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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SERIES

Self-Reg Havens:
5 Look Fors

Move from reacting to every flare-up to reading the patterns shaping your class.
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• Format: Self-directed • On-demand • Learn at your own pace
• Length: 6 modules (~4–5 hours total) 
• Who You'll See: Susan Hopkins (EdD)
• Certificate: Digital certificate of completion
• Includes: Lifetime access to all videos, transcripts, resources, and the Haven Planning Workbook
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For groups larger than 25, please contact info@self-reg.ca

Individual Access Here $45

Why This Course

Some days in the classroom feel like whack-a-mole — one issue settles and another one pops up. It’s exhausting, reactive, and keeps us locked in managing moments instead of supporting learning.  The Look-Fors help us break that cycle.

They shift us away from focusing on individual behaviours and toward understanding the group as a living system — the patterns, stressors, and energy shifts that influence everyone in the room.

Instead of asking “What’s wrong with this student?” we start seeing: 
What’s happening in the space? What’s happening in the group? What’s driving these waves?
And suddenly the noise makes sense.
This isn’t behaviour management. 
It’s a Self-Reg lens grounded in neuroscience and the classroom dynamics. 

It shows us where safety, belonging, balance, capability, or trust might be wobbling — and where one small adjustment could settle the whole room.  
When we understand the dynamics underneath the behaviour, teaching gets lighter, students settle more easily, and we finally get back to the work we came here to do.

Inside You’ll Find

Six applied modules that use the Five Look-Fors as a lens, not a checklist. They don’t tell you what to do. They help you read the dynamics of the whole group by noticing the subtle brain–body shifts that shape behaviour, energy, and connection. This is the neuroscience of the classroom in motion—clearer, calmer, and closer to a Haven.
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Module 1: Introduction – The Self-Reg Haven Lens
How the Five Look-Fors help you see the classroom as a dynamic neurobiological system, not a collection of individual problems. You’ll explore how stress states, energy levels, and relational signals ripple through a group and why understanding these patterns changes everything.
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Module 2: Safe
How safety shows up across the room—physical, emotional, social, cultural. You’ll learn to spot tiny shifts in nervous system activation: the cues that safety is strong and the moments when it starts to thin, and what this tells you about the stressors shaping the space.
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Module 3: Rooted
Belonging as a brain–body state. Who feels anchored in the group? When do those roots deepen or loosen? You’ll see how rootedness protects energy, reduces limbic tension, and fuels the capacity to learn and connect.
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Module 4: Balanced
How balance emerges when stress across the five domains is manageable: steadier focus, smoother emotions, flexible thinking, cooperative peer interactions, compassionate responses. You’ll track how these signals rise and fall as students’ stress loads shift, revealing the classroom’s overall regulatory state.
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Module 5: Capable
Moments when students feel capable—trying, persisting, risking, contributing strengths. You’ll learn how dips in capability often reflect depleted neural energy or rising tension, and what this tells you about co-regulation needs and environmental stressors.
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Module 6: Trusted
How trust is expressed in the group—help-seeking, honesty, vulnerability, initiative. You’ll tune into the brain’s search for relational safety: where trust is solid, where it’s fragile, and how those patterns shape the emotional climate of the whole room.
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Across all modules you’ll find:
  • Relatable stories
  • Reflection prompts to help you “read” your own students more clearly
  • The Self-Reg Haven Planning Workbook to map patterns and next steps
  • Companion tools from Self-Reg Schools: A Handbook for Educators

You’ll Walk Away With

  • A clearer understanding of how safety, belonging, energy, capability, and trust emerge through behaviour
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  • Insight into where your learning space is already supporting students well — and where small shifts could strengthen it
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  • A hopeful, practical framework for nurturing places where students and educators can thrive together

Who Might Be Interested

   K–12 educators wanting to reduce behaviour challenges and strengthen learning by tuning into what students show us
   Early years educators and child-care professionals building safe, connected, balanced environments for young children
   School leaders, coaches, inclusion teams, and EAs looking for a shared reflection tool that supports team growth
   Anyone working in learning environments who wants a science-informed way to understand students’ behaviours as signals, not problems
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Designed and hosted by Susan Hopkins (EdD), this course brings the Five Look-Fors to life — giving educators a practical, compassionate way to notice what students are telling us about their experience and to nurture classrooms and schools where everyone can thrive.
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