It’s been my very great privilege to be the Manager of Research at the Self Regulation Institute (SRI) since 2017, and to be part of the organization’s ongoing imagining, thoughtful evolution, [...]
What a fascinating and transformative landscape self-regulation is! In fact, so fascinating for me that I resigned from a 27 year career in education to take on a PhD to research it myself. [...]
One of the most important concepts in Self-Reg is calm: knowing what calm really feels like, and how to “ get back to calm,” as some Self-Reg practitioners say. One might think that Dr. Shanker’s [...]
This past Fall 2018 semester, I undertook the exciting project of excavating the important research that went into the development of Stuart Shanker’s Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) [...]
In her influential chapter “Gratitude, like other positive emotions, broaden-and-builds” (2004) Barbara Fredrickson developed her ‘Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.’ Positive [...]
