About Us

David Baum

David has been attending to collapse since he was a teenager. In high school, he made an extensive study of nuclear weapons and decided that the game is up! He went to Harvard for three semesters, majoring in "turn on, tune in, and drop out." As a volunteer HAM radio operator in the Seattle Emergency Operations Center, he saw the mismatch between the incoming crises and human capability to respond. He was a volunteer for the Deep Adaptation Forum from 2019 to 2021. He writes on Substack. Email David.

Susan Porter

Susan is an artist with over 25 years of membership in 12-step recovery groups. She has a strong desire to connect with and participate in building an online collapse-aware community. She has a Substack where she posts her thoughts on various aspects of collapse and recovery. Prints of Susan's artwork are available at FineArtAmerica. Email Susan.

Matthew Painton

Matthew’s lifelong environmentalism and social activism did not prepare him for the sudden collapse awareness that completely unravelled him in 2017. Since then he has been working closely with fellow coaches, therapists, facilitators and educators to upgrade our sensemaking practices in order to help others get to grips with what is transpiring on earth and to respond with virtue. He coaches Deep Adaptation and full-spectrum sensemaking one-to-one and in groups, does photography to transmute his anxiety into beauty, and lives in the UK. Please email Matthew here:  Matthew's email, if you would like to contact him about coaching.

Teresa P.

Teresa was a member of the U.K. Green Party in the 1980s, a Parliamentary election candidate and the London rep on the Party’s organising committee. Later, Greenpeace kept her informed of the escalating climate and ecological catastrophe. From 2019 she became involved in creative and joyous actions instigated by Extinction Rebellion. Her continuing connection to nonviolent direct action groups (mostly in support roles now) sits alongside her profound acceptance of collapse: direct action might slow it down and is a community of great people who understand what is happening.

Jo Wright

Jo is a retired psychiatrist, avid gardener and writer whose intense awareness and love for her natural environment infused her life lived on three continents. Since childhood she has been attuned to changing and damaged landscapes, but became acutely aware of the acceleration of global warming in the 1980’s. A longtime activist, previously active in Physicians for Social Responsibility in the fight against nuclear weapons, she is now seeking ways to work with grief and despair and efforts to minimize the suffering accompanying collapse.  Art, meditation, gardening and the collapse community are her sources of solace. Email Jo.