Private Collapse Companioning™ With Maya Frost, founder of Collapse Forward
Metacrisis. Polycrisis. Collapse. The Great Turning. The Great Simplification. No matter what you choose to call this transition, you are processing the pain of it.
Let's turn your despair about what's ending into creative energy for what's emerging.
Climate anxiety. Anticipatory grief. Anger. Guilt. Hopelessness.
I help people find their best way to heal and thrive in uncertainty.
This is not therapy. It is not coaching.
It is a private space for intelligent, intentional adaptation.
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Transformations that ground, orient, and uplift you in uncertain times.
Things feel heavy, confusing, and even paralyzing.
I have worked with individuals in over 20 countries as they navigate the personal, professional, and existential transitions this moment calls for.
Together, we find your most natural way to:
- face grief and uncertainty
- turn anxiety into curiosity and clarity
- channel the energy of despair into creativity
- get playfully mindful and steady
- build resilience through joyful action
- adapt in ways that inspire and fulfill you
I work with highly-capable and conscientious people who are wrestling with profound questions about meaning, direction, belonging, place, creativity, relationships, and resilience as we face an uncertain future.
You may be:
- dealing with grief or disillusionment
- sensing that your old identity no longer fits
- redesigning your work around changing realities
- trying to remain fully awake without feeling anxious
- searching for a wiser way to live in an unstable era
You are not looking for formulas or frameworks.
You are looking for clarity, emotional steadiness, a more conscious way to live now, and the courage to make changes that protect the people, places, and possibilities you love.
My clients include:
Young adults feeling robbed of their future.
Creatives facing burnout and competition from AI.
Non-profit leaders overwhelmed by funding cuts and political animosity.
Employees getting laid off due to a recession.
Executives aging out, opting out, or being forced to exit.
Retirees struggling to find meaning and be of service.
Those facing the direct impacts of climate change, social unrest, and financial instability.
We start by expanding your idea of what is possible.
There are two ways we can work together to help you make critical choices and changes now:
♦ the Deepening series
♦ the Private Companioning experience
A focused process designed to create clarity, direction, and momentum around a single issue.
Tiered pricing: US$400-$600
Ideal for those facing:
- an important decision
- a major move
- a creative block
One 1-hour Deepening session, daily companioning for one week, and a 30-minute Kickstart call.
One month of extraordinary insight and enlivening transformation.
US$3000
A high-touch, continuous companioning experience for leaders navigating profound transitions, both personal and professional.
This includes a personalized combination of:
- live conversations
- voice-note support
- written reflection
- strategic guidance
- weekly private companioning for the following month to maintain momentum
Designed for founders, executive directors, leaders, and organizers seeking clarity, sustained support, and transformative action during a time of escalating complexity.
Why Collapse-Aware People Are Choosing Companioning Over Coaching or Therapy
Many of my clients have already done coaching, therapy, and/or personal development programs. At this pivotal moment, they want to work with someone who is clear about our crises and holds space for honest reflection and inspired re-imagination of our options.
They recognize that what has value now is deep awareness, lived experience, and the courage to face the truth.
They want to know how to stay grounded and adapt through care, creativity, and collaboration.
As a steady, skilled, and deeply experienced companion, I can help you find your own best ways to live fully now without panic, denial, or despair.
What I offer draws directly from my lived experience, including:
- early and extensive experience of overcoming loss and grief
- small-town roots with a global perspective
- life-long fascination with human behavior and adaptation
- experience as a mindfulness trainer, creative breakthrough coach, and trauma-informed facilitator
- work as an educator, writer, artist, entrepreneur, and non-profit leader
- personal reinventions in seven countries
- roles as a wife, mother, grandmother, and elder
- and the profound experience of ushering hundreds of individuals toward their own answers
In addition, my work is rooted in the latest research on anxiety, trauma, habits, human behavior, resilience, and adaptation.
How Collapse Companioning™ Can Help You Make Key Decisons Now For The Tumultuous Years Ahead
I have worked with clients facing extreme circumstances.
Survivors of school shootings in the U.S.
Those fleeing from war-torn Ukraine to live in Poland.
Climate refugees leaving their flooded or burned homes.
But I also work with leaders who need to make critical decisions about how to protect people, places, and all life on this planet.
This has given me rare insight into how various forms of societal and ecological collapse may impact us.
And despite the unpredictability of the exact events we will be facing, what's clear is this: we cannot continue to live in the same ways, with the same expectations, or with the same understanding.
We need to both evolve and return to our highest capacity for care and collaboration.
The Good News: We Can Find Our Way Through This Together
You don't have to be facing an immediately life-threatening situation in order to benefit from companioning.
But if you are, please know that it is possible to find something to hold onto even when nothing feels possible.
Those suffering through even can't-get-out-of-bed levels of despair have been uplifted and inspired by Collapse Companioning™ in ways that truly astound and humble me.
If you're wondering if this will work for you, please contact me directly using the button below or visit the FAQ page to learn more
Life will continue to get more challenging. But you don't have to face it alone.
I am here to support you each week with honesty, useful tips, and real stories from those who are navigating complexity in all kinds of creative ways.