The relentless flood of bad news challenges our ability to make sense of the world. For those of us who are sensitive to the dissolution of consensus reality, collapse forces us to look inward. How do we know what we should do? How do we give expression to our yearning for love and community? Where shall we find the courage to go on? --- At Collapse Club, we offer two 'Emotional Resilience' meetings each week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowle...
7 Feb 2026
'Transcendence' - with Matthew & David
In this freewheeling episode, Matthew Painton and David Baum start with the dictionary definition of "transcendence" (to climb to another level), discuss different kinds of transcendence (sacred and mundane), examine the relationship of transcendence to collapse (integrative or bypass), and end up describing how Collapse Club meetings help to transcend despair (relationship and metabolization). --- At Collapse Club, we offer two meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If...
26 Jan 2026
'Accelerating Collapse' - with Matthew & David
Collapse is accelerating, both in the realm of climate and in politics. The weather is becoming unreliable, and the governments are turning fascist. David Baum and Matthew Painton, Conveners at Collapse Club, talk about how our "inner work" can still be useful to help us access our wisdom, humanity, and calm, even in the face of increasing threat. --- At Collapse Club, we offer two meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of col...
3 Sept 2025
The Fivefold Path of Collapse Acceptance - with Susan, Matthew, and David
Many of us feel we are living in a fake world. The world of "business-as-usual" cannot last, and yet we are required to live here, even though we see it is collapsing around us. To live in the world but to see beyond the world creates a certain pressure in the mind. In some circles, it's called "cognitive dissonance." In our circle, we call it "collapse awareness." When the pressure becomes too great, we feel we must leave the fake world to find a reality that we recognize. The journey from i...
27 Aug 2025
'Distress & Enlivenment' - with Matthew and David
Collapse causes acute distress in people who learn how things really are, beyond the world of "business-as-usual." If distress is not "metabolized" in a group process, it can cause us to freeze up or spiral into despair. But if we make connections with others who share our understanding, we can take "wise action" which leads to "enlivenment," even in the shadow of collapse. -- At Collapse Club, we offer two meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with y...
19 Aug 2025
'Awareness vs. Acceptance' - with David & Matthew
How can we become "settled" with the idea that the world is ending? How are we supposed to "remain human" as we witness the crisis and terror of collapse? Where are the other people who can accompany us on our journey from "collapse awareness" to "collapse acceptance?" David Baum and Matthew Painton share their personal journeys to acceptance, and talk about facilitating groups where other people are following the same path. -- For a seminal exploration of these ideas, see Karen Perry's 'Fift...
11 Aug 2025
'You Are Not Alone,' with David and Matthew
People who are collapse-aware live "dual lives," with one foot in the world of "business-as-usual" and the other in a world where "normal" has lost its meaning. It's very lonely when no one — not even your closest friends and family — can talk with you about collapse and the feelings it brings up. Online meetings can relieve our isolation by acting as a "village" in which our planet-scale grief can be metabolized. Sharing our knowledge and feelings can help us "wake up" from the delusions of ...
2 Jun 2025
Kimberley Hare - Building a Community: Resilience, Courage, and Clarity
David B. talks with Kimberley Hare from Heartfordshire, England. Last year, Kim published a book called 'At the Edge: What Is Mine to Do? And Who Can I Do It With?' She offers training and support for people who are collapse-aware. Kim offers a retreat called 'The Edge', where people work through their feelings about collapse and discover what is theirs to do in response. People who attend her retreat go into their communities to help others, in a rippling cascade of resilience, courage...
27 May 2025
Terry LePage - Being Calm and Courageous In a Time of Chaos
David B. talks with Terry LePage, who is a facilitator at the Deep Adaptation Forum, a minister with various churches in California, and author of the book 'Eye of the Storm: Facing climate and social chaos with calm and courage'. Terry shares her visceral reaction to the election of "47," and recounts her search for tranquility, community, and connection to the Earth. Terry's book: https://opendoorcommunication.org/eye/get-the-book -- At Collapse Club, we offer two meetings per week where w...
17 May 2025
Matthew Painton - Finding What's Worthwhile, No Matter What
David B. talks with Matthew Painton from Chichester, England. Matthew is a therapist and coach who helps people work through the difficult emotions that arise from becoming collapse-aware. Matthew says it’s valuable to “metabolize” those feelings, because when we’ve done that, we know who we really are. Matthew's Coaching Website: https://www.deepadaptationcoaching.com/ Matthew's Photography: https://www.instagram.com/mattpaintonphotography -- At Collapse Club, we offer two meetings per week...
10 Jun 2024
Charlotte Del Signore - Searching for your authentic self.
My guest is Charlotte Del Signore, a career coach and mindfulness teacher who is seeking her authentic self, and is helping other people — particularly younger people — find themselves, as well.
Charlotte lived for a year in a camper van, traveling the countryside of England, and she’s now looking to establish herself in London, where she hopes to find, or to build, a community of people who can face collapse together.
Find Charlotte on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-delsignore-career-coach/) and on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@generalistcoach).
We spoke on May 28th, 2024.
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At Collapse Club (https://www.collapseclub.com), we offer three meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter (https://www.collapseclub.com/sign-up). We look forward to seeing you!
For previous interviews, please visit the Collapse Club YouTube Channel (https://youtube.com/@CollapseClub).
