MEDIA | Topics + Speaking, Podcast & Press Appearances Featuring Maya Frost
Maya Frost is an interdisciplinary thinker and practitioner exploring how humans remain imaginative and engaged in an age of uncertainty. She explores the habits and habitats that expand human capacities for adaptation and flourishing.
Her work examines why growing awareness of climate change, ecological decline, and social disruption does not always lead to meaningful action, and how imagination can help bridge the gap between overwhelm and adaptive engagement.
Since early 2020, she has worked with hundreds of collapse-aware individuals in more than 20 countries, helping them navigate grief, uncertainty, identity shifts, and major life transitions.
Through this work, she developed Collapse Companioning™, a process that helps people move beyond despairalysis and engage more creatively with an uncertain future.
Previously, Maya's writings and talks on mindfulness, creativity, and breakthrough thinking reached audiences in more than 100 countries and were featured in over 150 media outlets worldwide. Her book, The New Global Student, was published by Crown (Random House) in 2009.
An American who has lived abroad for more than two decades, Maya now speaks internationally on imagination, adaptation, agency, and expanding human capacity in an age of uncertainty.
Website: MayaFrost.com
About page: https://MayaFrost.com/about
Email: maya@mayafrost.com
Publications: Collapse Companion on Substack
Abstract for presentations: https://MayaFrost.com/abstract
WHY NOW?
We are living through a period of accelerating ecological, technological, political, and social disruption. More people than ever are experiencing climate anxiety, anticipatory grief, and uncertainty as they recognize that the future presents unprecedented challenges.
Maya offers a unique perspective on how individuals can respond to these challenges without denial, doom, or disengagement.
TRENDING TOPICS
- Why Awareness Alone Doesn't Lead to Action
- Despairalysis: Staying Engaged When Collapse Awareness Becomes Overwhelming
- Why Highly-Informed People Often Feel the Most Stuck
- Why Imagination Is Our Most Overlooked Adaptive Capacity
- Rewilding Imagination as a Tool for Adaptation
- Adaptive Engagement in Uncertain Times
- Habits and Habitats That Support Adaptation
- Human Resilience in the Metacrisis
KEY QUESTIONS
- Why do traditional self-help approaches often fail collapse-aware individuals?
- How can we move from awareness to acceptance?
- How can people remain engaged as things get more challenging?
- What does adaptive engagement look like in everyday life?
RECENT APPEARANCES (SPRING 2026)
SPEAKING
April 2026: Keynote speaker at the World Adaptation Forum in Budapest, Hungary. The conference theme was ¨Facing Polycrisis¨ and the speakers included academics, researchers, and decision-makers from around the world who are addressing the challenges presented by our colliding crises.
Topic: From Despair To Action: Turning Loss Into Adaptation
May 2026: Keynote speaker at INTEGRA, an event in Amsterdam that brought international leaders supporting awareness of the metacrisis with creativity and connection in the liminal space.
Topic: Creative Adaptation In Uncertain TImes: A Mindfulness-Based Framework For Reclaiming Agency
PODCASTS
March 2026: Featured guest on The Poetry of Predicament podcast with Dean Spillane-Walker, founder of Living Resilience.
Topic: Women Facing Collapse: Less Doom, More Bloom
Clip: The Origin of Collapse Companioning™
April 2026: Featured guest on the StoryMoss Magazine podcast with Emmanuelle Chiche.
Topic: Doom to Bloom: Disrupting Despairalysis By Rewilding Imagination
Clip: Tapping Into Longing & Rewilding Our Imagination
May 2026: Featured guest on The Eddy Network podcast with leadership consultant, Dr. Ed Brenegar.
Topic: Facing Grief, Anxiety, and Outrage
Clip: The Power of Grief + Outrage To Inspire Protection
June 2026: Featured guest on ThriveMind: Self-Care Companion podcast, a mental wellness and self-care series designed for reflection, personal growth, and intentional daily living.
Topic: Finding a Way Forward
Clip: Anxiety As A Habit We Are Reinforcing
April 2026: Interviewed for Grist, a magazine dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future, in a thoughtful and thorough piece about Prof. Jem Bendell, author of a viral paper in 2018 and a book, Breaking Together, that sparked the global Deep Adaptation movement.
What To Expect When You´re Expecting the End of the World by Kate Yoder, Senior Staff Writer
May/June 2026: Article published in COMPASS, the magazine for the Association of Professional Futurists, which is dedicated to the advancement of futurists and futures thinking in these particularly uncertain times. This article was featured in a special edition devoted to the topic of ¨Wild Cards, Black Swans, and Dragon Kings.¨
Seven Essential Swaps For Collapse-Aware Futurists
Access the full article here:
https://MayaFrost.com/compass-article-by-Maya-Frost
Artwork for article and COMPASS magazine cover, May/June 2026
July 2026: Interview by business storyteller Peter de Kuster for Passion Never Retires, one of his sites profiling those who are doing good work beyond traditional retirement age.
