The Shanker Method® is a five-step method for managing stress and a path to restoration.
It helps us reframe behaviour through the science of stress and self-regulation, understand what is happening beneath the surface and why now, and consider what we can do about it.
Shanker Self-Reg® draws on neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology, physiology, and developmental science to understand stress and self-regulation in and between our brain-body systems. Stress is anything that requires us to burn energy. When stress is excessive and restoration is insufficient, stress systems can become dysregulated, creating stress cycles that affect how we feel, think, learn, behave, and connect.
Self-Reg helps us recognize changing brain-body states, including shifts in energy and tension, and the stressors contributing to them across the five domains. It also helps us understand how our stress systems affect one another through relationships and co-regulation.
Through the Shanker Method®, we reframe behaviour through the science, recognize stressors, reduce the stress load and stress response, and enhance brain-body state awareness. Together, these steps create a pathway to restoration, including attention, motivation, rational thinking, learning, connection, resilience, and hope.
When something doesn’t make sense, Self-Reg helps us understand why, see where change is possible, and find a path toward restoration, hows and hope.
Start with the core ideas, then follow the path that matches what you want to understand next.
Understand the full picture of stress. Explore biological, emotion, cognitive, social, and prosocial stress, and how stresses across the Five Domains interact.
Explore the science beneath what we see and experience. Go deeper into stress and energy, brain-body states, self-regulation and self-control, behaviour, co-regulation, and resilience.
Put the Self-Reg lens into practice. Explore the Five Steps: Reframe, Recognize, Reduce, Reflect, and Restore, and how they create a pathway for understanding stress and finding restoration.
Learn about applied Self-Reg in practice. Explore Energy-Centred Teaching, Self-Reg Havens, and the Self-Reg Journeys for applied Self-Reg
