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APPLYING SELF-REG
You’ve started your learning journey and begun reading and reframing misbehaviour as stress behaviour. You can recognize examples of stressors across the 5 domains of stress; biological, emotion, cognitive, social & prosocial. Your awareness of stress states and personalized ways to find your calm and restore energy is growing. Now the question is…
How can you bring Self-Reg to others?
Self-Reg can be the foundational framework for schools, early education and care, or parenting. Or interwoven with many areas of your work such as social-emotional learning, mental health and well-being, curriculum and pedagogy, safe schools, and inclusion. Shared learning helps develop common language and understandings while building capacity and cohesion.
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Self-Reg, Social Justice & Democracy
The Future Lies in the Hands of Self-Reg Parents, Schools, and Communities. I first started thinking about social justice and democracy when I was 16 years old. I had just attended a political rally where Pierre Elliot Trudeau talked about…
The Self-Reg View: Calm Begets Calm
The reality is that one cannot will oneself to stay calm. One cannot simply choose, let alone force oneself, to be calm. This is precisely where the first step of Self-Reg—that of “reframing” —comes in.
How Do You Change A Trajectory? Duty Woes Through A Self-Reg Lens.
A story for you about a trajectory needing to be changed. A few weeks ago, I was on duty outside when a student came to me with a problem. She was really upset about how another student…
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When Stress Makes it Harder to Listen
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Introducing Self-Reg at a Glance: A Desktop Reference Guide
Sometimes, in the middle of a busy day, we don’t need more information. We need something that helps us reconnect with what we already know. We’re excited to introduce Stuart Shanker’s Self-Reg at a Glance: A Desktop Reference Guide, a handy flip-book that brings...
Self-Reg in Practice: Join Us for Our Fall 2026 Webinar Series
What does Self-Reg look like when we bring it into the real, wonderfully complicated moments of our work with children, youth and one another? This fall, The MEHRIT Centre is bringing together members of our presentation team for Self-Reg in Practice, a seven-part...
Join Us for the Soft Eyes Journal Club
We’re getting ready for the Soft Eyes Journal Club, and we’ve created a free companion space to help you follow along with us from September through December Join Susan Hopkins and Kristin Wiens live on Facebook every Monday at 7 p.m. Eastern as we spend some time...
A Reflection on Screen Time
Written by Lisa Engstrom, who has completed the following Shanker Self-Reg® learning with The MEHRIT Centre: Full Foundations Program, Enhancing Resilience in Children and Youth, the Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program, Living, Learning & Linking Certificate...
Self-Reg Course Calendars 2026-2027
Explore our Self-Reg Course Calendars 2026–2027 to see upcoming facilitated programs and start dates. Looking to plan ahead for the rest of 2026? Dive deeper into our facilited courses here