Turn your despair about what is ending into creative 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.

 

Engaging in meaningful 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.

 

Maya Frost, founder of Collapse Forward, standing in a grassy area with colorful fall leaves on trees in background.

🌿 This is collapse-forward living.

A grounded, creative way of being human in a world that’s unraveling.

 

I’m Maya—an imaginative futurist and adaptation activist working with those navigating personal and planetary collapse.

I have helped clients in 20+ countries transform despair into rewilded imagination and inspired 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 community as things crumble.

Oh, and comic relief.

Because laughter is healing.

 When we begin to see what is still possible, everything shifts.

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🌿 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 and hopeful about what´s possible

🔶more JOYFUL and EXCITED about their future

Each client initiates a small local project.

And that shifts everything in about a month.

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Photo of Michael, a Collapse Forward client who transformed his life through the Doom to Bloom process.

¨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 big-city 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

Photo of Maria, former events producer and Collapse Forward client who credits Maya and the Doom to Bloom process for saving her life.

¨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:

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🔶 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.

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🌼 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.

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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. 

Photo of Maya Frost, founder of Collapse Forward, wearing a white shirt against a turquoise wall with teal, green, and blue painting on the wall.

🌿 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.

 

Photo of Lisa, a Collapse Forward client who worked wit Maya to make the big decision to move her family from th U.S. to France after being targeted and harrassed by a local citizen.

¨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 

Photo of Nicole, a Collapse Forward client who worked with Maya to shift from her role with a national non-profit to founding a new community program in her neighborhood.

¨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. 

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Photo of a blooming orange marigold against a blue sky, with other budding and blooming marigolds in the background.

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. 

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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.