Empowering Through Rock and Water
The Impact of Chaplaincy
A Chaplain's Impact on Self-Awareness and Confidence
"One of the tools that we utilize in our school is a program called 'Rock and Water.' Rock and Water is an experience that provides students with pathways to self-awareness, increased self-confidence, and social functioning. As the school chaplain, I am able to be released to run this with every student in the school. We have seen this benefiting the students as they apply what they experience in their lives in and out of school.
One mum told me a story that when her son came home from school, she asked him how his day was. He then told her about how he was playing soccer at school and was getting quite frustrated with some of the other kids and getting angry. She asked him what he did, and he said, 'I remembered what Mr. Irvine told us in Rock and Water and calmed my breathing down, walked away, and then when I calmed down, I went back to play soccer.'"
