Susan Hopkins

About

Susan Hopkins is the Executive Director of The MEHRIT Centre, where she has been leading Self-Reg initiatives across Canada and internationally for the past 10 years. With over 25 years of experience in education and child development, she has worked in schools, early years programs and government systems, from the Northwest Territories of Canada, where she developed the play- and culture-based kindergarten curriculum, to northern Italy. She is the co-author, with Stuart Shanker, of “Restoring Resilience” (2025) and “Self-Reg Schools: A Handbook for Educators” (2019).