21 Core Tools – Rebooting Now – Success in Learning & Life

Reboot’s 3 Brains are a neuro-metaphor that help widen the Window of Tolerance and create the optimal conditions for learning, relating and feeling great.

The 3 Brains are a simple whole-brain lens that ensures that we as educators, parents and support services are doing what we can to meet the needs of our kids and bring out their best. Using the 3 Brains both adults and children can identify the causal reasons for behaviour and the unmet needs that must be addressed to have a happy and integrated brain that can think and feel great.

Big feelings are a normal part of life: the skill is knowing what to do with them. Reboot’s 5 Faces tool gives children a simple visual language for self-regulation: name how you feel, work out what you need, and know who or what can help.

Used every day at school or at home, the 5 Faces reduce reactivity, build empathy, and grow kids who can find their own way back to calm. Name it to tame it.

Discover Reboot’s Positive Change Highway strategies to support learner’s agency, problem-solving and goal setting abilities. Encourage learners to use a solutions’ focus when facing challenges, and engage in reflective practices and daily debriefs.

The Positive Change Highway depicts the problem-solving process clearly. Effective problem solving skills are the foundation of agency, healthy risk-taking, resilience, effective goal setting and an essential life skill.

Reboot’s Learning Journey depicts the very many stages we encounter when in the process of learning.

Divided into the four zones of Learning and Mastery (above the Line of Opportunity) and Trying and Survival (below the Line of Opportunity), the Learning Journey describes the feelings, brain states and behaviours in each zone to boost metacognition and ownership.

The Learning Journey helps each individual identify both where they are in their learning process (in the classroom, home or personal skill development) and what strategies are needed to take the next steps toward greater learning and growth.

Apply a suite of tools based on Reboot’s Cycle of Reactivity to proactively support individual learners to stay calm and engaged. Identify and minimise triggers, boost learner stress management skills and apply restorative approaches to repair relationships and encourage capacity building post escalated events.

Reboot’s Restorative Justice (RJ) practices encourage accountability,
peaceful co-existence, and inclusion. Rather than simply punishing offenders, these tools focus on repairing the harm caused to individuals and the community as a whole.

Foster a sense of appreciation and recognition of one another’s strengths using Reboot’s Lucky Heart.

Gratitude is a true superpower! Feeling grateful boosts emotional well-being, strengthens relationships, and creates deeper connections with the people and environment around us. When modelled and intentionally nurtured, gratitude becomes a foundation for lifelong resilience, joy, and mindfulness.

Real power is the ability to regulate your emotions, not let other people provoke you and make positive decisions regardless of how stressed or upset you are. This gives you the freedom to act the way you choose in any situation and be proud of your response afterwards. A Power With relationship is a mutually win-win interaction that that is defined by respect, kindness and reciprocity. It requires that individuals respect each other and their boundaries and that they have the skills to resolve conflict. A Power Over relationship occurs when a person tries to get their own way, or to control or hurt the other person.

Have you got your Power or did you give it away?

Being ‘centered’ is a state of mindfulness in which we draw all of our available energy and conscious awareness into the present moment and ground ourselves. Grounding leads to a sense of reclaiming your individual power in a
situation and makes you more able to respond rather than react to circumstances.

Use Reboot’s STOP-REBOOT-GO strategy to better manage and reduce overall stress
levels throughout the day by coping intentionally and self- regulating (somatosensory,
relational, or dissociative).

Before you can help someone else, you need to be grounded and centered yourself.

Reboot’s Early Childhood resources build agency, self-regulation, problem-solving, positive engagement and healthy relationship
skills within Kindergarten and Long Day Care settings.

This neuroscience-based and
developmentally appropriate approach addresses the needs of all children and provides answers to supporting those with additional special needs and complex trauma histories.

We’ve taken complex ideas and turned them into a simple child-friendly language. along with engaging visuals that support children and staff of all ages.

Parenting isn’t always easy! Reboot’s Whole-Brain Framework gives you real power, not only to meet our children’s needs (and
make your life easier), but to teach kids to identify what they need and how to address it themselves so that they learn to flourish in all circumstances, even when we are not there.

