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Navigating the Uncharted Seas of Parenting and Caregiving: A Journey of Self-Regulation and Discovery
By Jennifer Abbanat Some Background About Our Journey I was recently asked what I wish professionals understood during our family’s search for answers, understanding and support while navigating the challenges of our son’s unique needs. Over the past decade,...
WAVE Incident Report
This is a follow up post to WAVE Self-Reg Mapping Tool The WAVE Incident Report offers a new, and much deeper and helpful, way to identify the Self-Reg roots of a serious incident. Traditionally we have tended to look at school incidents from the standpoint of...
Unraveling the Terminology of Shanker Self-Reg
In the pursuit of balance and wellness for children, youth, schools, families, and communities, understanding the principles of Shanker Self-Reg® is an invaluable asset. However, the vast array of terms and concepts associated with Self-Reg can sometimes feel...
The Lifeline That is the Self-Reg Summer Symposium
By Chantelle Hyde of The Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint Another wonderful blog post from our friends at The Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint. Thank you Chantelle for this piece! You are correct. The Self-Reg Summer Symposium is a lifeline for many,...
WAVE Self-Reg Mapping Tool
The WAVE Self-Reg Mapping tool was designed for school teams who are at the second stage (Sunrise) of the Self-Reg Haven journey. WAVE can be used to help educators build a deeper understanding of a student in order to inform ( from a Self-Reg standpoint) both...
Finding Ways To Be ALONE And TOGETHER: A Look At Restoring Energy
In October of this past school year, I started a new position as a Reading Specialist. While I knew that I brought with me a set of skills that would be beneficial in this role, I also thought about one bigger area of need that I would have to make a priority ... and...
Reframing If– by Rudyard Kipling: Why? Why Now?
By Miranda Colbert This piece was written by Miranda who is currently enrolled in our Self-Reg Facilitator's program. The Poem: If– By Rudyard Kipling(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)If you can keep your head when all about...
Celebrating the Publication of Marie Edwards’ Paper in The Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Increasing In-Service Teachers’ Willingness to be Videoed to Support Professional Learning Marie Edwards is a Self-Reg Learning Facilitator & Presenter and Assistant Professor at Acadia University Marie Edwards has been learning about Self-Reg since hearing Stuart...
The RADAR Planning Model
Becoming a Self-Reg Haven, doesn’t happen in a week or a month. It’s an ongoing process of learning, trial and error, re-evaluation, reflection, planning, and learning from experience. RADAR is an acronym we use at The MEHRIT Centre as the name of our planning process...
No Such Thing As a Bad Kid. Really?
John Hoffman reflects on Stuart Shanker’s opening talk at SRSS 2023 There's No Such Thing as a Bad Kid For years, Stuart Shanker has maintained that “there’s no such thing as a bad kid.” It’s become one of the big mantras of the Self-Reg framework. But for Stuart it...
Have Your Say: Highlights from SRSS 2023
The 9th Annual Self-Reg Summer Symposium (SRSS 2023) was a huge success! After 3 years of being virtual, we were so thrilled to connect in person again, PLUS we were thrilled to offer the online option for those who couldn't join us in person. With so many...
The Forest
By Rachel Vinette This blog was written by Rachel as part of her final project for the Self-Reg in Early Childhood Development program. Take me to the forest, To ease my mind. There's quite the storm, Going on inside. My heart is racing, I want to run....
Self-Reg Strategies in the Five Domains
Self-Reg considers stress and self-regulation across five domains of experience: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial. And, as Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins so often say, it’s important to consider possible stressors in all five domains. At the same...
The Self-Reg Journey of Lisa Taylor
Dufferin County: Sparking Self-Reg Through “Dialogue, Dialogue, Dialogue” Originally written in 2019 I was noticing a significant increase in the number of children, younger and younger, unable to cope with the simplest of things and seeming so anxiety filled and...
Have Your Say: Summer Stressors
People who live in cooler climates spend large parts of the year yearning for summer, especially when they’ve endured months of colder weather. Then, on that first summery day, the warm season seems so glorious and endless… Can’t live without summer…can’t live with...
Five Domain Conversation Starters (Adolescent Students)
This Self-Reg tool designed to use for adolescent students, provides questions that help you start a conversation to find a student’s stressors. When trying to understand troubling behaviour it’s always a good idea to start with the question WHY? Why is the student...
Five Domain Conversation Starters (Elementary Students)
This Self-Reg tool designed to use for elementary students, provides questions that help you start a conversation to find a student's stressors. When trying to understand troubling behaviour it’s always a good idea to start with the question WHY? Why is the student...
The Self-Reg Journey of Anne Connolly
Self-Reg is for everyone and its capacity for positive impact is unlimited Originally written in 2019 I’m a Special Education teacher in MIssissauga, Ontario and mom of 2 fabulous neurodiverse kids. One of my children has struggled greatly with her self-regulation...
