Parenting through a Self-Regulation Lens

SESSION 1: Science Behind Self-Reulation

• What is stress, eustress and distress?
• How does stress relate to behaviour outbursts
• (stress behaviour vs misbehaviour)
• Interoception – what is it and why is it important
• The difference between quiet and calm

SESSION 2: Self-Regulation and Bullying

• Behaviours that may look like bullying
• Co-regulation to support victim and alleged bully
• How to create learning and agency through the experience

SESSION 3: What is Co-regulation and Why it is Important?

• Parenting 101 – How do we learn to parent
• Evolutionary understanding of our stress response system and how this impacts co-regulation
• What we can do when dysregulated and how to lend our calm in their storm