Matt tours and lectures pretty much year-round. Here is where he is speaking or appearing in the near future, but dates and cities are added often. To book him, just drop him a line at the address below. His fees are on a sliding scale between $1000 - $3000 (but if you really can’t afford that, give him a call. He’s kind of a softie).

There are a variety of topics Matt speaks on and at any given time he usually has five or six lectures going:

1. Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn’t Always Better - there are four versions of this talk all of which are related to his new book: 1)  a general argument drawing together a number of threads around risk theory, the uses of safety, community control and resisting authoritarian expansion;  2) one which is specifically about kids; 3) one which is specifically about urban planning and design; 4) one which is around community security and the commons
2. Possibility in the Face of Probability – deschooling and alternatives-to-school as reimagining and remaking a freer, more respectful and more democratic society
3. Deschooling and Social Justice – why deschooling has to be thought of a social justice movement towards self-determination – not just another lifestyle option.
4. Radically democratic urbanism – the world is rapidly becoming urbanized and in many ways cities are our ecological hope: what might a radically democratic and participatory urbanism might look like and how to get there.
5. The Promise of Democratic Schools – what the democratic school movement looks like worldwide, why it matters, and how it can mean more than just a few nice schools
6. Social Ecology and Counter Institutions – social ecology suggests that the domination of the natural world by humans flows directly from the domination of human by human. Matt suggests that only by building networks of radically democratic counter-institutions can we begin to imagine an ecological society.