You´re collapse-aware. Now what?
🌿 You’re awake and aware of our colliding crises.
You recognize the urgency of our predicament, and you´ve processed it to the point of exhaustion.
So, what now? How do you respond to all that is happening in mindful and meaningful ways?
Sure, you can do your best to stay present as everything shifts.
But presence alone can feel...passive.
It validates disengagement.
And that leads to paralysis. (Bingo! That´s their plan.)
No. You´re longing to be intentional and engaged at this critical moment.
You want to turn the energy of your grief and anger into something powerful and practical.
But how, exactly?
That’s where I come in.
🌿 This is collapse-forward living.
A grounded, creative way of being human in a world that’s unraveling.
I’m Maya—an educator, writer, and artist working with individuals who are navigating personal and planetary collapse.
I have worked with clients in 20+ countries. Through a deep and enlivening process, we transform despair into creative energy and inspired action to protect the people and places they love.
Because collapse—with all its anguish and heartbreak—is also a threshold.
It is a disorientation that calls for clarity, imagination, and intention.
I’m here to help you move through it with curiosity and courage.
What I offer is not therapy or coaching.
It’s something older and more human: companioning.
I walk with those ready to stop waiting and worrying and start creating and living in aligned ways now.
Turn your awareness of what’s ending into energy for what’s emerging.
🌱 What Changes When We Work Together
People come to me feeling stuck, scattered, or silently 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
🔶better able to act without burning out or shutting down
🔶connected to others who are awakened and longing to engage
🔶deeply rooted to place and community
Each individual imagines, designs, and initiates a project.
Something useful and uplifting that unifies others.
Your project doesn´t have to be huge to have an impact.
In fact, small is beautiful, and local is LIFE.
You don´t have to be believe that everything is going to be okay.
And you don´t need to believe that everything is going to hell, either.
You just need to believe there is a way forward that feels true, humane, and life-giving.
Oh, and joyful.
Because joy makes us stronger and more connected to what matters most.
And there´s this: it can all come together in about a month.
(Yes, really.)
¨I was already feeling so much loss after my divorce. Then, my dad died. It split me open. I knew I needed a new path.
Maya´s process helped me reclaim my choices. I committed to big changes, and took action immediately. I quit my job, sold my 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 guided me through a creative re-imagining process that led to being offered an amazing new role!
Bringing others together to face our challenges is empowering. I feel like a different person now. I honestly believe that this experience with Maya saved my life.¨
Maria - former events producer, now director of a community-building organization
🧡 How 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 toward the future you long to create for yourself and those around you.
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 and despair
🔸experiencing emotional and mental fatigue that blocks imagination
🔸feeling a sense of isolation and longing for connection and community
🔸looking for an inspired way forward for themselves and their loved ones
A 30-day intensive (fully remote) for those who are ready to turn their despair into depth, discovery, dreaming, daring, and DOING.
✴️ACT TO ADAPT™ Co-Creative Partnership for Leaders
For founders, executives, change-makers, and creators who must respond to uncertainty and lead with clarity, integrity, and courage. We focus on the resilience and adaptation practices you need now that will guide your team and organization forward.
A 3-month co-creative partnership for those seeking thoughtful, aligned, and doable ways forward.
If you are a:
🔶 change-maker seeking enlivened energy to continue your critical work
🔶 leader recognizing your pivotal role and ready to rise to the challenge
🔶 coach looking to support your clients in new ways as they navigate uncertainty
🔶 thinker longing to do something meaningful with your knowledge
🔶 dreamer imagining turning your ideas into collaborative action
NOW is the time to expand your capacity for creativity.
✨ My Story (The Short Version)
I’ve lived through my own collapses—personal, spiritual, existential.
Early abuse. Ongoing losses. Grief that rearranged me at the molecular level.
What I learned:
Collapse introduces you to the truest version of yourself.
I have walked with over 200 individual clients around the world.
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.
I got to the point where I could barely look at my kids without getting weepy. It felt impossible to protect them. They became fearful. It broke me.
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...and nearly bilingual! I am so thankful for this new life.¨
Lisa - former county administrator, now owner of a natural foods store
¨It became harder to imagine a future where people could be universally cared for. 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 felt like a relief. I could help those I actually see, and develop a strong web of support that is beautiful and rich. 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, if we choose to see them.
Let´s find the ones that are 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.
Still here?
Maybe you´re searching for ways to get calm, clear, and creative
in just five minutes a day.