Personalized Private Collapse Companioning™ with Maya Frost
As a trusted advisor for conscientious leaders, thinkers, and dreamers navigating complexity, I help people around the world through this most critical transition of our lives.
Collapse Companioning™ is a unique and proven 30-day process that shifts perspective, dismantles habits, sparks imagination, and inspires action.
It is based on the latest research related to generalized anxiety and human behavior, and applies what is recognized as the most effective method for reducing anxiety and turning grief into creative energy.
But it is also inspired by my own lived experience and what I have learned about dealing with loss, grief, fear, helplessness, and hopelessness.
Why Collapse Companioning™ Is So Effective For Those Who Are Aware of Our Metacrisis
Collapse Companioning™ is informed by recent research showing that anxiety often functions as a habit that can be changed through awareness, curiosity, and small daily shifts.
Inspired by the work of Dr. Judson Brewer, James Clear, and Dr. BJ Fogg, I combine mindfulness, behavioral science, and tiny habit practices into a 30-day process focused on meaningful change.
But it's not just habit change and mindfulness. It's a space for honest reflection about the accelerating changes that are creating new and unpredictable challenges. We talk about what is happening, how you're feeling, and how you can build personal resilience in creative ways.
For me, resilience and adaptation were a means of survival.
A difficult childhood and, later, surviving a car accident at 15 that killed four other teens, profoundly shaped me.
In the aftermath, someone introduced me to meditation. The meditation did not stick, but mindfulness did.
I created a simple awareness practice to reconnect with life around me, and it changed everything.
Years later, I turned that practice into a playful online course and game that reached thousands of people in more than 100 countries.
Smiling through the pain in 1977.
Drawn to psychology and mindfulness, I earned a degree in psychology and Asian Studies, and spent my senior year studying in nine Asian countries, focusing on Buddhist philosophy.
That experience sparked an even deeper commitment to expanding awareness.
Over the past 50 years, I’ve explored many forms of mindfulness.
And I know that traditional meditation is rarely the best fit for people who are overwhelmed or exhausted.
I help clients explore playful ways to nurture awe and wonder.
Meditating in Sri Lanka in 1982.
Early Inspiration From Joanna Macy That Influenced the Development of Collapse Companioning™
My work has been influenced by Joanna Macy and her pioneering “despair work,” which evolved into the Work That Reconnects, blending deep ecology, systems thinking, and mindful awareness.
I first encountered her work in the 1980s and later had the opportunity to spend time with her at a gathering I organized in Oregon in 2002.
While Collapse Companioning™ is distinct from the Work That Reconnects, it shares a focus on mindful awareness, emotional honesty, and transforming eco-anxiety into meaningful action and connection.
In 2002 with my four daughters at the Oregon Coast.
The First Collapse Companioning™ Clients As the COVID Pandemic Hit
I first began offering Collapse Companioning™ in early 2020, as COVID spread across the world. Living under strict lockdown in Buenos Aires, I was deeply moved by the grief, isolation, and inability of so many people to properly mourn their losses.
Wanting to help, I reached out through my non-profit networks and began supporting people who were overwhelmed by grief and unable to function day to day. I started simply by listening deeply and showing up consistently with care and presence.
Over the following year, while supporting dozens of clients around the world at no cost, I developed the companioning process I use today.
While my work shares some common ground with Dr. Alan Wolfelt’s companioning approach to grief, my work is specifically focused on the grief and disorientation that arise from the recognition of our metacrisis.
Inspired from a young age by the marigold's role as a humble companion plant that protects other plants by its presence, I use a marigold as the symbol of my work.
30 Days of Daily Support, Encouragement, and Inspiration That Turns Despair Into Action
Clients often describe Collapse Companioning™ as feeling natural and deeply human, rooted in presence, trust, and honest connection.
We interact daily over 30 consecutive days via your choice of:
🔸video sessions/messages
🔸audio-only calls or voice notes
🔸texts
It is mostly asynchronous, giving you time to consider each question or prompt before responding.
This leads to insights daily, and we continue in an easy flow that naturally builds momentum and consistency.
At my local park in Amsterdam.
Collapse Companioning™ Pricing and Availability
30-Day Collapse Companioning™ Experience
Includes a personalized combination of:
- live conversations
- voice-note support
- written reflection
- strategic guidance
- weekly private companioning for the following month to maintain momentum
Price: US$3000
Providing daily companioning is highly individualized, emotionally demanding, and intellectually immersive. I maintain a deliberately limited practice so I can work with care, depth, and integrity.
Is Collapse Companioning Right For You?
I work with a range of individuals who recognize our reality, including:
- Leaders carrying concerns they cannot easily discuss with colleagues.
- Professionals questioning whether their current work still aligns with their values.
- Creatives whose imagination has been crowded out by fear and uncertainty.
- Individuals facing a major decision, transition, or life reinvention.
This work tends to resonate with people who:
- value flexibility over formulas
- appreciate emotionally intelligent conversation
- are longing to respond and act rather than simply process
- seek meaningful transformation
- want support that is nuanced and deeply personalized
Let's explore what's calling to you, and how paying attention to it might transform your perspective and your possibilities.
Getting Started With Collapse Companioning™
Getting started is easy.
Simply fill out the short form to start a conversation with me directly, and we'll go from there.