By: Jessica Chisholm I would like to acknowledge the elders for their teachings as I share and continue to learn on our journey of Self-Reg. As an ECE, I’m able to provide support to children with many developmental approaches, however the most successful approaches...

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The Magic of Not Knowing
By: Louise Lamont We live in a world of duality where we use the language of opposites to describe our experiences and phenomena. In its essence and simplicity, the duality paradigm is endless in its descriptions of light/dark, good/evil, black/white, right/wrong,...
Developing Stress Awareness: My Mother’s and My Own
By: Nancy Niessen As I was pondering writing a post about Step 4 of Shanker Self-Reg, I began to reflect on stressors in the different domains for both my mother and I on the days she goes to medical appointments, when there are many stressors for both of us. This got...
How Many Children in the Dramatic Play Centre?
By: Lisa Cranston, Ed.D. When I first began teaching kindergarten many years ago, my teaching partner and I spent the summer setting up the classroom with a wide variety of learning centres – block play, dramatic play, water table, book centre, playdough table, and so...
Temper-Mindful: The Sweet & Subtle Wisdom of Chocolate
By: Susan Plummer Over the years I have tried to meditate many times using various techniques, including listening to tapes and soothing music, looking at a flickering candle, using alternate nostril breathing and many more. I always found that I felt more...
Will Self-Reg Fix My Relationship With…?
By: Nancy Niessen Shortly after writing my first blog for TMC, Reframing is Ageless, I had a challenging encounter with a particular relative. The big emotions I was feeling were an indicator of my stress level. A friend came to visit the next day and...
12 Self-Reg Misconceptions
Do you think you understand Self-Reg? Are you sure? Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins have come across a number of misconceptions about Self-Reg over the past few years. They deconstruct 12 of them in this video blog series. You can watch the videos at the links...
Caregiver Burnout: Recognizing the Mounting Stressors
By: Nancy Niessen I don’t know a lot about caregiver burnout when it comes to elderly family members. It’s something I plan to read up on because I feel like I’m experiencing it these days. As I wrote about in my last blog for TMC, Reframing is Ageless, I am...
The Girl In Red: Reframing a Management Strategy
By: Dr. Laura Cesaroni This happened recently, with a 7 year old girl. I asked, “How was your day at school?” Truly I wasn’t attending closely, looking down, and busy taking notes. Silence. I pause, this feels different. I look up. Her eyes were...
Self-Reg Gets an Enthusiastic Response in New Zealand
By: Norah Fryer I have known and learned from Stuart Shanker for 10 years. I feel fortunate to have been to be influenced by Stuart, and I share his belief that our ability to engage in respectful, trusting and reciprocal relationships is at the heart of our...
Reframing Is Ageless
By: Nancy Niessen When I began formally learning about Self-Regulation I was an educator in the public school system looking for ways to better support my students. In particular, I wanted to find more ways to help students with perceived behavioural needs. I quickly...
Our Top 10 Self-Reg Blog Posts of 2017
As we come to the end of another calendar year, Stuart Shanker, Susan Hopkins, and The MEHRIT Centre team have been reflecting with gratitude on our ongoing Self-Reg journey and the many lovely lessons learned along the way from our Self-Reg community. As we shared in...
Crisis Averted, Trajectory Changed
By: Cathern Lethbridge Four years ago, I was following a Twitter feed that literally changed my career and my life. I started seeing people posting tweets with photos of slides from a man talking about stressors and behaviour and reframing and something called...
The Head, The Hands and The Heart: In Conversation with John (Jack) Miller
Reflections on Well-Being In Ontario K-12 Education: Part II By: Stefani Burosch It’s funny how sometimes we get introduced to people or ideas at just the right time or at just the right moment in our own personal journey where we find ourselves seeking understanding,...
Who We Are, Where We Come From
Reflections on Well-Being in Ontario K-12 Education By: Stefani Burosch “Literacy is the ability to share our life story, by whatever means that we are able do that.” – David Bouchard, Acclaimed Métis Author, Literacy Advocate and Member of the Order of Canada I have...
Hearts and Rainbows: The Brain’s Beautifully Imperfect Reward System
By: Lindsay Pearson I am a professional who has spent the last 12 years immersing myself into the world of early childhood education, honing my skills and focusing all my efforts on helping teachers and caregivers support social-emotional development in early...
Mindful Co-Regulation: A Mother-Daughter’s Journey
With Susan Hopkins, Corinne Catalano and Martel Catalano The ‘A Chat Across Borders’ video series aims to discuss the culture of heightened stress that we find ourselves living in today, and how Shanker Self-Reg can help us find calm in such stressful times. This...
Emotional Dysregulation in Children: The Problem and How to Intervene
By: Ira Glovinsky of the Glovinsky Center for the Child and Family We are seeing an “epidemic” of emotional dysregulation in very young children resulting in parent-child relationship disturbances as well as expulsion from child-care environments, preschools, and...