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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…
What is Self-Regulation—Really?
Did you hear the one about two psychologists and a philosopher who searched The Google for the true meaning of self-regulation and found 447 definitions? This is not the first line of a bad joke. It actually happened. Interestingly, the definition of self-regulation that TMC uses…
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MOST RECENT SELF-REG 101 BLOGS
Ways to Restore Energy
Learning how to “do” Self-Reg is multi-faceted. It includes learning and understanding the science and theory and then using that knowledge to develop new ways of seeing, understanding and responding to behaviour and reactions in others (and ourselves). That is an...
Have Your Say: Reducing Stressors
When we think of good stress management the word coping often springs to mind, instead of reducing stressors. Yet coping has traditionally implied a kind of self-control—powering our way through stressful periods with “grit’ and “fortitude.” That kind of coping...
Examples of Stressors in the 5 Domains
People tend to think of a stressor as something—a situation, experience or stimulus—that is distressful. However, that’s not always the case. Some fairly routine stimuli are stressors even though we don’t think of them as such. Why? Because what all stressors having...
In The Moment Ways to Lighten the Stress Load
Learning how to “do” Self-Reg is multi-faceted. It includes learning and understanding the science and theory and then using that knowledge to develop new ways of seeing, understanding and responding to behaviour and reactions in others (and ourselves). That is an...
Have Your Say: Prosocial Domain
We usually think of the Prosocial Domain in positive terms. It’s the domain to some of the most noble human attributes: empathy, kindness, caring, helping others. Prosocial attributes are what make us truly good. Yes, but… Enter the Prosocial Stressors Prosocial...
Self-Reg Rubric for Emerging Self-Reg Learners
One key aspect of learning is being able to track your progress. This Self-Reg Rubric for emerging learners, can help with that. "How and I doing?" "Am I spinning my wheels?" "Am I making real progress (if so how much)?" Our free, downloadable Self-Reg Rubric is a...
