Do you feel overwhelmed with the added stress of living through a global pandemic on top of day-to-day parenting struggles and challenges?

You are not alone!! We are here to support you through this difficult time. Now more than ever we need to build our village!!

Grab your coffee, get cozy and join Dr. Jill Franks, PhD and Special Guest Speaker Dr. Susan Hopkins, co-author of the Self-Reg Schools Handbook for Educators, live on Zoom as they discuss how to apply Shanker Self-Reg® in their day-to-day parenting.

Self-Reg is a method to help individuals who have a heightened stress reactivity. Through practicing Self-Reg principles, you will first become aware of it, then learn why this is happening and finally learn what to do about it.

What to expect:

- Meet other moms (virtually) who had babies during the pandemic

- Gain a whole new understanding of their child’s behaviour and how to respond to it

- Learn the impacts of excess stress on children’s behaviour and mood and how your own stress and how it affects your parenting

- Find out how other parents use Self-Reg strategies to deal with real-life parenting situations and problems

For each registration, Inventive Minds will donate $1 to SickKids Foundation.

If you would like to make a donation, please visit this site: https://fundraise.sickkidsfoundation.com/coffeeandcomfychat

Contact media@inventivekidz.com for any questions of concerns.

Special Guest Speaker

Dr. Susan Hopkins is a passionate advocate for children, families, schools and communities, Dr. Susan Hopkins is the Executive Director of The MEHRIT Centre. Over Susan’s two decades of experience in education, she has worked in roles in the early years, K-12 and post-secondary across contexts from Italy to the Northwest Territories (NWT) including classroom teacher, program support teacher, vice-principal, district coordinator for inclusion, researcher, curriculum developer, and post-secondary instructor. Susan led the NWT implementation of the Early Development Instrument in kindergarten, co-authored the 10-Year Early Childhood Framework, developed the NWT play and culture-based kindergarten curriculum and led the Planning, Research and Evaluation division for the Department of Education. Under 5+ years of Susan’s leadership, The MEHRIT Centre has evolved into a highly respected, accessible, and successful center for teaching and learning Self-Reg. Susan recently co-authored the Self-Reg Schools Handbook for Educators and developed the online resources for the Principal’s edition with Stuart Shanker (Pearson, 2019).

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