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Self-Reg Professional Learning Series

The Shanker Method® 101

The five Self-Reg steps that help us understand behaviour — and respond in ways that truly help.
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• Format: Self-directed • On-demand • Learn at your own pace
• Length: 6 modules (~4 hours total)
• Who You'll See: Susan Hopkins (EdD)
• Certificate: Digital certificate of completion
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Includes lifetime access to all videos, transcripts, and reflection tools
For groups larger than 25, please contact info@self-reg.ca

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Why This Course

In our homes, schools, and communities, we all come up against behaviours that leave us asking: Why? Why now? A child who melts down over something small. A student who checks out completely. A teen who just can’t seem to care.

The Shanker Method® 101 introduces the five Self-Reg practices — Reframe, Recognize, Reduce, Reflect, and Restore — the practical method for understanding what’s really going on beneath behaviour. You’ll see how excess stress changes how the brain and body function and how this method helps bring balance, connection, and learning back online.

Through stories, science, and reflection activities, Susan Hopkins (EdD) shows how Self-Reg shifts our focus from reacting to behaviour to understanding the stress behind it — in classrooms, early years, family life, and beyond.

This isn’t about managing kids or finding quick fixes. It’s about learning a process for seeing behaviour differently, reducing overload, and supporting real recovery.

Inside You’ll Find

  • Core modules covering the five practices of the Shanker Method® — Reframe, Recognize, Reduce, Reflect, and Restore.
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  • Science you can use: Learn how excess stress affects the brain-body system and why understanding stress states helps both adults and kids recover and reconnect.
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  • Applied to real-life contexts: Explore practical examples from classrooms, early childhood, family life, and everyday interactions that show Self-Reg in action.
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  • Stories and reflection tools: Case examples, short videos, and guided reflections that bring the method to life and help you apply it in your own context.

You’ll Walk Away With

  • A clear understanding of the five Self-Reg practices — the method for self-regulation in action
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  • Insight into what’s beneath children’s and teens’ behaviour — and what truly helps
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  • Tools to lower stress, restore energy, and strengthen relationships
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  • A hopeful, science-based way to bring balance and understanding into daily life

Who Might Be Interested

   Educators, early-years professionals, school leaders, and support staff who want a method that helps them respond to student behaviour with clarity and confidence.
   Parents and caregivers looking for practical ways to navigate meltdowns, shutdowns, pushback, anxiety, or everyday behavioural struggles at home.
   Community, health, and mental-health professionals who support children and teens — in clinics, homes, community programs, or alongside school teams — and want a science-based lens for understanding behaviour.
   Anyone exploring Self-Reg as a practical framework for behaviour, well-being, and human development.
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Hosted by Susan Hopkins (EdD), The Shanker Method® 101 blends science, stories, and real-life application to help you understand behaviour through the Self-Reg lens — and respond in ways that restore connection, energy, and hope.
Meet the Presenter

Susan Hopkins

Executive Director, The MEHRIT Centre 
CEO, Self-Reg Global
In the past two-plus decades, Susan has worked in numerous educational contexts and roles: early years, K-12 and post-secondary, teacher, vice-principal, curriculum developer, and inclusion coordinator.
Patrick Jones - Course author