked of us, contingent ways of carrying on together… sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Replying to @markstkhlm
"When we have no idea how we should work with problems that we have clearly contributed to creating, we start a process of… ensuring nobody is accountable when it inevitably fails" - @markstkhlm on state-of-the-art international sports administration 🤠 footblogball.wordpress.com/2…
Förbyggande arbete When we have no idea how we should work with problems that we have clearly contributed to creating, we start a process of developing preventative measures. We set up a "projektversamhet", bring in an "extern referensgrupp", launch a "strategisk plan" (without consulting the people that actually work with the day-to-day operations), develop a "policydokument" with "riktlinjer" for every "närmaste chef" to implement using our "vardegrund". An important part of this work is a specifici ""hållbarhet" project that ensures that we look good in social media while giving the impression that the problem has nothing to do with us, thus ensuring nobody is accountable when it inevitably fails. https://footblogball.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/screenshot-2024-03-02-at-14.59.19-2.png

ALT Förbyggande arbete When we have no idea how we should work with problems that we have clearly contributed to creating, we start a process of developing preventative measures. We set up a "projektversamhet", bring in an "extern referensgrupp", launch a "strategisk plan" (without consulting the people that actually work with the day-to-day operations), develop a "policydokument" with "riktlinjer" for every "närmaste chef" to implement using our "vardegrund". An important part of this work is a specifici ""hållbarhet" project that ensures that we look good in social media while giving the impression that the problem has nothing to do with us, thus ensuring nobody is accountable when it inevitably fails. https://footblogball.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/screenshot-2024-03-02-at-14.59.19-2.png

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"Contra the cybernetic view, it is not the invariance of what is constructed but rather the continuation of constructing that determines whether the organism lives or dies. Within the constraints of this process, anything goes" @KathrynNave
Dialectical Systems@dialectical_sys28 Feb 2024
Some more Free Energy Principle, this time with a critical edge @KathrynNave presents her forthcoming book "The Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (MIT Press, 2025) dialecticalsystems.eu/contri…
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Replying to @bigpicsoccer
Content that sucks is commonplace across all of academia… but around the fringes, we can find content that rewards close reading / viewing: * Doug Ammons youtu.be/8XF7eqEOf_I * @mediasres behance.net/gallery/13397384… * @_ittu youtu.be/FPkHg7QPkdg * @CarlWoods25 (on Wayfinding)
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An excellent read 🤓 “we must challenge the belief that the ‘best’ way to manage discipline in schools is to ‘beef up’ coercion and control or to promote a kind of hypermasculine disciplinary approach that perpetuates… the “prevailing #gender order in schools.”
Greg Spencer@SingleBlade110 Jan 2024
“The reality is that without the “teaching wars,” many educational experts & gurus would find it hard to make a buck” — but “teachers don’t need patronising lectures from outsourced edu-gurus or expensive techniques… — a gem of a read c/o @lustreeducation melanieralph.com/2024/01/09/…
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Replying to @SeeRap
“…submission is not the fact of relinquishing of a freedom one already has, but the fact of giving up the pursuit of freedom. To not pursue freedom is tempting for all human beings, but women’s situation makes freedom more costly and thus submission is more appealing… #beauvoir
"Finally, and perhaps more importantly, Beauvoir’s existentialist ethics proposes a theory of freedom in which women’s submission appears not as a strange abdication of natural freedom but as the direct result of women’s oppression. It proposes a conception of freedom as an urge felt by everyone and as a costly risk, which makes it possible to respond to the problem of female submission. She shows that submission is not the fact of relinquishing of a freedom one already has, but the fact of giving up the pursuit of freedom. To not pursue freedom is tempting for all human beings, but women’s situation makes freedom more costly and thus submission is more appealing to women than men

ALT "Finally, and perhaps more importantly, Beauvoir’s existentialist ethics proposes a theory of freedom in which women’s submission appears not as a strange abdication of natural freedom but as the direct result of women’s oppression. It proposes a conception of freedom as an urge felt by everyone and as a costly risk, which makes it possible to respond to the problem of female submission. She shows that submission is not the fact of relinquishing of a freedom one already has, but the fact of giving up the pursuit of freedom. To not pursue freedom is tempting for all human beings, but women’s situation makes freedom more costly and thus submission is more appealing to women than men

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Greg Spencer retweeted
Serap Altinisik@SeeRap29 Dec 2023
„To become a #woman is to discover that our own body belongs to men’s gaze even before it is fully ours. The specificity of women’s body, according to #Beauvoir, is that it is a social body before it is a lived body, and therefore functions as a destiny.“ ⬇️
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Replying to @GregDowney1
"…methodological vibrancy & openness mean that our methods do not […] live on beyond their usefulness, hungry for an intellectual agenda, yielding endless minor variations on accepted protocols, churning out publication with little insight” #OpenAccess anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w…
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Replying to @PaulGlazier
No! Practice design (WITH athletes, not FOR athletes) may make use of constraints for three reasons: 1. To consolidate what looks good / disrupt what sucks… 2. To probe, & see what happens… 3. To amplify / dampen tendencies we see emerging… — & THAT is Constraining to Afford!
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Replying to @3dancingfeet
Yes, football is “in serious danger of suffocating other sports” — and yes, joy at the The Lionesses’ success leading to a spike in discourse exploring the origins of gender inequity in sport is quite commonly bittersweet due to ignorant portrayals of PE… xitter.cf/SingleBlade1/status/13…
Greg Spencer@SingleBlade11 Nov 2020
Replying to @SingleBlade1
The FAs (quite terrifying) "measure of success" is "90% of schools (primary/secondary) in England to be part of THE FA Girls' Football School Partnership network" - which means what, exactly, in terms of diversity of school PE & career paths for aspiring school teachers?
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"There is little point in developing excellent teachers if we continue to constrain them in hierarchical systems with limited time to develop their practice and with limited access to conceptual resources about education."
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Insightful paper by @WiringTheBrain. Here's a distillation. The concept of "representations" is widely used in cognitive science, but its meaning is debated. Representations are often thought of as internal "vehicles" that carry semantic "content" about something else. The author argues for thinking of representations simply as meaningful patterns rather than vehicles with content. Meaning is relational, contextual, and interpretive rather than an isolatable property. Representations evolve from pragmatic control signals to internalized semantic representations. Simple signals directly couple receptors to actions (e.g. bacteria moving toward food). Meaning is grounded through experience - initially through pragmatic relevance for control, later through networks of conceptual relations and roles. Discrete neural patterns act as symbols, evoking meaning through stored context. They enable cognition by serving as manipulable, meaningful cognitive objects.
Kevin Mitchell@WiringTheBrain4 Sep 2023
The origins of meaning – from pragmatic control signals to semantic representations psyarxiv.com/dfkrv - my latest, on ways to demystify "representations"
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Replying to @DCGreyMattersUK
“Despite occasional challenges which tend to dominate the stories we tell, we find clubs up and down the country doing a pretty good job of navigating (or at least surviving) these landscapes of uncertainty” 👇 — focus on the quality of the interactions 🤠 express.adobe.com/page/uxSfd…
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