Families, Friends, Colleagues, and Allies of Autistic Adults - Supporting Your Autistic Loved Ones in a Neuroaffirming Way

5 Week Workshop

Allyship isn’t a feeling. It’s a practice.

For spouses, partners, parents, siblings, colleagues, friends, and allies who want to understand autistic adults — and support us without asking us to perform.

If someone you love or work with is autistic, you’ve likely been given a lot of advice that doesn’t work.

Across five weeks, you’ll learn how to support autistic adults with clarity, respect, and care — without trying to fix or normalise us.

Who This is For

  • Partners and spouses

  • Parents, siblings, and extended family

  • Friends and community members

  • Colleagues, managers, and team leads

  • Anyone committed to active, informed allyship

You don’t need prior knowledge — only curiosity, humility, and a willingness to learn.

What You’ll Learn & Receive

Week 1 — Introductions + Autism 101

Foundations of autistic experience, regulation, and emotional + sensory profiles. How to notice patterns and support without hovering.

  • Week 2 — Meltdowns & Shutdowns

    What they are, what they are not, how to respond in the moment, and how to reduce frequency and intensity by meeting needs.

    Week 3 — Understanding Burnout

    Why autistic burnout happens, how to spot early signs, what real recovery requires, and how to be truly supportive.

    Week 4 — Masking & Unmasking

    What masking costs, why “just be yourself” isn’t simple, and how to create conditions where authenticity is safe and sustainable.

    Week 5 — Open Q&A

    Bring your real scenarios. We’ll translate theory into practice and build your personal allyship plan.

What My Clients Say

  • I discovered Mati's group coaching the day after I was formally diagnosed as autistic, and I signed up immediately. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I felt so supported and understood by Mati and all the wonderful people in my group. With that support, I was able to take steps to advocate for myself and my needs in ways that I probably wouldn’t have done on my own. I’m still in touch with all the group members and so the support and community continues.

    Ryan, Vienna

  • I know that you have single handedly changed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of autistic people across the globe. Your ability to hold space and induce the reflection we all need to examine our lives and beliefs and grow and change and change things for the better, blows my mind. I am frequently, actively and forever grateful that I stumbled across your website in the early days of my autism diagnosis, lost at sea with nothing to hold onto. This community you’ve given me, this lifeline, this group of people I imagine standing shoulder to shoulder with me in life’s struggles and when I’m advocating for myself, is the single most impactful thing that keeps me going and believing things can and will get better. I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart

    Lori, Brighton

  • I found Matthew at a time when I was experiencing the worst bout of autistic burnout I’d ever been through. What made my burnout worse was not knowing I was autistic at first. I didn’t even know what burnout was. I just knew that something was wrong and that I no longer had the energy to continue being inauthentic and ruled by other peoples responses. I’d wondered vaguely on and off for about ten years whether I might be autistic, but my burnout last year caused me to finally knuckle down, do some in depth research and face the fact that I am indeed autistic. My next question was “what do I do now?” At that point I found Matthew. He has lived up to his life coaching ethos and more.

    Ads, Manchester

What You’ll Leave With

  • A practical understanding of autistic regulation and needs

  • Scripts and responses for meltdowns, shutdowns, and hard moments

  • Strategies for reducing burnout risk and supporting recovery

  • A shared language for masking, unmasking, and boundaries

  • A concrete allyship plan you can implement at home or at work

Who am I?

I’m an autistic and disabled educator, consultant, and peer-support coach.

I specialise in helping autistic adults understand themselves, recover from burnout, and build sustainable lives — and I also teach the people around us how to truly support that process.

I’m a Registered Autism Educator in the EU (France), a Peer-Support Coach with the Autistic Peer-Support Coaching Collective, and a member of Thriving Autistic and the Autism Professional Coaching Association (US).

I’m also an Access to Work–approved provider in the UK, and I’ve worked with organisations including the NHS, University of Sheffield, Ministry of Defence, and Transport for London.

My approach is practical, compassionate, and grounded in lived autistic experience.

I don’t teach theory from a distance — I live this every day.

My goal is to help you translate understanding into action, so your allyship becomes something that truly supports the autistic adults in your life.

Financial Accessibility

All of my workshops run on a Pay-As-You-Can and Solidarity basis.

The suggested tuition for this 5-week workshop is €360 (about $340).

If you can pay that amount, please do—it helps sustain this work and keeps these spaces possible for others.

If that’s not accessible right now, you’re still welcome. Use any of these discount codes that best fit your financial status when registering:

ESER-ESER – 10% off

REVA-REVA – 25% off

If none of these options fit for you, simply reach out through the contact form - we’ll find a way that works.

Payment can be made by card (Square or PayPal).

These groups require your time, energy, and trust. I honour that commitment - and I ask that you honour mine in return as a working, disabled person.

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