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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
Why Small Things Trigger Big Reactions
Featured Image: Downloadable graphic by Kristin Wiens which is included in the book Soft Eyes: Daily Reflections on Stress, Energy, and Restoring Resilience: Sept - Dec 2026 by Susan Hopkins (Author), Kristin Wiens (Author, Illustrator). A child's outsized reaction to...
What if the problem isn’t self-control?
I've always loved the marshmallow test. You probably remember it. A young child sits alone in a room with a marshmallow and hears a simple challenge: wait a few minutes without eating it, and you'll receive a second marshmallow. The experiment was remarkably simple....
How Do We Move Beyond Five Moore Minutes? A Self-Reg Look At UDL.
This summer, I am co-facilitating a Book Club on the book, One Without The Other. As I shared in this Instagram post, my position for next year has me especially interested in UDL (Universal Design For Learning). As many know, I read far less professional reads than...
Soft Eyes: A Daily Self-Reg Journal for Stress and Resilience
Soft Eyes was created by Susan Hopkins and illustrated by Kristin Wiens, grounded in Stuart Shanker's Self-Reg framework. It is a 122-day journal of daily reflections on stress, energy, and resilience, and it is the newest book from The MEHRIT Centre. You can purchase...
Where Did Yesterday’s Child Go?
A Self-Reg Science Byte Featured Image: Illustration by Kirsten Wiens, from Applied Self-Reg for Education Systems (Wiens & Hopkins, 2025), available through the Self-Reg Shop. Why children can seem like completely different people from one day to the next....
Before the Worksheet: Finding the Strategy in a Hug
Blog written by Miranda Murphy, Self-Reg Online Facilitator and Reframing Bullying learner. A few months ago, I read a reflection paper by a therapist friend, who was taking a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) workshop. He had been asked to apply the tools to...