Rock and Water Training Queensland is a Gadaku Institute-accredited organisation. The Rock and Water program is developed by Dutch educationalist Freerk Ykema.
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 w
ay! 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
