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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
When Stress Makes it Harder to Listen
From Susan Hopkins, EdD | Executive Director This reflection was originally published in The MEHRIT Centre newsletter. Sign up for our newsletter to receive Susan’s latest reflections, Self-Reg insights, and updates directly in your inbox. On listening without...
Introducing Self-Reg at a Glance: A Desktop Reference Guide
Sometimes, in the middle of a busy day, we don’t need more information. We need something that helps us reconnect with what we already know. We’re excited to introduce Stuart Shanker’s Self-Reg at a Glance: A Desktop Reference Guide, a handy flip-book that brings...
Self-Reg in Practice: Join Us for Our Fall 2026 Webinar Series
What does Self-Reg look like when we bring it into the real, wonderfully complicated moments of our work with children, youth and one another? This fall, The MEHRIT Centre is bringing together members of our presentation team for Self-Reg in Practice, a seven-part...
A Reflection on Screen Time
Written by Lisa Engstrom, who has completed the following Shanker Self-Reg® learning with The MEHRIT Centre: Full Foundations Program, Enhancing Resilience in Children and Youth, the Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program, Living, Learning & Linking Certificate...
Self-Reg Course Calendars 2026-2027
Explore our Self-Reg Course Calendars 2026–2027 to see upcoming facilitated programs and start dates. Looking to plan ahead for the rest of 2026? Dive deeper into our facilited courses here
What Is The Real Problem? A Wonder That Reframed Behaviour.
For a couple of weeks in the summer, I am a site lead and coordinator for our Board Summer Camp. Just as I started going into classrooms today today to partake in some of the summer learning, I received a message from one of the instructors. She mentioned that a...