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Emotional Regulation: Understanding Triggers and Responding to Behaviours Across Educational and Clinical Settings

$229.00

6 Hours  |   Pre-approved for CEU’s

Presenter
Presented by Tracy Whittaker-Taggart, M.A.
Date and Format
December 2, 2026
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LIVE STREAM: December 2, 2026 from  8:30am – 4:00pm (Winnipeg, MB) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone. 

ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until January 11, 2027. Please allow 3 – 10 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.

Day One | December 2, 2026

Emotional Regulation: Understanding Triggers and Responding to Behaviours Across Educational and Clinical Settings
Presented by Tracy Whittaker-Taggart, M.A.

8:30am – 4:00pm   December 2, 2026

Children and youth experience emotions and behaviour in different ways, and how adults understand and respond to those behaviours can have a significant impact. Whether you are a teacher, counsellor, psychologist, therapist, educational assistant, administrator, parent, or another helping professional, this workshop invites you to take a closer look at how you currently approach emotional regulation and challenging behaviour.

Rather than simply asking, “How do we stop or manage this behaviour?” participants will be encouraged to step back and consider: What might this behaviour be communicating? What does this child or youth need from the adults and environment around them? Through discussion, reflection, and practical examples, we’ll challenge some common assumptions about emotions and behaviour and explore how shifting our perspective can change the way we respond.

Participants will examine their own current practices and strategies, considering what is working, what may need to change, and how adult expectations and responses can influence a child or youth’s ability to regulate. The workshop will explore practical approaches for responding to emotional and behavioural challenges in ways that promote connection, safety, and understanding rather than simply focusing on compliance or behaviour management.

Throughout the session, participants will have opportunities to share experiences, discuss real-world challenges, and consider how these ideas apply to their own settings. The workshop concludes with a practical planning component where participants will identify and brainstorm specific changes they can make in their classroom, clinical practice, community setting, or home.

Participants will leave with a refreshed perspective on emotional regulation and behaviour, practical strategies they can begin using right away, and concrete ideas for creating environments that better support children and youth with a wide range of emotional and behavioural needs.

  • Explain the relationship between emotional regulation, executive functioning, stress, and behaviour.
  • Recognize the factors that contribute to emotional dysregulation in children and youth.
  • Differentiate between observable behaviour, underlying emotional needs, and potential triggers.
  • Interpret behaviour as communication and use this understanding to guide supportive responses.
  • Evaluate evidence-informed strategies for promoting emotional regulation and determine when they are most appropriate.
  • Apply practical approaches to foster regulation, resilience, and positive relationships across educational, clinical, home, and community settings.
  • Reflect on how their own responses, assumptions, and environments influence children’s emotional regulation and behaviour.
  • Introductions
  • Understanding emotional regulation: brain development, stress, and executive functioning
  • Why behaviour is communication: looking beyond the behaviour
  • Identifying triggers and understanding individual differences
  • Evidence-informed strategies to support emotional regulation
  • Creating environments that promote safety, connection, and resilience
  • Applying strategies through case examples and collaborative discussion
  • Reflection, action planning, key takeaways, and wrap-up

Tracy Whittaker-Taggart, M.A., is a Psychologist, educator, mentor, and champion of changing the way we think about kids. She is also a wife, daughter, pet mom, and never far from the ocean.  For more than 25 years she has built a career at the intersection of Psychology, education, and practice. Tracy has worked in the public school system for her entire career, while also balancing private practice work, teaching graduate education courses for both teachers and psychologists and giving back to the profession through her work on the provincial regulatory board and supervising students and early career psychologists. Tracy believes that lasting change doesn’t begin with a new strategy, it begins with a new understanding. She believes that curiosity about behavior comes before the intervention. When we change the way we think about behavior, we naturally make different decisions about how we intervene .

Tracy will bring together psychology, brain based understanding and educational practice to help anyone working with dysregulated children and youth to simply ask better questions, to drive better interventions. When you attend one of Tracy’s workshops, expect to challenge your thinking, walk away with strategies to use tomorrow, and have a little fun along the way.

Education and Clinical Professionals: All education and mental health or healthcare professionals who work with children or youth including, but not limited to K–12 Classroom Teachers, School Counsellors, Learning Assistance/Resource Teachers, School Administrators, School Paraprofessionals including Special Education Assistants, Classroom Assistants and Childcare Workers • All other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs including but not limited to: Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, Clinical Counsellors, Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Addiction Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Probation Officers and Community Police Officers.

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