The Family Regulation Toolkit is designed to help you open up conversations, deepen understanding, and create a regulation-friendly lifestyle that works for your unique family. This isn’t about “fixing behaviours”, it’s about learning how each family member’s nervous system functions, recognising triggers and stress responses, and working together to create an environment where everyone feels safe, seen, and supported.

What You’ll Gain from This Toolkit:

✅ Insight into each family member’s sensory preferences & regulation needs
✅ A shared understanding of dysregulated behaviours & triggers
✅ A practical Family Regulation Action Plan to guide your daily life
✅ Ongoing strategies for managing stress, transitions & emotional overwhelm
✅ A communication framework that prioritises connection over compliance

What is inside?

Section 1: Understanding Our Family’s Sensory Needs

• Recognising Sensory Preferences and signs of dysregulation.
• Establishing your families, sensory preferences.
• Adult Dysregulation Checklist and self-regulation checklist. 
• Child Dysregulation Checklist and self-regulation checklist 

Section 2: Creating a Regulation-Friendly Home Environment

• Designing a Home That Supports Sensory & Emotional Regulation
• Boundaries and Predictability: Creating a sense of safety.
• Supporting the nervous system daily.

Section 3: Daily Rhythms & Predictability for Regulation

• Building a regulation – supportive lifestyle 
• Develop Morning and Evening Routines That Support Regulation
• Managing Emotional Regulation as a family.

Section 4: Communication Strategies for Connection Over Compliance

• Shifting from Compliance to Connection-Based Parenting
• Common communication challenges & their impact on regulation. 
• Approaching behaviours and introducing boundaries with connection. 

Section 5: Family Emotional Regulation Plan

• Understanding family sensory preferences, triggers and identifying support. 
• Creating a regulation – friendly home environment
• Develop your family Emotional Regulation Plan

Section 6: Supporting Parental & Caregiver Regulation

• Recognising Your Own Dysregulation as a Parent 
• Self-Regulation Strategies for Caregivers
• Parent and Care giver Self-regulation plan 

Section 7: Putting It All Together – The Family Action Plan

• Develop your family action plan. 
• Decide how you will reflect on the action plan. 
• Mutual regulation and self-regulation activity lists.

How This Toolkit Helps Your Family:

🔹 Understand how stress, sensory and emotional dysregulation, and unmet needs affect behaviour.
🔹 Recognise each person’s signs of dysregulation and what helps them regulate.
🔹 Improve communication so that every family member feels heard & valued.
🔹 Develop a regulation plan that you can keep revisiting & refining.
🔹 Strengthen connection by making emotional & sensory regulation a shared family effort.

This toolkit is more than just a guide, it’s a living document that grows and evolves with your family. Whether you’re just starting your journey or looking for practical tools to enhance your existing routines, this resource will help you create a home where emotional regulation, understanding, and connection thrive.

Start your journey towards a more connected, regulated, and supportive family life today!