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Regulation: Discovering your Calm Program
The Regulation: Discovering Your Calm Program has been designed by our occupational therapists to support children as they learn regulation skills. Through video training and playful exploration of regulation strategies and tools, children are invited to explore and discover what works best for them. They’ll be guided to examine how dysregulation feels and they’ll take the lead in exploring the strategies that help them regulate.
The program also includes some guidance for parents and caregivers to understand what’s happening in the brain and body during overwhelm and dysregulation.
Created for ages 4 – 16

Regulation: Discovering your Calm Program
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Skills it can help build
YOUR TOOLS
What's in your toolbox

MP3 Player

Wooden fidget

Vibrating cushion

Curvd earplugs, tips + case

The Buzzing Bees In My Brain

Squishy ball

Reflection cards

Regulation Tracker

A facilitator pamphlet

Online program
Does this sound familiar?
"Some environments are totally overwhelming to them, I want to understand how to modify those spaces."
"Their meltdowns are devastating to watch, let alone for them to experience, I'd love to help prevent them wherever possible."
If these challenges sound familiar, you are not alone. It’s exactly why we’ve designed this program.

What the program covers
This question comes from the book The Buzzing Bees in My Brain. Written from the lived experience perspective of a neurodivergent child, the book helps children recognise and explore the feelings associated with sensory and emotional overwhelm. In many ways, this book helped shape the Regulation: Discovering Your Calm Program.
Our program aims to help children identify how their brains and bodies feel when they’re regulated or dysregulated. Whether they feel buzzy, fuzzy, fizzy or something entirely different, the program can help children understand how dysregulation feels, in a way that makes sense to them.
Through video guidance and playful exploration of regulation strategies and tools, children are invited to explore and discover the regulation strategies that work best for them. The tools and strategies that are included with the program stimulate a range of different senses, so children can really experiment with a wide range of regulation practices.
This program invites children to take the lead in exploring their needs and preferences. It also supports them to share those discoveries with their families and caregivers so they can be well supported in a variety of settings.
Regulation is absolutely critical to learning, to wellbeing, to focusing and for returning to calm. And so it follows that helping children regulate is one of the most powerful ways we can support our children, and set them up for success.
