Parents and educators everywhere are asking the same question: What on earth is going on with our kids? That’s pretty much what our Self-Reg Summer Symposium (July 4-6, 2023) is all about this year: what is going on, deep in the brain, that’s causing an eruption of...

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Reframing High Math Anxiety: Avoiding the Perils of a Victorian Paradigm
By Stuart Shanker This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 2, Issue 1 (2018) Shanker, S. (2018). Reframing High Math Anxiety: Avoiding the Perils of a Victorian Paradigm: Stemming the Divide. Reframe: The Journal of Self-Reg,...
Editorial, REFRAMED: The Journal of Self-Reg
By Stuart Shanker This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 2, Issue 1 (2018) Shanker, S. (2018). Editorial Reframe: The Journal of Self-Reg, 2(1), 4-5. In Culture and Value, Wittgenstein expressed an idea that...
Hide and Seek: The Challenge of Understanding the Full Complexity of Stress and Stress-Reactivity
by Stuart Shanker, DPhil and Travis Francis, HBASc This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 1, Issue 1 (2017) Shanker, S & Francis, T. (2017). Hide and seek: The challenge of understanding the full complexity of...
Self-Reg and Reframing
by Stuart Shanker DPhil and Casey Burgess MA This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 1, Issue 1 (2017) Shanker, S. & Burgess, C. (2017). Self-reg and reframing. Reframe: The Journal of Self-Reg, 1(1), 28-39. Abstract Shanker...
Sparking Reframed: A Letter from the Editor
By Stuart Shanker, DPhil This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 1, Issue 1 (2017) Shanker,S. (2017). Sparking Reframed: A Letter from the Editor Stuart Shanker Reframe: The Journal of Self-Reg 1(1) ,4-7. A paradigm revolution,...
The Self-Reg Framework: The Prosocial Domain
The Prosocial Domain: supporting self-regulation across the five domains Shanker Self-Reg® helps us consider self-regulation and stress across five interrelated domains: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial. In this blog we are going to...
Good Stress Gone Bad: Conditions in Transforming Stress from Negative to Positive
By Stuart Shanker, DPhil and Elizabeth Shepherd MSc This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 1, Issue 1 (2017) Shanker, S. & Shepherd, E. (2017). Good stress gone bad: transition conditions in transforming stress...
The Self-Reg Framework: The Social Domain
The Social Domain: supporting self-regulation across the five domains Shanker Self-Reg® helps us consider self-regulation and stress across five interrelated domains: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial. In this blog we are going to explore the...
The Self-Reg Framework: The Cognitive Domain
The Cognitive Domain: supporting self-regulation across the five domains Shanker Self-Reg® helps us consider self-regulation and stress across five interrelated domains: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial. In this blog we are going to explore...
The Self-Reg Framework: Emotion Domain
The Five Domains of Self-Reg: Emotion Domain Shanker Self-Reg® helps us consider self-regulation and stress across five interrelated domains: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial. In this blog we are going to explore the Emotion Domain. This...
The Self-Reg Framework: Biological Domain
The Five Domains of Self-Reg: Biological Domain Shanker Self-Reg® helps us consider self-regulation and stress across five interrelated domains: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial. The first domain we are going to explore is the Biological...
The Self-Reg Framework: The Five Domains of Stress
The Shanker Self-Reg® Framework for self-regulation: the five domains The Self-Reg Framework Self-regulation refers to the way an individual deals with stress, in all its many forms, and then recovers from the energy expended. An individual (child or adult)...
Words Matter: Updates to the Triune Brain
Stuart and Susan discuss an important change in Self-Reg terminology For more than five years the Triune Brain has been a foundational concept in the scientific underpinnings of Self-Reg. That’s because this theory—or perhaps, more aptly, this metaphor—is so helpful...
Dear Global Self-Reggers: Anticipating SRSS 2022
The following is a letter to Self-Reggers around the world from Stuart Shanker. It is part of a series of letters he writes from time to time, about every day realities and dealing with the stresses these things can cause. We feel these letters help to connect us. To...
The Fourth Strategy
It’s that time of the year when the hook modellers have come out in full force. And oh my, have they ever gotten good at their craft. All of the psychological tricks are there: the appeal to scarcity; the suggestion of crowd behaviour; the advice of some supposed...
Self-Reg for Teens
What is Self-Reg? Self-Reg is a way to understand and improve self-regulation by understanding and dealing with stress better. In Self-Reg we look at how we respond to stress and how those responses are related to our tension and energy levels. Self-Regulation...
Self-Reg Reset 2021: My Goal For This Year’s Symposium
I love the theme Susan and the team have chosen for this year’s Self-Reg Summer Symposium: “Calm, Kind and Capable, A Self-Reg Reset for Educators and Caregivers.” So much of our work is infant, child, and teen oriented that it is all too easy to overlook our own...