5 Faces

Reboot’s 5 Faces are used to develop the key skill of self-regulation. Self-regulation involves knowing how you feel/think and having the capacity to manage those feelings/thoughts to behave in appropriate ways. The 5 Faces will help you to support (and co-regulate) kids emotionally, while building their ability to manage their own feelings and thoughts. The 5 Faces have been shown to reduce reactivity, improve empathy and boost young people’s confidence to engage in learning and life.

Solutions Loop

Reboot’s Solutions Loop recognises that problems in life exist in an endless loop. In the real world, young people encounter problems that are complex, not well defined, and lack a clear solution and approach. The Solutions Loop guides young people to identify and apply different strategies to solve these problems, stay flexible, reflect effectively and seek feedback and support when required. As a visually depicted process, not dependent on adult-driven discussion, the Solutions Loop can be used at home, in schools or support processes to build agency and problem-solving confidence and independence.

Positive Change Highway - Problem Solving

The Positive Change Highway depicts the change/problem-solving process clearly. Effective problem solving skills are the foundation of agency, healthy risk-taking, resilience, effective goal setting and an essential life skill. It is very difficult to take the risk to move forward and grow if you don’t trust that you can deal with the problems and accompanying emotions that might arise. The Positive Change Pathway helps generate a growth mindset and boost learners capacity to actively engage in learning.

Positive Change Highway - Goal Setting

Reboot’s Positive Change Highway outlines each step in the learning and problem-solving process. This simple visual encourages young people to prepare in advance the Strategies that are needed to manage the Speedbumps that inevitably arise in learning and life. Used in classrooms, homes and support sessions, Reboot’s Positive Change Highway builds children’s confidence and growth mindset when approaching problems/learning. Effective problem–solving skills are the foundation of agency, healthy risk-taking, resilience, effective goal setting and an essential life skill.

The Learning Journey

(formerly the Quadrants of Engagement)

Reboot’s Learning Journey depicts the very many stages we encounter when in the process of learning. Divided into the four zones of Learning and Mastery (above the Line of Opportunity) and Trying and Survival (below the Line of Opportunity), the Learning Journey describes the feelings, brain states and behaviours in each zone to boost metacognition and ownership. The Learning Journey helps each individual identify both where they are in their learning process (in the classroom, home or personal skill development) and what strategies are needed to take the next steps toward greater learning and growth.

Line of Opportunity

Reboot’s Line of Opportunity demarcates the access to resources individuals have when learning and facing life challenges and opportunity. When we have crossed the Line of Opportunity, we are in an integrated brain state that enables us to embrace learning and life opportunities to grow and learn. When below the Line of Opportunity we fall into a disintegrated brain state unable to access clarity, purpose, problem solving and positivity regarding learning. Reboot’s Line of Opportunity can be used to foster ownership of learning opportunities, deeper understanding of the impact of our sensations and feelings on our ability to learn, a growth mindset and metacognition of the learning process.

Power Bubble

Real power is the ability to regulate your emotions, not let other people provoke you and make positive decisions regardless of how stressed or upset you are. This gives you the freedom to act the way you choose in any situation and be proud of your response afterwards. A Power With relationship is a mutually win-win interaction that that is defined by respect, kindness and reciprocity. It requires that individuals respect each other and their boundaries and that they have the skills to resolve conflict. A Power Over relationship occurs when a person tries to get their own way, or to control or hurt the other person.

My Power

My Lucky Heart

Start With "I"

The Learning Bus

The Resilience Equation

My Why

Stop Reboot Go

Hook Line & Sinker

SERFing

Window of Tolerance

Wall of Awesome

Web Aware

Relationships form a web around us based on the content, quality and quantity of interactions. Many at-risk and vulnerable people have fewer connections in their webs and are more socially isolated and receive less support. Our relationships can become stronger by intentionally improving the quality, quantity and content of interactions. The quality is defined by our presence, warmth and authenticity. As a class or group we are the web makers, keepers and breakers. A healthy and strong web supports everyone involved.