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NSW Sydney Heathcote – 2 Day Primary Workshop
14 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This workshop applies the Rock & Water concepts and principles to all grades of primary education and the common situations that often occur at school. It meets the demands and needs of teachers and trainers working with young children.
Students learn to stand stronger in many ways. In the playground and the classroom they learn to identify their limitations and possibilities, learn to communicate more effectively, learn to feel, set and defend their own boundaries and to respect others’ boundaries too.
The workshop manual includes profiles of students from each age group, and gives emphasis to their age specific (social) identity development. Practical material is provided which explains why certain exercises are better suited to students from various age groups.
Find out more »NSW | West Sydney – 3 Day Workshop
24 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This professional development training, delivered only by our Master Instructors, offers educators and professionals a new way to interact with young people, adolescents and adults. These workshops begin with simple self-defence, boundary and communication exercises. The workshops aims to develop self-confidence, ability for self-reflection and respect for oneself and others.
Rock & Water reduces bullying, increases self control and enhances social and communication skills.
Find out more »Newcastle Focus on Girls 2 Day Workshop
The workshop consists of a 10 lesson program using the basic skills and concepts of the Rock & Water program, while also paying special attention to the developmental challenges, qualities and strengths of girls and women. Participants work with Rock & Water principles to enhance communication skills and encourage a sense of one’s own individuality and personal path in life. This training aims to support girls and women in their journey to becoming powerful individuals. The Rock concept is used…
Find out more »TAS | Hobart – 3 Day Workshop
24 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This professional development training, delivered only by our Master Instructors, offers educators and professionals a new way to interact with young people, adolescents and adults. These workshops begin with simple self-defence, boundary and communication exercises. The workshops aims to develop self-confidence, ability for self-reflection and respect for oneself and others.
Rock & Water reduces bullying, increases self control and enhances social and communication skills.
Find out more »TAS | Hobart – 3 Day Workshop
24 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This professional development training, delivered only by our Master Instructors, offers educators and professionals a new way to interact with young people, adolescents and adults. These workshops begin with simple self-defence, boundary and communication exercises. The workshops aims to develop self-confidence, ability for self-reflection and respect for oneself and others.
Rock & Water reduces bullying, increases self control and enhances social and communication skills.
Find out more »NSW Parramatta – 3 Day Workshop Sydney
24 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This professional development training, delivered only by our Master Instructors, offers educators and professionals a new way to interact with young people, adolescents and adults. These workshops begin with simple self-defence, boundary and communication exercises. The workshops aims to develop self-confidence, ability for self-reflection and respect for oneself and others.
Rock & Water reduces bullying, increases self control and enhances social and communication skills.
Find out more »NSW South West Sydney – 2 Day Primary Workshop
16 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This workshop applies the Rock & Water concepts and principles to all grades of primary education and the common situations that often occur at school. It meets the demands and needs of teachers and trainers working with young children.
Students learn to stand stronger in many ways. In the playground and the classroom they learn to identify their limitations and possibilities, learn to communicate more effectively, learn to feel, set and defend their own boundaries and to respect others’ boundaries too.
The workshop manual includes profiles of students from each age group, and gives emphasis to their age specific (social) identity development. Practical material is provided which explains why certain exercises are better suited to students from various age groups.
Find out more »NSW | South West Sydney – 3 Day Workshop Ingleburn
24 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This professional development training, delivered only by our Master Instructors, offers educators and professionals a new way to interact with young people, adolescents and adults. These workshops begin with simple self-defence, boundary and communication exercises. The workshops aims to develop self-confidence, ability for self-reflection and respect for oneself and others.
Rock & Water reduces bullying, increases self control and enhances social and communication skills.
Find out more »NSW | Newcastle – Belmont High School – 3 Day Workshop
24 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
This professional development training, delivered only by our Master Instructors, offers educators and professionals a new way to interact with young people, adolescents and adults. These workshops begin with simple self-defence, boundary and communication exercises. The workshops aims to develop self-confidence, ability for self-reflection and respect for oneself and others.
Rock & Water reduces bullying, increases self control and enhances social and communication skills.
Find out more »NSW South Sydney – 2 Day Autism Spectrum Disorders Program
14 hours of NSW Teacher Institute endorsed accreditation
The ‘Two Day Rock and Water and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and children with additional and related problems’ is a unique Rock and Water approach that helps children (and adults) who are diagnosed with ASD to develop more self confidence, better communication skills and strategies to deal with the world and it’s sometimes overwhelming demands.
The workshop will assist in increasing self-control and assertiveness, to develop body language awareness, to encourage better communication skills and to decrease feelings of anxiety. Master instructor Marc Boas, Theo Kamevaar and Freerk Ykema have developed a new manual (250 pages) containing successful strategies, dozens of new exercises and up to date information about ASD.
When people in general - and in particular people with ASD – end up in a stressful situation, they often respond according to one of the following two stereotyped patterns of behaviour:
Rock (too rocky): emotionally closed, macho, surviving through power and force) or
Water (too watery): too compliant towards others, not being able to assert oneself very well, avoiding behaviour).
In both cases there is a risk that people are not able to stay close to their own feeling and that they will “lose themselves”. The Rock and Water program shows, first in a physical way, that both strategies have their value, but that this depends on the situation. The behavior is not rejected, but extended through exploration of alternatives.
The program makes use of psychophysical didactics. The starting point is the development of emotional awareness on the basis of body awareness, which ultimately leads to self-awareness.
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