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Introducing Self-Reg at a Glance: A Desktop Reference Guide
Sometimes, in the middle of a busy day, we don’t need more information. We need something that helps us reconnect with what we already know. We’re excited to introduce Stuart Shanker’s Self-Reg at a Glance: A Desktop Reference Guide, a handy flip-book that brings...
Self-Reg in Practice: Join Us for Our Fall 2026 Webinar Series
What does Self-Reg look like when we bring it into the real, wonderfully complicated moments of our work with children, youth and one another? This fall, The MEHRIT Centre is bringing together members of our presentation team for Self-Reg in Practice, a seven-part...
Where Did the Empathy Go?
Blog written by Elisabeth Han a Self-Reg Full Foundations Certificate Program and Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program alumni Bullying causes real harm. Children who are bullied need safety, protection, and support. Harmful behaviour cannot simply be ignored or...
Join Us for the Soft Eyes Journal Club
We’re getting ready for the Soft Eyes Journal Club, and we’ve created a free companion space to help you follow along with us from September through December Join Susan Hopkins and Kristin Wiens live on Facebook every Monday at 7 p.m. Eastern as we spend some time...
A Reflection on Screen Time
Written by Lisa Engstrom, who has completed the following Shanker Self-Reg® learning with The MEHRIT Centre: Full Foundations Program, Enhancing Resilience in Children and Youth, the Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program, Living, Learning & Linking Certificate...
Our 2027 Self-Reg Course Calendar is Here!
What Will You Discover in 2027? Your Self-Reg Learning Journey Starts Here Our 2027 Self-Reg Course Calendar has arrived! A new year brings new opportunities to learn, connect, reflect, and deepen our understanding of stress and regulation. Whether Self-Reg is brand...
What Is The Real Problem? A Wonder That Reframed Behaviour.
For a couple of weeks in the summer, I am a site lead and coordinator for our Board Summer Camp. Just as I started going into classrooms today today to partake in some of the summer learning, I received a message from one of the instructors. She mentioned that a...
Why Small Things Trigger Big Reactions
Featured Image: Downloadable graphic by Kristin Wiens which is included in the book Soft Eyes: Daily Reflections on Stress, Energy, and Restoring Resilience: Sept - Dec 2026 by Susan Hopkins (Author), Kristin Wiens (Author, Illustrator). A child's outsized reaction to...
What if the problem isn’t self-control?
I've always loved the marshmallow test. You probably remember it. A young child sits alone in a room with a marshmallow and hears a simple challenge: wait a few minutes without eating it, and you'll receive a second marshmallow. The experiment was remarkably simple....
How Do We Move Beyond Five Moore Minutes? A Self-Reg Look At UDL.
This summer, I am co-facilitating a Book Club on the book, One Without The Other. As I shared in this Instagram post, my position for next year has me especially interested in UDL (Universal Design For Learning). As many know, I read far less professional reads than...
Soft Eyes: A Daily Self-Reg Journal for Stress and Resilience
Soft Eyes was created by Susan Hopkins and illustrated by Kristin Wiens, grounded in Stuart Shanker's Self-Reg framework. It is a 122-day journal of daily reflections on stress, energy, and resilience, and it is the newest book from The MEHRIT Centre. You can purchase...
Where Did Yesterday’s Child Go?
A Self-Reg Science Byte Featured Image: Illustration by Kirsten Wiens, from Applied Self-Reg for Education Systems (Wiens & Hopkins, 2025), available through the Self-Reg Shop. Why children can seem like completely different people from one day to the next....
Screen-Time Meltdowns
The WiFi gets shut off in the middle of a game. Within seconds, a child who seemed perfectly calm is yelling, throwing the controller, or slamming a door. The adult is left wondering what just happened. Two minutes ago, everything seemed fine. Now the whole evening...
What I Learned About Co-Regulation When the Wi-Fi Went Down
Written by Jamie Barker, Operations & Executive Coordinator at The MEHRIT Centre. Jamie recently celebrated nine years with the organization and was reminded once again at SRSS 2026 of the power of co-regulation. One of my favourite moments from the 2026 Self-Reg...
Seeing the Stress Behind Behaviour: A Self-Reg Haven at Recess
Blog written by Kirsten Binstock, Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT) and Reframing Bullying learner. In my role as a Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT), I am working with a student whose behaviour was being viewed through a traditional "discipline" lens....
Before the Worksheet: Finding the Strategy in a Hug
Blog written by Miranda Murphy, Self-Reg Online Facilitator and Reframing Bullying learner. A few months ago, I read a reflection paper by a therapist friend, who was taking a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) workshop. He had been asked to apply the tools to...
Self-Reg Across the Lifespan: Mindfulness and Self-Control
Blog by Alex Kronstein, a Self-Reg Foundations Certificate Program alumni. Alex Kronstein is an autistic advocate in the neurodiversity movement who advocates against seclusion and restraint in schools and recently completed the Self-Reg Foundations program....
You Do Not Have to Figure This Out Alone
There is something that happens in the first hour of the Self-Reg Summer Symposium that is hard to describe if you have not been there. You walk into a room, or you open your laptop if you are joining online, and you realize very quickly that the people around you...