When researching what connections Indigenous people have with rocks and how their healing properties may differ from what I have found earlier, I stumbled across this website. The website is a source from UBC on Decolonizing Teaching, Indigenizing Learning and has a page on stones and balancing. The page was super informative and provided how teachers could prepare for a lesson on stones and balancing. There is information on how to prepare the students, practicing humility, additional sources, BC curriculum connections, First Peoples’ Principles of Learning, and inviting the community. The page also included a video interview with Jock Langlois about his healing journey with finding balance in life and how rock stacking has helped him and others.

I had not thought about how a healing property of rocks could be used in a process towards healing. Jock’s story about the act of balancing rocks really touched me and made me curious about finding balance myself through rock stacking, which will now be one of my future inquiry blog posts. I also learned about how in Indigenous peoples’ culture, rocks, spirits and stories to tell. Rocks are often thought of as ‘Grandfathers’ to Indigenous people. A point that was made that really stood out to me was “Stacking rocks symbolizes creation and connecting the spirit of the rock to ourselves as the rock standing requires concentration and focus and leads to healing.” This page will also be beneficial for me to use when investigating how I can connect rock identification, collecting, and now balancing to the BC curriculum.