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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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What Is The Real Problem? A Wonder That Reframed Behaviour.
For a couple of weeks in the summer, I am a site lead and coordinator for our Board Summer Camp. Just as I started going into classrooms today today to partake in some of the summer learning, I received a message from one of the instructors. She mentioned that a...
Why Small Things Trigger Big Reactions
Featured Image: Downloadable graphic by Kristin Wiens which is included in the book Soft Eyes: Daily Reflections on Stress, Energy, and Restoring Resilience: Sept - Dec 2026 by Susan Hopkins (Author), Kristin Wiens (Author, Illustrator). A child's outsized reaction to...
What if the problem isn’t self-control?
I've always loved the marshmallow test. You probably remember it. A young child sits alone in a room with a marshmallow and hears a simple challenge: wait a few minutes without eating it, and you'll receive a second marshmallow. The experiment was remarkably simple....
How Do We Move Beyond Five Moore Minutes? A Self-Reg Look At UDL.
This summer, I am co-facilitating a Book Club on the book, One Without The Other. As I shared in this Instagram post, my position for next year has me especially interested in UDL (Universal Design For Learning). As many know, I read far less professional reads than...
Screen-Time Meltdowns
The WiFi gets shut off in the middle of a game. Within seconds, a child who seemed perfectly calm is yelling, throwing the controller, or slamming a door. The adult is left wondering what just happened. Two minutes ago, everything seemed fine. Now the whole evening...
Seeing the Stress Behind Behaviour: A Self-Reg Haven at Recess
Blog written by Kirsten Binstock, Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT) and Reframing Bullying learner. In my role as a Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT), I am working with a student whose behaviour was being viewed through a traditional "discipline" lens....