The Long Time Academy

BONUS Part Six Practice: Your Long Time Ritual

This Long Time Ritual enables you to sense into your unique location in the great web of life. Use it whenever you’d like to drop into longer, deeper time.  You’ll need a

Part Six: The Art (and Pop Culture) of Getting Long Time

In our final episode we dive into the role art and culture play in cultivating long-termism at scale.  Far from being window dressing, art and culture forms the operating

BONUS Part Five Practice: Decolonising Your Imagination with Afro-rithms

This imaginative and interactive meditation exercise gives you a unique opportunity to experience elements of the Afro-rithms from the Future game with its co-creator, Ah

Part Five: Decolonising The Future

Whose imagination are we living in, and how does that feel? The last few years have highlighted the raw urgency of the struggle to ensure the future is not dominated by w

BONUS Part Four Practice: The Words Before All Else

A gift to the students of the Academy from Mama Bear, Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council. This traditional Haudenosaunee practice expresses gratitude and empa

Part Four: Future Tense Politics

How can we do politics with a Long Time lens? So often it feels like our leaders are firmly stuck in the short-term, motivated by getting re-elected every four or five ye

BONUS Part Three Practice: Loving Kindness for Future Generations

This Loving-Kindness-meditation-with-a-twist asks us to generate care for people around us today, and for those in the future who have yet to be born. Co-created by Ella

Part Three: Once Upon an Economy

Greta Thunberg famously chided world leaders for pursuing “fairytales of eternal economic growth”. In this episode we learn how short-termism is baked into our current ec

BONUS Part Two Practice: The Well of Deep Time

Read by Kessonga Giscombe, this immersive and transformative meditation takes listeners back through time, and through the 4.6 billion year evolution of our living Earth.

BONUS Part Two Practice: Death Meditation

Written and read by end-of-life specialist, Alua Arthur, this meditation asks us to imagine what it is like to die, in order to bring about a deeper appreciation of being

Part Two: How To Stretch Time

NOTE: this episode contains discussion around death which some people may find difficult. In Part Two we learn how to stretch time! We journey back to the beginning of li

BONUS Part One Practice: Human Layers

This practice has been created by Ella Saltmarshe & Hannah Smith. It is inspired by the work of deep ecologist, Joanna Macy. It enables us to walk across the generations,

Part One: How We Got To NOW

Life is short, but time is really, really long. So long that most of us can’t really comprehend more than a few years at a time into the future. It’s time to take a longe

Welcome to The Academy!

Right now so many of us are burnt out and overwhelmed: by the pandemic; by the uncertainty of the future; and by huge challenges like climate change, systemic racism, and