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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 the world in different ways, and those differences influence how they respond to stress, relationships, learning, and everyday challenges. Whether you are a teacher, counsellor, psychologist, therapist, educational assistant, administrator, or another helping professional, understanding emotional regulation is essential to supporting children and youth effectively.

Through a psychological and developmental lens, this workshop explores the factors that influence emotional regulation and the relationship between triggers and behaviour. Together, we’ll examine an important question: What is this behaviour communicating, and what does this child or youth need right now? Participants will be introduced to evidence-informed strategies and frameworks for understanding and responding to behaviour, while also considering how our own experiences, assumptions, and reactions can shape interactions. Throughout the session, there will be opportunities to share experiences, discuss challenges, and collaboratively generate practical ideas and strategies that can be applied immediately in educational, clinical, and community settings.

This workshop emphasizes creating environments where children feel safe, connected, and ready to learn. Participants will leave with practical tools and strategies that can be implemented immediately to support children 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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