Nowadays more than 50.000 teachers, spread over more than 18 countries worldwide, have trained approximately two million children and students. What is Rock and Water? The Rock Concept
- Physical Rock Attitude: Muscles are strained, breath is down in your belly, body is hard, and feet are rooted to the ground. Physical contact is met with hard resistance.
- Mental Rock Attitude: You go your own way! You may have exchanged opinions to come to your point of view but now you’re closing off from other ideas.
- Social Rock Attitude: You close off from opinions and feelings of others. The Water Concept
- Physical Water Attitude: Muscles are relaxed but alert, breath is in your belly (your centre of action), and feet are in contact with the ground.
- Mental Water Attitude: Strong awareness of own feelings and ideas but there is also attention toward others. Self-confidence leads to introspection and exchange of ideas with others.
- Social Water Attitude: Communication and solidarity are at the centre of positive and cooperative relationships. How can Rock and Water help? Rock and Water reduces bullying, increases self-control and enhances social and communication skills. The workshops offer:
- Practical anti-bullying strategies
- Alternatives to aggressive verbal and physical responses
- Better ability to be in control through grounding, centeredness and mental focus
- Increased self respect, self control and self confidence
- Enhanced resilience skills and well-being
- Skills to identify and monitor reactive behaviour patterns
The workshop exercises promote:
- Communication skills
- Development of compassion, understanding and sympathy
- Boundary setting, simple self-defence and communication skills
- Awareness of purpose and motivation in life
- Intuition, mental strength, empathic feeling, positive feeling, thinking and visualising
