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What is The Shanker Method®?
The Shanker Self-Reg® framework is made up of 5 steps (aka practices) and 5 domains of stressors:
- Reframe the behaviour
- Recognize the stressors (biological, emotion, cognitive, social & prosocial)
- Reduce the stressors
- Reflect: enhance stress awareness
- Restore energy
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Self-Reg: The Basics
Shanker Self-Reg® is a process for enhancing self- regulation by understanding and dealing with stress. In Self-Reg we consider both our responses to stress and our underlying state of energy and tension when we encounter a stress. Self-Reg is based on…
Relationships First: What Does This Really Mean And What Might It Look Like?
There are many words of wisdom from both Stuart Shanker and Susan Hopkins that I think about when contemplating Self-Reg, but one point that I return to often is that…
Reframing THAT Child
Here’s a statement that I’ve heard many times before: “I wonder how I’ll feel now that my child is in the same class as THAT child.” Another school year has begun, and as parents and students start to get to know classmates and find out more about them, there always seems…
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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...
The Self-Reg Show Episode 10: Where Did My Energy Go?
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The Triune Brain
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by Susan Hopkins EdD and Elizabeth Shepherd MSc This article was published as part of Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg Volume 1, Issue 1 (2017) Hopkins, S. & Shepherd, E. (2017) Masking stress with misbehaviour: A Shanker Self-Reg Lens. Reframe: The...