The Shanker Method® is Stuart Shanker’s five-step method for understanding and working with stress: Reframe, Recognize, Reduce, Reflect, and Restore. The steps help us distinguish stress behaviour from misbehaviour, understand the totality of stress across the Five Domains, reduce stress and the stress response, develop awareness of changing brain-body states, and support genuine restoration. They are interconnected rather than a rigid sequence or behaviour-management program. In Reframed, Stuart makes the distinction explicit: the purpose is not to produce compliance but to understand behaviour so that restoration becomes possible. The Self-Reg shift is therefore from managing what we see to understanding and responding to what is driving it.