How might we consider collapse as a a transformative process that brings us together through loss and renewal?

In this episode, I speak with Maya Frost. Maya is a creative adaptation strategist, grief worker, and trauma‑informed facilitator who specializes in what she calls “creative adaptation": helping collapse‑aware individuals disrupt their despair and cultivate joy even as systems erode. As the founder of Collapse Forward and the Doom to Bloom™ process, she works with clients across more than 20 countries to transform “despairalysis” into grounded gratitude, rewilded imagination, and enlivened engagement. Maya's roots lie in alternative education and creativity‑based healing: she began by teaching mindfulness and creative play to thousands online. She’s also the author of The New Global Student, a playful guide to global education alternatives. In recent years, she has gained recognition for her “post‑doom optimism”—a refusal to flatten complexity into despair and instead engage collapse with creative resistance and realistic hope. We discuss:

🥥 How glossing over the truth around collapse risks giving a false sense of reality that eventually leads to greater despair;

🥥 The importance of having hard conversations, out in the open, so that we might respond, not in spite of, but thanks to the struggle;

🥥 How there is much we. can do right now to adapt, refusing paralysis even faced against tremendous odds.

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