About
Collapse Club is...
Regular Zoom Meetings: Bringing people together to share their experience of collapse and to cultivate communal wisdom. (See our Meetings page.)
An online community: Providing continuing connection and ongoing dialogue among members. (Visit our Facebook Group.)
A school of thought: Exploring beneficial ways to live in the time of collapse. (See our Resources pages: Toolbox, Soundtrack, and Writings.)
Our Conveners
David Baum
David B. is the host of the Collapse Club video channel on YouTube. He went to Harvard for three semesters, majoring in "turn on, tune in, and drop out." Subsequently, he worked in the theatre, animal sheltering, and neighborhood emergency preparedness. He was a volunteer for the Deep Adaptation Forum from 2019 to 2021. He writes on Substack. Email David.
Wendy Freeman
Wendy is a volunteer for the Deep Adaptation Forum and does research on Personal Transformation and unlearning processes. Email Wendy.
Susan Porter
Susan is an artist with 27 years recovery in Al-Anon and a desire for connection with the collapse-aware community. Prints of Susan's artwork are available at FineArtAmerica.
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. Email Matthew.