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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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APPLIED SELF-REG FEATURES
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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MOST RECENT APPLY SELF-REG BLOGS
Past SRSS Mini Talks: Sharing the New Mom Journey, Claire Zlobin 2021
Our series of Self-Reg mini-talks from past Self-Reg Summer Symposiums continues. One of the more innovative Self-Reg Talks from SRSS 2021 was delivered by Claire Zlobin of Richmond Hill, Ontario. Claire is a fierce, and very effective and influential, champion for...
Have Your Say: Stressors with Travelling
Travelling is stressful. Some of that stress is positive: excitement, anticipation, the wow factor. Even though these are positive experiences they are still all stressors because they cause us to burn energy in order maintain a sense of balance and be at our...
Self-Reg Summer Symposium 2023: In Person Again! Yay!
I gotta tell ya – I don’t get out that much. I’ve been a work-at-home type for almost 40 years, and my active social circle is relatively small. Add COVID-related social restrictions and caution to that, and you can see how my face-to-face social contact has been...
Past SRSS Mini Talks: Reframing Video Games, with Vicki Parnell and son Calum – 2022
We continue our series of Self-Reg Talks from past summer symposiums with this two-person discussion of video gaming by Vicki Parnell and her adult son Calum. If you’ve read or heard Stuart Shanker thoughts on video games you’ll know that he’s not a fan. He’s argued...
Doing Hard Things: A Look At Positive Stress & Self-Reg
The more that I read and the more that I learn about Self-Reg, the more that I see it through all of my interactions, decisions, and experiences each day. This is a story about doing hard things, with the help of Co-regulation and Self-Reg. How It Started Recently, a...
We All Need to Start Asking Why
Parents and educators everywhere are asking the same question: What on earth is going on with our kids? That’s pretty much what our Self-Reg Summer Symposium (July 4-6, 2023) is all about this year: what is going on, deep in the brain, that’s causing an eruption of...