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WHAT IS SELF-REG?
Shanker Self-Reg® is a process, grounded in new science, for developing growth-promoting modes of self-regulation, dealing with stress, and restoring.
If you’ve tried everything as an educator, parent, or service provider to support children, teens and their families, Self-Reg can help. Learn how to read, reframe, and respond to behaviour, strong emotions, dysregulation, and much more.
Self-Reg is a pathway to enhancing resilience, motivation, learning, & well-being.
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SELF-REG 101 FEATURES
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…
No Such Thing as a Bad Kid
Children have such different ways of responding to being over-stressed. What all children have in common is that they behave in a characteristic way when they are over-stressed: what becomes a sort of patterned response. But what markedly distinguishes between them, is…
Self-Reg Global
Self-Reg Global is a distinct division of The MEHRIT Centre that has been established to fulfill TMC’s strategic directions within an international context.
Our goal is to produce the same high-quality Shanker Self-Reg® learning resources and establish TMC as the knowledge hub for audiences around the world.
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MOST RECENT SELF-REG 101 BLOGS
The Role of Self-Reg in Resilience
In a world brimming with uncertainties and challenges, the ability to bounce back from adversity is a superpower we all desire. This superpower is what we call resilience, and is a quality we all wish to instil in ourselves and our children. It's a powerful shield...
Exploring the “What Is…” Series of Self-Reg Videos
Introducing the "What Is..." series of Self-Reg videos. The collection can help shed light on, and demystifies, some essential concepts related to Shanker Self-Reg®. What is... Self-Reg? A cornerstone video in the series, Stuart Shanker defines Self-Reg as the ability...
DIY Ways to Restore
One very important part of Self-Reg, one that is easy to overlook at times, is the importance of restoration. Reducing stress is a biggie, obviously. But mindful self-regulation also involves being able to restore the energy that we burn, and ease the tension that...
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...
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...
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...
