MEDIA | Speaking, Press, & Podcast Appearances Featuring Maya Frost
BIO
Maya Frost, founder of Collapse Forward, is the creator of Collapse Companioning™, her deep process of compassionate presencing and rewilding imagination. Since 2020, she has held space for hundreds of individuals at their breaking-open points: devastating loss and grief, searing identity shifts, and existential awakening. Her signature 30-day process has helped people in over 20 countries turn despair into depth, discovery, daring, doing, and delight despite everything.
In the early 2000s, her playful, eyes-wide-open approach to everyday mindfulness sparked the imagination of people in over 100 countries, and was featured in 150 media outlets around the world. Her focus on awe and awareness was inspired by her own struggle to overcome her grief as the sole survivor of a tragic car accident at the age of 15.
At international metacrisis-focused conferences (including the recent World Adaptation Forum in Budapest) and collective sense-making events (such as Integra in Amsterdam), she serves as a keynote speaker offering stories of our surprising capacity to creatively reclaim our agency and protect the people, places, and possibilities we love.
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
Recent Appearances:
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
May 2026: Featured guest on The Eddy Network podcast with leadership consultant, Dr. Ed Brenegar.
Topic: Facing Grief, Anxiety, and Outrage
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
April 2026 Quoted in Grist, a magazine dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future, in a thoughtful and thorough piece about Jem Bendell, author of Breaking Together, a book that sparked the Deep Adaptation global movement.
What To Expect When You´re Expecting the End of the World by Kate Yoder, Senior Staff Editor
June 2026 Article 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