Dr. Matt Zakreski
Let me help you use your brain to know and do better... and have fun while you do it!
Travels from Roxbury Township NJ, USA
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Speaks on:
Mental Health Awareness
Neurodiversity
Resilience
Child Development
Communication
Inclusive Leadership
Speaks to:
Higher Education & Vocational
Community & Civic Organizations
K-12 Education
Nonprofits & NGOs
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Key Audience Outcomes
Participants gained practical strategies and tools to immediately support neurodivergent individuals in various settings.
Attendees developed a deeper understanding of the intersectionality of neurodivergence and LGBTQ+ identities, fostering greater empathy and allyship.
Educators and parents felt empowered to create more inclusive and supportive environments for 2e and neurodivergent children.
Individuals experienced personal validation and a sense of community, recognizing their own neurodivergent traits and feeling understood.
Dr. Matt's Bio
Matthew “Dr. Matt” Zakreski, PsyD is a high energy, creative clinical psychologist and professional speaker who utilizes an eclectic approach to meet the specific needs of his neurodivergent clients. He is proud to serve the neurodivergent community as a consultant, a professor, an author, and a researcher. He has spoken over a thousand times all over the world about supporting neurodivergent kids. Dr. Matt is the co-founder of The Neurodiversity Collective, LLC, co-host of the podcast “Nerding out on Neurodiversity,” and the author of the Neurodiversity Playbook: How Neurodivergent People Can Crack the Code of Living in a Neurotypical World.
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Dr. Matt Offers the Following Talks
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Spectrum of Strengths: How to Optimize Neurodivergent Employees
Attendees at this session will learn how to differentiate between neurodivergent and neurotypical employees and clients and to give examples of both.
Attendees at this session will workshop how to make workplaces and products more neurodivergent-affirming and accessible to different populations
Attendees at this session will troubleshoot aspects of their workplaces and management styles that interfere with neurodivergent employees engaging with those services.
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45 - 90 minutes
Seeking Joy: How to Find Authentic Happiness in All Aspects of Your Life
1) Attendees at this session will be able to identify the core psychological aspects of joy and how to make them happen in their lives
2) Attendees at this session will be able to workshop how to increase areas of joy in their lives and how to implement those areas into their daily schedule
3) Attendees at this session will be able to identify challenges to authentic joy, workshop how to avoid those challenges, and also differentiate between fleeting and deep experiences of joy.
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60 - 90 minutes
I'm in the Business of Hope: How to Keep Believing when Things Feel Impossible
1. Participants will be able to differentiate between hope, optimism, and toxic positivity, and give examples of each
2. Participants will develop the skills necessary to tap into their personal values and dreams and use those visions to create deeper and more authentic connections to hope.
3. Participants will develop the skills necessary to create workplaces and communities that amplify and support feelings of hope in their employees and community members.
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45 - 90 minutes
Failure is Fun...damental
1) People who attend this conference will understand the potential psychological benefits from failure and how to help access those benefits
2) People who attend this conference will analyze the areas in their lives where failure is holding them back and process strategies that can work through those challenges
3) People who attend this conference will develop the analytic skills to determine how to make their systems more friendly to inviting positive failure and learning from it.
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0.75 - 2 hours
Improv-ing Social Skills: Using Improv Games to Develop SEL Skills
Attendees will be able to identify the five aspects of social-emotional learning and connect how the skills of improv are helpful for teaching those skills.
2. Attendees will participate in the improv games and workshop how to apply these activities and their lessons to their students and communities.
3. Attendees will work together to troubleshoot how to overcome challenges to implementing these activities, from the students to the parents to the administrators.
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0.75 - 2 hours
Falling in Love is Hard on OEs: Sex and Dating for Neurodivergent Folx
1. Attendees will learn the aspects of being sex positive and practice being affirming in conversations about sex, dating, sexual identity, and gender identity.
2. Attendees will be able to define overexcitabilities and apply how a person’s overexcitabilities impact the communication, emotionality, sensory experience, and troubleshooting inherent in a relationship.
3. Attendees will address the social-emotional aspects of dating and how being neurodivergent impacts those relational moments. Attendees will identify skills to overcome those challenges.
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0.75 - 2 hours