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The Multiplying Effect of Stressors
Shanker Self-Reg® recognizes that excess stress is almost never due to a single stressor. Read more about The Self-Reg Framework here. There is always more than one stressor involved, usually multiple stressors, causing a multiplying effect of stress. What's more,...
Behaviour is Communication
This graphic, by Kristin Wiens, nicely illustrates the meaning of a well-known quote. In relation to Shanker Self-Reg®, “behaviour is communication” serves as a reminder to look “deeper,” to see what is behind behaviour that concerns us. We often see troubling...
Brighten Up a Student’s Day
The Story Behind the Graphic Good educators know that students learn best when they are calm, alert and happy. Obviously no child or adult is in this state all the time. But it is clear that educators and other adults in children’s lives play a key role in helping...
10 Ways To Develop the Habit of Self-Reg
The Story Behind the Graphic This graphic, by artist and Self-Regger Kristin Wiens, offers 10 practical strategies that will help you begin to embed Shanker Self-Reg® at the core of your educational practice. Self-control strategies like reward, consequences,...
Have Your Say, Self-Reg Wednesdays: See a Child Differently
Welcome to Have Your Say, Self-Reg Wednesdays! Every Wednesday we will be posting a new question for you to explore and reflect on with fellow Self-Reggers in the comments section below. Today's Question: What does Stuart's quote "See a child differently, see a...
The Self-Reg Show Episode 8: Why Can’t You Pour From an Empty Cup?
We have all heard the phrase “You can’t pour from an empty cup” but what does it mean to us as Self-Reggers? What does it mean for us as parents, educators, carers, and guardians of all kinds? Join Dr. Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins as they reveal the true...
Self-Reg For Dogs? A Story of Stress and Success.
Self-Reg has continued to impact on my life and in my practices: resulting in positive changes in both my personal and professional life. Usually though, when I blog about my Self-Reg aha's, they are in regards to my experiences as an educator and with other people....
Self-Reg and Grieving: Taking Time to Recognize, Reframe and Respond
By Anne Showalter In the summer of 2022, both my father and my brother passed away. In both cases, they were terminally ill, their bodies were tired, and it was time to let go. This is my story about Self-Reg and Grieving. Despite my cognitive...
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...
Self-Regulation, Self-Control, and the Practice of Shanker Self-Reg®
by Susan Hopkins EdD, Stuart Shanker DPhil, and Rebecca Leslie BEd This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 1, Issue 1 (2017) Hopkins, S., Shanker, S. & Leslie, R. (2017). Self-regulation, self-control, and the...
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 Show Episode 7: Just How Important Are Relationships Anyway?
We all have people in our lives that fill up our tank and give us the energy we need to keep going. These are important relationships. But have you ever wondered why that is? What is so special about these relationships and how can we protect and harness that energy?...
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...
“I Like You!”: A Self-Reg Look At Relationships
I had an unexpected epiphany on the last week of school before the Winter Break. It made me think a lot about self-regulation, co-regulation, and ultimately, what students might need the most from us. Where It All Began ... As you can imagine, there were many...
The Self-Reg Show Episode 6: Why Do I Struggle to Connect With Others?
Do you sometimes struggle to connect with others? Have you ever looked back and thought, “I didn’t handle that very well”? And you could have changed a whole situation by being more in-tune with someone else? But how can this happen? You’re not a bad person, you care...
The Steps of Self-Reg, a Self-Reg Book Excerpt/Les étapes de Self-Reg, extrait du livre Votre enfant, Self-Reg et vous
Extrait du livre nouvellement traduit en français, maintenant disponible à l'achat - Votre enfant, Self-Reg et vous : comprendre l'autorégulation pour vivre mieux : Self-Reg : les cinq étapes Lire les signes et recadrer le comportement.Reconnaissez les facteurs de...
