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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
Self-Reg Across the Lifespan: Mindfulness and Self-Control
Blog by Alex Kronstein, a Self-Reg Foundations Certificate Program alumni. Alex Kronstein is an autistic advocate in the neurodiversity movement who advocates against seclusion and restraint in schools and recently completed the Self-Reg Foundations program....
You Do Not Have to Figure This Out Alone
There is something that happens in the first hour of the Self-Reg Summer Symposium that is hard to describe if you have not been there. You walk into a room, or you open your laptop if you are joining online, and you realize very quickly that the people around you...
Four Days Designed for the People Who Are Holding Everyone Else Together
Let's be honest about something. The people most likely to attend a symposium like this are the ones who care the most. The educators who are still thinking about a child on the drive home. The early childhood professionals who lie awake wondering if they handled...
When Signs Speak About Who We Are
By Danka Gula, a Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Alumni and Reframing Bullying Learner The Messages We See in Public Spaces Some time ago I noticed the following sign on the door of my local public library: “We want everyone to have a great experience when using our...
Bringing Self-Reg® to the Slopes: Reflections from Ontario’s Track 3 Program
By Kristina Schwartz, RECE a Self-Reg Learning Facilitator’s Program Alumni One of the things I love most about Shanker Self-Reg® is that it doesn’t live neatly inside one profession or one role. Once you truly embody it, it quietly reshapes how you see people...
What Does Self-Reg Look Like When It Starts to Change a Whole System?
One educator learns Self-Reg. They start seeing things differently. They share what they are noticing with a colleague. The colleague reads something. Attends a workshop. Tries it with a student. Brings it back to a team meeting. And slowly, almost without anyone...