Speaking & Workshops
Honest stories, practical insight, and hope that meets people where they are.
Are you looking for someone to inform and encourage your audience about the issues of mental health, childhood victimization, and self-help? Award-winning mental health advocate Michael Skinner can breathe inspiration into your next event.
Using humor and compassion, Michael takes his listeners on a journey from child victimization through the mental health, legal, and medical systems to his current career as a successful musician and award-winning speaker.
Michael offers trauma survivors, their family, and friends hope, insight, and compassion. He gives professionals a rare opportunity to learn about their system from the inside out, to see what helps trauma survivors-and what doesn’t. He draws on his years as a professional musician to connect with people of all ages.
Audience
Schools and universities
Community organizations
Conferences and professional trainings
Libraries and civic groups
Faith communities and recovery groups
Topics
Michael speaks in a positive, upbeat manner about issues of mental health, trauma, child abuse and exploitation, mild-traumatic brain injury, peer support, and self-help. His personal experience as a survivor of severe trauma, a father, a mental health client and advocate, and a professional musician provides a broad background from which to connect with his audience. He can tailor his talk to your audience and objectives.
Call Michael today to discuss how he can contribute to the success of your next event. 603-625-2136
