Turn your despair about what´s ending into energy for what´s emerging.
🌿 You’re collapse-aware.
You recognize the urgency of our colliding crises.
You´re a pattern-reader, a systems-feeler, a signal scout who sees things before others do.
It´s baked into your biology.
But this seeing can feel heavy and isolating.
THE GOOD NEWS:
We can use our clarity to start good things now, right where we are.
Hyper-local action converts grief into creative energy.
🔶 It keeps us coherent.
🔶 It brings us together.
🔶 And it plugs us into the JOY of collaboration.
🌿 This is collapse-forward living.
A grounded, creative way of being human in a world that’s unraveling.
I’m Maya—an adaptation activist, imaginative futurist, and breakthrough strategist working with those navigating personal and planetary collapse.
I have helped clients in 20+ countries transform despair into creative energy and inspired local action to protect the people and places they love.
🌿 What I offer is not therapy or coaching.
It’s something older and deeply human: companioning.
As a collapse companion, I help others find clarity, comfort, and comic relief as things crumble.
I walk (virtually) with those ready to stop waiting and start creating and living in aligned ways now.
“There is no power greater for change than a community discovering what it cares about.”
― Margaret Wheatley
🌿 What Changes When We Work Together
People come to me feeling stuck, crushed, or panicked.
They leave feeling:
🔶clearer about what matters
🔶steadier in their bodies and choices
🔶more imaginative about the future
🔶less alone in their awareness
🔶more creative in their responses
🔶more deeply rooted to place and community
Each individual imagines, designs, and initiates a project that is uplifting and unifying.
And everything starts shifting in about a month.
¨Maya´s deep but enjoyable process helped me reclaim my choices. I committed to big changes, and took action immediately. I quit my job, sold my Manhattan apartment, and moved to a two-bedroom cottage on two acres. It has enhanced every thought, every action, every relationship.
I have a simple small-town life now, but it feels so much richer."
Michael - former media consultant, now founder of a local conservation program
¨I lost the job I had loved for twenty years. I spent months at home, watching terrible news. I hit rock bottom, fearing for myself and the world.
Maya made me laugh again. She guided me through a creative re-imagining process that led to being offered an amazing new role! I honestly believe that this experience with Maya saved my life.¨
Maria - former events producer, now director of a community-building organization
🌿 I offer two ways we can work together:
🔶 PRESENT FOCUS™ 1:1 Companioning Call
An hour-long conversation and access to ongoing support. Explore your ideas and find the clarity and motivation you need to take the next step.
For anyone looking for a clearer path and encouragement to move forward.
🌼 DOOM TO BLOOM™ 1:1 Transformative Series
Deep, attuned companioning for those who are navigating grief while looking for an inspired way forward.
A 30-day intensive (fully remote) to turn despair into depth, discovery, dreaming, daring, and DOING.
If you are a:
🔶 change-maker burned out but still feeling a spark of hope
🔶 leader wondering how to meet this challenge
🔶 coach wanting to help your collapse-aware clients
🔶 parent trying to find practical ways to face the future
🔶 thinker longing to use your knowledge in meaningful ways
🔶 dreamer imagining turning your ideas into action
NOW is the time to expand your capacity for courage, creativity, and connection.
🌿 My Story
I’ve lived through my own collapses—personal and existential.
Grief that rearranged me at the molecular level. Repeatedly.
What I learned:
Collapse introduces you to the truest version of yourself.
For me, this work is not theoretical, academic, or even chosen.
It is what I was born to do.
I may be an accidental grief worker, but it is my calling.
¨I was targeted and harrassed by a citizen upset about his taxes. Even a restraining order did not prevent him from lurking nearby and terrorizing us. Maya helped me pour my fear, anger, and resentment into loving action. She offered support as I moved with my children from the U.S. to France. I feel safe, calm, and happy here, with a loving community and work I adore. My children are thriving! I am so thankful for this new life.¨
Lisa - former county administrator, now owner of a natural foods store
¨I was feeling hopeless about my divided city and the loss of funding for life-saving programs. Maya´s warm (and funny!) guidance helped me turn my advocacy work into something far more local and personal. Bringing the focus to my own neighborhood allowed me to help those I actually see, and develop a strong web of support. I feel grounded now.¨
Nicole - former national director for a non-profit, founder of a new community program
🌿 Collapse cracks us open, but it also reveals hidden gifts.
Let´s find the ones that are right there, just waiting for you.
When I was a child, my grandmother taught me about the power of marigolds as companion plants in the garden, keeping aphids, tomato worms, and squash bugs away.
She told me, "Marigolds are friends that help other plants grow strong."
Because what I offer is wise and creative companioning rather than coaching or counseling, I use marigolds as a beautiful symbol of this collaborative work.
I spent the pandemic stuck in a studio apartment in Buenos Aires for months during one of the longest and strictest lockdowns in the world.
I knew there were people who were suffering terribly all over the world.
And I longed to help.