MEDIA | Topics + Speaking, Podcast & Press Appearances Featuring Maya Frost
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PROFESSIONAL BIO
Maya Frost is an interdisciplinary thinker, researcher, and practitioner exploring how humans remain curious, imaginative, and engaged in an age of uncertainty. A futurist with a focus on humane flourishing, she examines how the cultivation of attention, longing, and imagination can expand adaptive capacity.
Her current work explores what actually leads to agency and participation in the face of overwhelming change. She developed and tested Lucid Longing, a practice for paying attention to what you long for, imagining a future that gives that longing shape, and identifying small ways to begin moving toward it.
Since early 2020, she has worked with hundreds of collapse-aware individuals in more than 20 countries, helping them transform their despairlysis into full and creative engagement with life.
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 in seven countries, Maya is now based in Amsterdam and speaks internationally on the topic of longing and its implications for both imagined and crafted futures.
Website: MayaFrost.com
About: https://MayaFrost.com/about
Media: https://MayaFrost.com/media
Email: maya@mayafrost.com
Publication: Lucid Longing on Substack
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mayafrost
WHY NOW?
We are experiencing escalating climate anxiety, anticipatory grief, and existential dread as we recognize that the future presents unprecedented losses and challenges.
Maya offers a unique, transdisciplinary perspective on how individuals can respond to these challenges without denial, doom, or disengagement.
TRENDING TOPICS
- Despairalysis: When Awareness Limits Action
- Lucid Longing: Restoring Agency Despite Uncertainty
- Adaptive Engagement Through Crafted Habits and Habitats
KEY QUESTIONS
- What makes action psychologically possible without bypassing grief?
- What happens after awareness and emotional processing?
- How can longing, imagination and attention contribute to agency?
- How can we remain engaged as things get more challenging?
- What does adaptive capacity look like in everyday life?
SELECTED APPEARANCES (SPRING/SUMMER 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
Note: My presentation video is not available here, but this additional WAF interview offers a glimpse into the topics I addressed.
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:
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.
September 2026: 10-page editorial feature of me and my work by Erika Brechtel and her team at Elanoura.
Maya Frost Is Helping Women Move From Paralysis to Purposeful Action
UP NEXT
Speaking at the International Conference on Environmental Mindfulness in Rome, Italy in September.
Topic: From Awareness to Agency: Disrupting Despairalysis Through Lucid Longing
