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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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When Overwhelm Makes Everything Feel Final: The Power of Co-Regulation
Blog written by Shauna Whiteside, a Self-Reg Foundations Certificate Program alumni. I recently got a puppy and she taught me something vital: overwhelm can make us believe that the difficult feelings of the present are permanent, when in fact they are not. When I...
The Arc of the Day Is Not Just a Schedule, It Is a Stress Plan
The Arc of the Day Matters More Than We Think Picture a kindergarten classroom at 2:00 in the afternoon. Or a middle school hallway right after lunch on a Friday. Or a Grade 3 class in the third week of November. If you have spent time in schools or early childhood...
What Behaviour Is Really Telling Us: A Closer Look at the Five Domains
Think about a student you have found yourself puzzling over. Maybe they shut down mid-task for no apparent reason. Maybe they explode over something that seems tiny. Maybe they are just... unreachable some days, even when everything looks fine on the surface.Self-Reg...
Stillness Spoke Louder
Blog by Self-Reg Learning Facilitator Certificate Program Alumni, Stela Haralala The other day, I was walking by a lake. It was quiet, the sun was low, and the water was still enough to mirror the trees along the edge. I wanted to capture a photo: the light, the...
The Most Important Thing You Bring Into the Room Is Your State
Here is something that does not get said enough in professional development for educators and early childhood professionals: the most powerful tool you have is not a strategy. It's not a protocol. It isn't even a relationship technique. It is your state Not your mood....
Why Everything Feels So Hard Right Now (And What We Can Actually Do About It)
If you have been working with children and youth lately, you already know something is different. The outbursts are bigger. The shutdowns are lasting longer. The kids who used to bounce back now seem to stay stuck. And the adults supporting them? Many are running on...