Stefano Besana - Professional Training & Coaching

Citiamo una piccola spiegazione dalla versione inglese di Wikipedia:

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Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.

Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, or in the groove.

Csíkszentmihályi identifies the following nine factors as accompanying an experience of flow:

1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities). Moreover, the challenge level and skill level should both be high.
2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
4. Distorted sense of time, one's subjective experience of time is altered.
5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).
7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging.

Not all are needed for flow to be experienced.

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Le implicazioni che una teoria del genere può avere in contesti formativi ed educativi sono molteplici, tanto per cominciare configurare esperienze ottimali in cui la sfida sia di livello sufficiente per poter rappresentare un ostacolo, ma non eccessivamente alta: in modo che non sia da freno all'apprendimento. 

Approfondiremo con una serie di articoli nel nostro blog questo concetto tanto complesso quanto importante in molteplici dimensioni della nostra vita quotidiana.