The Story Behind the Graphic
This graphic, by artist and Self-Regger Kristin Wiens, offers 10 practical strategies that will help you begin to embed Shanker Self-Reg® at the core of your educational practice.
Self-control strategies like reward, consequences, reminders, incentive and correction have been dominant in education and child-rearing for centuries. Self-control-based approaches were used on us as kids and we use them as adults. So we slip into them automatically, even as we buy into Self-Reg’s focus on looking for the stress behind the behaviour.
Therefore, doing Self-Reg requires us to establish new habits: different ways of seeing, interpreting and responding to children. These ideas, adapted from Dr. Stuart Shanker’s Self-Reg learning journey, will help you along that path.
See more fun graphics from Kristin Wiens here.
2 Comments
I think that this graphic neatly records the process needed to help a person regain homeostasis. In working with children, it can be common to feel like our efforts should have an instant response rather than looking for smaller constant steps in the goal. Each small step should be celebrated when the child is able to share them.
This graphic could be read and recognised by others, looking from a Victorian or behaviourist perspective. I think the main difference is that from a Self-Reg perspective, the reframing and understanding of the triune brain and chemical responses to stress are more a focus.
Thanks for your insights about this graphic! I’d love to hear how you foresee using it (or how you foresee others using it).
Aviva
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