And for a jaunt further afield, please visit David B.'s Substack, 'Den of the Feral Mystic (https://feralmystic.substack.com)'.
3 Jun 2024
Claude Schryer - Art and action in the time of collapse.
Claude Schryer is a sound artist and community organizer in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada. In this conversation with David B., Claude talks about the role of art and artists in responding to collapse.
Claude is the author of the newsletter 'A Calm Presence (https://acalmpresence.substack.com/)' where he publishes "short, practical essays about collapse acceptance, adaptation, response and art."
Claude also hosts the podcast 'Conscient (https://www.conscient.ca/)' which offers "conversations about the ecological crisis with brilliant, passionate, and visionary artists and cultural workers on the theme of 'preparing for the end of the world as we know it and creating the conditions for other possible worlds to emerge'."
We spoke on May 28th, 2024.
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At Collapse Club (https://www.collapseclub.com), we offer three meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter (https://www.collapseclub.com/sign-up). We look forward to seeing you!
For previous interviews, please visit the Collapse Club YouTube Channel (https://youtube.com/@CollapseClub).
And for a jaunt further afield, please visit David B.'s Substack, 'Den of the Feral Mystic (https://feralmystic.substack.com)'.
27 May 2024
Lisa Gordon - Anger, Responsibility, & the 'Four Rs'
Lisa Gordon is a facilitator for the Deep Adaptation Forum, where she has run meetings about anger and responsibility, and about “The Four Rs,” — Resilience, Relinquishment, Restoration, and Reconciliation — which are the founding principles of Deep Adaptation.
In this conversation, we talk about the importance of taking responsibility for your anger. By being conscious of how anger affects you, you can avoid acting out in a way that may damage your community.
For more about the Deep Adaptation Forum visit their website (https://deepadaptation.info). To find Deep Adaptation events, visit their event calendar (https://teamup.com/ ksgwdbu1oxnhu8npdi).
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At Collapse Club (https://www.collapseclub.com), we offer three meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter (https://www.collapseclub.com/sign-up). We look forward to seeing you!
For previous interviews, please visit the Collapse Club YouTube Channel (https://youtube.com/@CollapseClub).
And for a jaunt further afield, please visit David B.'s Substack, 'Den of the Feral Mystic (https://feralmystic.substack.com)'.
20 May 2024
Susan Porter - Letting Go of Anger
In this episode, Susan Porter and David B. talk about collapse acceptance, grief, and letting go of anger.
"Acceptance for me is that the reality of the situation is not going to be what I want, but that's the reality of it. I can either hurt myself by resisting that, or I can let it go completely and let it be what it is," Susan says.
Susan is the co-founder of the Collapse Club meetings. She brings long experience with the 12-Step group Al-Anon, whose methods have informed what we do. She lives in Amarillo, Texas.
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At Collapse Club (https://www.collapseclub.com), we offer three meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter (https://www.collapseclub.com/sign-up). We look forward to seeing you!
For previous interviews, please visit the Collapse Club YouTube Channel (https://youtube.com/@CollapseClub).
And for a jaunt further afield, please visit David B.'s Substack, 'Den of the Feral Mystic (https://feralmystic.substack.com)'.
9 May 2024
Terry Rankin - Love, Hubris, & Revolution
Terry Rankin is a philosopher and activist working for a revolution of love, truth, peace, and justice. Terry spans the two worlds of Stoic philosophy and deep religious faith. We talked about "loving your fate" while working to fend off the rise of global fascism.
Terry's writes on Substack at Lifesigns Earth (https://terryrankin.substack.com/).
We spoke on May 3rd 2024.
❤️ David B.
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At Collapse Club (https://www.collapseclub.com), we offer three meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter (https://www.collapseclub.com/sign-up). We look forward to seeing you!
For previous interviews, please visit the Collapse Club YouTube Channel (https://youtube.com/@CollapseClub).
And for a jaunt further afield, please visit David B.'s Substack, 'Den of the Feral Mystic (https://feralmystic.substack.com)'.
7 May 2024
Emma Mary Gathergood - Women, Men, & the Earth
Emma Mary Gathergood is an ardent feminist and a psychedelic earth listener, as well as a retired mental health therapist and holistic life coach. In this Collapse Club conversation with David B., she says that women have tried to lead the way toward a better world, but men have been slow to catch on.
Emma Mary says that we must find connection to "something bigger than us," if we want things to work out.
"If people had listened to the Earth before, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now," she says. "And if that doesn't ring true for people, then pray. Go up to Spirit. Invite the Godhead to come in and make a suggestion."
Emma Mary leads a weekly workshop called 'Earth Listening' at the Deep Adaptation forum. To attend the workshop, please visit the Deep Adaptation event calendar at https://teamup.com/ksgwdbu1oxnhu8npdi and look for 'Earth Listening.'
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At Collapse Club (https://www.collapseclub.com), we offer three meetings per week where we share our experience of collapse. If you feel alone with your knowledge of collapse and need people to talk to, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter (https://www.collapseclub.com/sign-up). We look forward to seeing you!
For previous interviews, please visit the Collapse Club YouTube Channel (https://youtube.com/@CollapseClub).
And for a jaunt further afield, please visit David B.'s Substack, 'Den of the Feral Mystic (https://feralmystic.substack.com)'.
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