The Long Time Academy
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
BONUS Part Six Practice: Your Long Time Ritual
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, deepe...
Part Six: The Art (and Pop Culture) of Getting Long Time
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 cultur...
BONUS Part Five Practice: Decolonising Your Imagination with Afro-rithms
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This imaginative and interactive meditation exercise gives you a unique opportunity to experience elements of the Afro-rithms from the Future game wit...
Part Five: Decolonising The Future
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
BONUS Part Four Practice: The Words Before All Else
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A gift to the students of the Academy from Mama Bear, Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council. This traditional Haudenosaunee practice expresse...
Part Four: Future Tense Politics
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
BONUS Part Three Practice: Loving Kindness for Future Generations
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Part Three: Once Upon an Economy
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greta Thunberg famously chided world leaders for pursuing “fairytales of eternal economic growth”. In this episode we learn how short-termism is b...
BONUS Part Two Practice: The Well of Deep Time
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Kessonga Giscombe, this immersive and transformative meditation takes listeners back through time, and through the 4.6 billion year evolution ...
BONUS Part Two Practice: Death Meditation
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Part Two: How To Stretch Time
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
BONUS Part One Practice: Human Layers
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 acr...
Part One: How We Got To NOW
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Welcome to The Academy!
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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,...