Writer, Speaker, Researcher | Offering Private Companioning & Co-Creative Partnerships

Turning anxiety into agency, and exploring the relationships between habits, habitats, attention, and human adaptation in an age of uncertainty.

I'm exploring a simple question:

How do the habitats we create shape the habits that shape our lives? 

Maya Frost, founder of Collapse Forward, in an Amsterdam park in spring 2026.

My work draws from ecological psychology, environmental mindfulness, behavior change, and lived experience.

Through essays, conversations, and research, I'm investigating how everyday environments influence our capacity for curiosity, consciousness, discernment, imagination, and adaptive engagement.

This is an evolving and exciting inquiry that offers insight into how we can craft our most enlivening habits and habitats.

I'm so glad you're here. 🌱

To deepen this inquiry, I continue to work with a limited number of individual clients to design the habits and habitats that will most naturally inspire them and uplift others.  

It´s a soundly science-backed approach that embraces longing, awe, and joy as a supportive structure for care and connection.

I regularly share my discoveries and reflections in presentations, podcasts, and publications.

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My perspective has been shaped by my:

  • life-long focus on creative adaptation 
  • small-town roots and global perspective
  • work as a mindfulness trainer, educator, and non-profit leader
  • experience as a creative breakthrough coach and trauma-informed facilitator 
  • roles as a futurist, author, and artist who has lived and worked in seven countries
Maya Frost, founder of Collapse Forward and Creator of Collapse Companioning, in Amsterdam, summer 2026 Companioning and Collapse Forward, in Amsterdam in spring 2026

Curious about who I help?

I invite you to learn more by reading some client stories in their own words.


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Life is getting harder. But you don't have to face the challenges 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. 

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