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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
Five Domain Conversation Starters (Adolescent Students)
This Self-Reg tool designed to use for adolescent students, provides questions that help you start a conversation to find a student’s stressors. When trying to understand troubling behaviour it’s always a good idea to start with the question WHY? Why is the student...
Five Domain Conversation Starters (Elementary Students)
This Self-Reg tool designed to use for elementary students, provides questions that help you start a conversation to find a student's stressors. When trying to understand troubling behaviour it’s always a good idea to start with the question WHY? Why is the student...
Have Your Say: Why and Why Now?
Self-Reg has a number of popular slogan mostly quotes, beliefs and questions from Stuart Shanker. Here are some of them; “No such thing as a bad kid”, “See A child differently and you'll see a different child.” Another oft-repeated Self-Reg phrase is “Why and Why...
Cueing Safety
One of the cornerstones of Self-Reg thinking and practice is safety. We're not just safety from physical danger or bullying, but a holistic concept of safety that is felt emotionally and also felt in the brain and body. We call this cueing safety. Neuroscience...
Past Self-Reg Mini Talks: I Shoulda Known Better, with Lorraine Purgret – 2021
“You know better than that!” How often did adults say that to you when you were a kid? The thing is, yeah, maybe children sometimes do “know better.” But they don’t always do better do they? Heck, adults who know better don’t always do better. Why is that? Short...
Have Your Say: Self-Reg Lessons Learned
“Doing” Self-Reg is an ongoing, lifelong process of learning about stress, stressors, stress behaviour and how to reduce stress and restore energy, along with inter-related practices for maintaining a healthy energy/tension balance. There are many Self-Reg lessons...
