The Rock and Water Program offers teachers, youth workers, health professionals and support services a new way to interact with students through physical/social teaching.

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So why is this program so popular? What does it teach?

• Practical Anti-Bullying strategies
• Alternatives to aggressive verbal and physical responses to fear and doubt
• Thinking and being in control, through grounding, centeredness and mental focus
• Self respect, self control and self confidence

Physical exercises are constantly linked with mental and social skills. The  Rock and Water program leads from simple self defence, boundary and communication exercises to a strong notion of self-confidence. The program offers a framework of exercises and ideas about students and manhood to assist boys to become aware of purpose and motivation in their life. Topics include: intuition, body language, mental strength, empathic feeling, positive feeling, positive thinking and positive visualising. Discussion topics include bullying, sexual harrassment, homophobia, life goals, desires and following an inner compass.

Four leading threads are inter-related in the program:

Physical exercises are constantly linked with mental and social skills. The program leads from simple self defence, boundary and communication exercises to a strong notion of self-confidence. The program offers a framework of exercises and ideas about students and manhood to assist boys to become aware of purpose and motivation in their life.

Topics include: intuition, body language, mental strength, empathic feeling, positive feeling, positive thinking and positive visualising. Discussion topics include bullying, sexual harrassment, homophobia, life goals, desires and following an inner compass.

1   Grounding, centring and focusing
Learning how to stand firm and relaxed. How to concentrate your breath in your belly and focus attention (first external, later transformed to an internal goal).

2   The golden triangle of
- body awareness
- emotional awareness
- self-awareness
Emotions are expressed in the body by way of muscular tension high breath/ low breath etc. Therefore, increasing body-awareness can lead to more insight and experience of ones own patterns of reaction which, in turn, can offer a chance to deepen and further develop emotional awareness and self-awareness.

3   Communication
The development of physical forms of communication as a basis for the development of other, more verbally oriented, forms of communication.

4   The Rock and Water concept
The tough, immovable rock attitude versus the mobile, communicative water attitude. This concept can be developed and applied at various levels:
the physical, the mental and the social level. At a physical level it means that an attack can be parried by firmly strained muscles (rock) but also and more often effectively by moving along with the energy of the attacker (water). At a social level for instance in a conversation it is also possible to choose between a rock or water attitude and the same choice applies to the way in which one maintains relationships with others. Finally, at a spiritual level, the apparent opposites between rock and water disappear. Insight and experience come about when a realisation occurs that both ways are needed to reach self-fulfilment and that people, in their deepest essence, are connected to each other and travel along a path together.