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Collapse Awareness

Facing reality and finding emotional clarity,
in companionship with open-hearted people.

Find Community at Our Weekly Meetings

We hold two meetings per week, on Wednesday and Thursday. You are welcome at either. Meetings are free and without obligation. 

In a Collapse Club - Collapse Awareness meeting, you will join like-minded people in a safe, structured space to discuss your concerns about our world’s converging crises. Sign up for a meeting and become a part of our community.

Visit our Event Calendar to see the meeting times in your time zone.

What We Believe In

We believe in healing through connection. Sharing our feelings and experience with others can be deeply healing. When we feel seen, heard, and understood, it can help us integrate difficult emotions and find a way forward. Authentic connection is a powerful antidote to despair.

We aim to provide emotional support. Grappling with the implications of collapse and our own mortality can be emotionally overwhelming. Having others who understand and validate our feelings can help us feel less alone and provide much-needed support during difficult times.

Our intention is to help each other to live with authenticity, compassion, and integrity. We cannot solve collapse, but we can find ways to hold it in a larger context of meaning, beauty, and love.

We hope you’ll join us!

When you sign up on this site, you'll see we have three newsletters: Collapse Awareness, Solidarity Prepping, and Global Alliance. You're welcome to subscribe to all three, but if you just want to attend our "sharing meetings," choose the "Collapse Awareness" newsletter. You can change your subscription (or unsubscribe) at any time.

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Our Meetings

Agenda

Our meetings have a simple agenda built around questions which invite you to share your personal experience of collapse. Meetings last about 90 minutes.

1. Introduction/Grounding

The Conveners welcome participants and give a sketch of the meeting flow. The Conveners lead a short grounding exercise to help the group focus on the upcoming meeting.

2. Check-In: What have you noticed about collapse this week?

This is a brief check-in, about 2 minutes per person. This helps us toward a common reality and gives us a context for our sharing.

Some specific questions to consider:

  1. What have you noticed about collapse this week?
  2. What captured your attention?
  3. Or, just tell us how you are.

3. Circles: How are you living with collapse?

The meeting divides into breakout rooms of 6-8 people. Each room includes a Convener or an experienced participant to help guide the process.

Each participant has about five minutes to share their reflections about collapse. Whatever you wish to share is welcome, or consider 'The Three Questions:

  1. What are your feelings about collapse?
  2. Are you making changes in how you live?
  3. What are you discovering by living in a new way?

Each person speaks without interruption. The rest of the group listens and attends. This sharing is the heart of the meeting.

4. Glimmers: What brings you joy in the midst of collapse?

To end the meeting we share 'Glimmers,' which are the opposite of 'Triggers.' Glimmers are like tiny sparks of positivity that can appear even during difficult or challenging situations. They are those little moments that make you feel good, happy, or proud, even when things are tough.

5. Goodbye

The Conveners thank the participants, provide information about future sessions, and wish everyone goodbye.

Meet Our
Conveners

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.