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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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For the Educational Assistants Who Hold Everything Together
There is a role in schools and early childhood settings that is often invisible in professional development conversations. The person who is frequently right there when everything escalates. Who is sitting beside the child who cannot hold it together in the large...
Learning to Notice Without Judgement
Blog by Kayley Inuksuk Mackay, a Self-Reg Foundations Certificate Program Learner. Something clicked for me during this module. I think I have been understanding a few of the steps from a purely cognitive lens. The History of the Self-Control Paradigm just landed in...
What Happens When “Soft Eyes” Are Not Enough
There is a phrase that circulates in Self-Reg communities: "soft eyes." It is a reminder to look at a child's behaviour with compassion and curiosity rather than judgment. It is a good reminder. An important one. And it is never the whole answer. At some point, most...
Co-Regulation Is Not a Calming Strategy. It Is a Relationship.
A lot of people come to Self-Reg having already heard the phrase "co-regulation." They might even feel like they know what it means: helping a child calm down, using a quiet voice, getting down to their level. Those things are not wrong. But they are the surface of...
When Effort Collapses: What My 7-Year-Old Is Teaching Me About Self-Reg
Blog by Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program Alumni Kaitie Westbrook Recognizing the Moment When Capacity Disappears There’s a moment I’ve come to recognize in my 7-year-old. It happens after he’s already started his homework, when he’s shown me he can do it. Then...
A Failure Or A Stressor?: When Asking “Why” Leads To A New Perspective
As I was driving to school today, I was doing a lot of thinking. I really appreciate a longer ride to school, as this is when I have an opportunity to reflect and it's often when I start to see things differently. Today, my reflections were about students going to the...