Work With Me | Private Companioning™ with Maya Frost
I offer private companioning to help thoughtful leaders, creatives, and organizers disrupt despairalysis, rewild imagination, and inspire adaptive engagement.
My process is based on the updated understanding of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and the most effective method for reducing anxiety through habit change techniques and mindfulness practices.
But it's also inspired by own lived experience of overcoming grief, fear, helplessness, and hopelessness.
I have served as a trusted companion for over 200 individuals around the world. We partner through life's most profound transitions, from personal crossroads and collapse awareness to creative practices and engaged adaptation.
Companioning isn't what I teach. It's how I work.
Why Collapse Companioning Is So Effective In This Time of Unraveling
Recent research shows that anxiety often functions as a habit that can be changed through awareness, curiosity, and small daily shifts.
Inspired by contemplative practices and the work of Dr. Judson Brewer, James Clear, and Dr. BJ Fogg, I combine environmental mindfulness, behavioral psychology, and tiny habit shifts into a transformative process.
It's a space for honest reflection about the accelerating changes that are creating new and unpredictable challenges.
We address what is happening, how you're feeling about it, and explore your most natural ways to build personal discernment skills while engaging creatively alongside those in your community.
Together, we design both your habits and your habitats to naturally support your flourishing.
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Why Collapse-Aware People Are Choosing Companioning Over Coaching or Therapy
Coaching and therapy were not designed to deal with our reality-triggered grief and anger and our escalating anxiety about the future.
Weekly and biweekly sessions were not intended to effectively address and reverse the growing sense of despair fueled by hourly updates about relentless change.
But Collapse Companioning™ is specifically designed and tested for this moment, these struggles, and our human desire to understand, adapt, and thrive together.
For me, resilience and adaptation have been a means of survival.
After years of a challenging childhood, surviving a car accident at 15 that killed four other teens profoundly shaped me.
In the aftermath, someone introduced me to meditation. That did not help me as a suicidal teen, but mindfulness did.
I created a simple awareness game to reconnect to the awe and wonder sparked by everything around me. I got good at it. And it saved me.
I earned a degree in psychology and Asian Studies, and spent my senior year studying in nine Asian countries, focusing on Buddhist philosophy.
Over the past 50 years, I’ve explored many forms of mindfulness.
I have learned that traditional meditation is rarely the best fit for people who are overwhelmed, grieving, or exhausted.
Meditating in Sri Lanka in 1981.
Early Inspiration From Joanna Macy That Influenced the Development of Collapse Companioning™
My work has been influenced by Joanna Macy and her early “despair work" in the 90s, which evolved into The Work That Reconnects, blending deep ecology, systems thinking, and mindful awareness.
While Collapse Companioning™ is distinct from The Work That Reconnects, it shares a focus on emotional honesty and transforming eco-anxiety into meaningful action and connection.
In my 40s, I was processing the deaths of three of my brothers (one of AIDS, two by suicide), and I remembered my little mindfulness game that had helped me cope after the accident.
I turned it into an eyes-wide-open, real-world mindfulness training program and game that inspired thousands of people in more than 100 countries.
The First Collapse Companioning Clients As the COVID Pandemic Hit
I began offering Collapse Companioning in early 2020 as COVID spread across the world. Living under strict lockdown in Buenos Aires, I could not stop thinking about the profound grief that many were facing in isolation.
Through my nonprofit networks, I offered to do pro bono work supporting women who were overwhelmed by grief and their recognition of our failed systems.
By listening deeply and consistently with care and loving presence, I developed the companioning process I use today.
While my work shares some common ground with Dr. Alan Wolfelt's companioning approach to grief (we both coined the term the same year), it focuses specifically on the grief, uncertainty, and disorientation that arise from awareness of collapsing systems and their impact on us.
I chose as the symbol for my work the marigold, a humble and beloved companion plant known for its protective presence providing a healthy habitat for other plants.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Daily Inquiry, Prompts, Reflection, and Inspiration That Turns Despair Into Meaning and Metamorphosis
We interact daily for 30 consecutive days.
This is mostly asynchronous, giving you time to consider each question or prompt before responding.
And it is precisely this space before responding that leads to insights daily. We continue in an easy flow that naturally builds momentum.
Collapse Companioning Pricing and Availability
30-Day Private Companioning Experience
Includes a personalized combination of:
- live conversations
- voice-note support
- written reflection
- strategic guidance
- weekly co-creative support during the following month
Investment: US$2000
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 Private 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 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 those who:
- value flexibility over formulas
- appreciate emotionally intelligent conversation
- seek meaningful transformation
- are longing to respond thoughtfully and act intentionally rather than endlessly processing
- want individual support that is nuanced and deeply personalized
Getting Started Is Easy
Let's explore what's calling to you, and how paying attention to it might transform your perspective and your possibilities.
Simply fill out the short form to start a conversation with me directly.
I look forward to hearing from you!