The Long Time Academy
Life is short. Time is long. 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 inequality. The Long Time Academy is an immersive and entertaining new podcast that steps into this space with one clear message: changing the way we choose to engage with time can be life-changing, both when it comes to the problems we’re facing day to day, and to the huge threats we’re facing as a species. Hosted by co-founder of The Long Time Project, Ella Saltmarshe, The Long Time Academy hopes to give listeners a sense of spaciousness, awe and passion to become good ancestors.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2021
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 small object that represents …
00:09:51 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
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 systems of our world; it has…
01:10:32 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
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, Ahmed Best. Feel the right hemi…
00:24:10 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
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 white-supremecy. But what do v…
01:06:14 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
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 empathic connection to all of cre…
00:21:12 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
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 years and the sway of vested in…
01:06:52 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
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 Saltmarshe and Headspace teac…
00:14:44 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
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 economic story, and why we need…
01:07:55 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
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. Experience a unique perspect…
00:17:49 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
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 alive. It’s a life-affirming…
00:19:24 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
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 life on earth, and forward into…
01:05:34 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
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, developing an emotional conn…
00:11:17 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
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 longer view. In Part One, we will …
01:03:47 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
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 inequality. The Long Time Ac…
00:04:40 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
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