Co-regulation

Co-regulation refers to periods of communication when people are continuously adjusting their actions to each other, and when both participants have the feeling that something new and creative is occurring. Co-regulation is more than just being responsive and sensitive. It is about being open to the emerging possibilities in your relationship with another person and being sufficiently spontaneous to allow for improvisation and innovation.
Co-regulated conversation between adults is one in which ideas and feelings are mutually accepted, in which there is a continuous flow of ideas and feelings, and in which participants have a sense of discovering something new about themselves and each other.




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