Introducing the
Regulation in the Moment Masterclass
A 3-State Capacity Check for Paediatric OTs
Access The MasterclassA practical 80min masterclass to help occupational therapists decide what to do when a child escalates in the moment.
When a child is dysregulated, therapists are often left asking:
• Should I contain this situation?
• Should I scaffold the child?
• Is this actually a teaching moment?
• Will consequences even land right now?
This live workshop introduces a simple 3-State Capacity Check to guide confident clinical decision-making during escalation moments.
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Why escalation moments are so difficult in paediatric OT
Many therapists are taught tools and strategies.
But far fewer are taught how to decide what to do in the moment when a child escalates.
When regulation breaks down, therapists often find themselves wondering:
• Is this behaviour or nervous system overload?
• Should I push through or pause?
• Why do strategies work sometimes but fail other times?
• How do I explain what I did clinically in my notes?
Without a clear framework, these moments can feel uncertain.
And documentation often ends up sounding vague:
"Sensory strategies were used."
But clinical reasoning deserves to be clearer than that.
What you will learn
In this 80min masterclass you will learn how to:
• recognise regulation capacity in real time
• identify when the nervous system requires stabilising
• determine when scaffolding is appropriate
• recognise when a child is actually ready for teaching
• understand why strategies sometimes fail during escalation
• strengthen your clinical reasoning in challenging moments
• document regulation-based work more clearly for NDIS
This is designed to support confident, regulation-informed decision making.
Access The MasterclassTestimonials
“Every once in a while, you have the privilege of attending a course that is rooted in theory and evidence, but that also gives you the practical. And this is one! This practical course gives you strategies that immediately empower you as a therapist not only to spot where your kids are at in the moment, but also to know what to do in that moment. It empowers you to understand why strategies that are supposed to work haven’t always done so. By looking at the child’s capacity within the context of normal development, you will be able to have clarity about when and how to intervene with your children so it actually works. I cannot recommend this course highly enough. Thank you Beryl!
Bunty McDougall,
Occupational therapist, UK.
“I love a good framework, and your approach sounds really helpful - there are lots of resources about avoiding the trigger or understanding the behaviour - but not as much about how to respond in the right way in the moment. From an educator perspective, the framework was simple, clear and easy to remember and the practical case study examples throughout worked well.”
Clare Batkin:
Occupational Therapist/ Â Â Clinical Educator
"Beryl's Masterclass on Regulation in the Moment was incredibly informative. A fresh way to consider our children's capacity in any given moment. This masterclass considers not only what strategies could be employed, but most importantly when to do so. Beryl considers the sensitivity of the child's unique nervous system and how to stabilise it, in a given moment. She further contemplates the performance-related pressures faced by Occupational Therapists to evidence their value through successful outcomes for parents, alongside the need to respect the time and capacity required for a child to achieve a state of 'readiness' for skill acquisition."
JoÂ
UK occupational therapist
