Tyler Yearby – Ecological Dynamics for Dummies

Tyler Yearby – Ecological Dynamics for Dummies

In this 90 minute course, we will introduce and unpack the main theoretical concepts which make-up an Ecological Dynamics framework that we believe can immediately change your personal Form of Life as a practitioner.

Within it, we aim to define and expand on ideas such as:

• Accepting the reality: the complexity of sport movement behavior
• Why it’s imperative that you adopt Systems Thinking
• The marriage of Ecological Psychology and Dynamical Systems Theory into Ecological Dynamics
• Why Bernstein’s ideas regarding Dexterity may be our main objective for athletes and humans alike
• What is Self-organization and why is it essential that we grasp onto its presence in movement systems
• Emergence within movement systems in the form of skilled movement solutions
• Why Information is power and Affordances hold the key
• Why perception and action must be coupled
• The importance of movement variability (Bernstein was onto something with repetition without repetition too!)
• What is this whole Constraints-Led Approach that everyone is talking about?
• Why is it so important that we acknowledge if a task is a ‘Representative’ one?
• Who you should read, follow, and learn from within the field