Joe Persia is an elementary school Principal, with extensive training in Shanker Self-Reg®.  He holds a M.Sc. In Education, a B.A. in H.R. Training & Development. As an elementary school administrator, he’s accumulated over thirty years experience in education, and his diverse instructional background includes teaching positions in post-secondary in addition to those from Grade 8 right on down to kindergarten where he spent the majority of his teaching career.  His move into an administrative role, followed his work with special needs children living with developmental, communication, self-regulation, & learning exceptionalities.

Evidence of his belief in life-long learning, Joe continues to further his learning and understanding of neuroscience, cognition, well-being, and resilience.  With vast reading, action-research, professional/personal reflection as part of his personal & professional repertoire, it has become clear to Joe that the course charted for children as well as young adults and their long-term trajectories, although flexible, are continuously shaped by the co-regulatory relationships in their lives. This also holds true for each and everyone of us.  Joe strives to establish conditions that serve as fertile ground for optimal self-regulation and co-regulation.

Joe is currently very active on his school district’s Self-Reg Steering, and Staff Wellness Committees.

joe.persia@cognitivedynamics.ca

Cognitive Dynamics would like to introduce you to both child and adult centered programs and opportunities to enhance wellbeing, health, and contentment both through The MEHRIT Ctr. and individually. The workshops, webinars and presentations made available will assist in the development of one’s ability to understand the stress/tension that is burning energy, and deal with the everyday variations in energy levels that can create an imbalance in our psychophysiology. Imbalances that all too often foretell reactions/responses that may not reflect the true message we would like our actions to convey.

As a means of communication, behaviour in and of itself is all too often a language that is misinterpreted. An interpreter, especially one well-versed in Shanker Self-Reg®, as well as its companion neuroscience, can help you translate hidden messages and better understand the difference between poor choices, and “non-choices.”

Inquire about course offerings through The MEHRIT Ctr. (Self-Reg.ca), book informative presentations, and/or seek training and development sessions that range in duration and can be in-person, or online. Follow-up and further mentoring to meet individual, group, an/or organizational needs.

Contact me for more information.

thrive@cognitivedynamics.ca