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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Submitted anonymously by an 8-year-old Self-Regger There was once a little girl named Sophie, and she was a great little girl. But there was a dark side to Sophie that nobody knew except for Sophie. Sophie knew that her dark side was very dangerous so she decided to...
By: Mary Ann Coleman “Our school had many presentations last year from your SEL partners. Our teachers know all they need to know about Self-Reg!” It’s great that your school has a terrific background around self-regulation! This year, we are trying for a...
By: Nadine Osborne I see him. I hear the other children shouting “Madame, Madame he is throwing the puzzle pieces”. I know he is throwing the puzzle pieces. He often throws the puzzle pieces. I am working so hard to understand why. Other teachers say “He wants...
By: Cathern Lethbridge The following poem is dedicated to children who are in the system as either foster or adoptive children. It also applies to our children of trauma who have had similar experiences in their early lives as the children of the system but haven’t...