Presentations, Workshops & Mentoring

Self-Reg is a framework and method for improving self-regulation by understanding and dealing with stress. This webinar will introduce Self-Reg and some of the brain/body science that informs our understanding of stress and how to it. The webinar will also:

• Explore the difference between misbehaviour and stress behaviour.
• Introduce the 5 Practices of Self-Reg (Reframe, Recognize, Reduce, Reflect & Restore)
• Outline how stress affects us across five domains of experience: biological, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial.

Recommended Presenters: Any of our presenters would be happy to bring an Intro to Self-Reg to your group, we instead recommend presenters based on your context, e.g. for early years we would recommend Susan Hopkins, Crystal Carbino & Angie Rosati. For school boards and staff, we recommend Susan Hopkins or Kim Smith.

Although Self-Reg is often described as a method, it starts with relationships. Human development, self-regulation, social-emotional learning and well-being all take place in the context of relationships. This webinar will introduce concepts such as

• Co-regulation, the Interbrain and limbic resonance to help participants understand subtle, but crucially important modes of communication that affect caregivers’ capacity to connect and communicate with children.
• The role of relationships is to help children feel safe, not just safe from physical harm, but also a deep sense of emotional and social safety that is felt in the body as well as the brain.
• The importance of lending our calm to children.

Dr. Shanker says, “The well-being of children is inseparable from the well-being of the critical adults in their lives.” And, indeed, the biggest early lesson from TMC’s online courses was that, while most people come to TMC’s online courses hoping to improve their work with children, the first lesson they learn is the importance of dealing with their own stress. This webinar will show caregivers:

• How to recognize and address their own stress and well-being.
• Self-Reg strategies that will help them more consistently be the confident, kind, understanding and effective caregivers they want to be.