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The Long Time Academy

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

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.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Long Time Academy episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Long Time Academy for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Long Time Academy episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Long Time Academy - Part One: How We Got To NOW

Part One: How We Got To NOW

The Long Time Academy

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11/05/21 • 63 min

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 look at how we’ve arrived at a short-term culture that is obsessed with short-term thinking, quick fixes and instant gratification. We’ll consider how the industrial revolution reshaped our relationship with time and why getting long-term could be essential to the survival of our species. Over your time in the academy you’ll learn how thinking long term can help make you feel more present, more connected, less anxious and more hopeful about the future.

Are you ready? Good. Because class is now in session.

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Celeste Headlee, Roman Krznaric, Toby Ord, Diane Schenandoah, Michelle Schenandoah, Jamil Zaki and Finley Rainbow.

RELATED LINKS

thelongtimeacademy.com

headspace.com

scenerystudios.com

thelongtimeproject.org

Celeste Headlee’s book, Do Nothing How to Break Away from Overworking Overdoing and Underliving, is available HERE, and in all good local bookshops

Roman Krznaric’s book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World, is available HERE, and in all good local bookshops

Toby Ord’s Book, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity is available here and in all good local bookshops

Jamil Zaki’s book, The War for Kindness is available here and in all good local bookshops

Michelle Schenandoah is the founder of Rematriation magazine - read here

The Long Time Academy is produced by Scenery Studios, and brought to you by Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project.

CREDITS

The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe

Producer are Madeleine Finlay and Ivor Manley

Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer

Original artwork by Mavi Morais

Design by Loz Ives at Fieldwork

Original music and sound design by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia

Queer Eye clip courtesy of Scout Entertainment, ITV Productions and Netflix.

The New Women's Shuffle Dance song performed by Gaehnew Printup

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The Long Time Academy - Welcome to The Academy!

Welcome to The Academy!

The Long Time Academy

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10/22/21 • 4 min

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.

Celeste Headlee, Brian Eno, George The Poet and adrienne maree brown are among the 30 strong faculty who have come together to teach one of the most important classes of our time.

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The Long Time Academy - BONUS Part Six Practice: Your Long Time Ritual
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12/10/21 • 9 min

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 the long time for you. It could be a pebble, an acorn, a seed ... anything that connects you to the long past, the long future, or time itself.

The Long Time Ritual is written and read by Ella Saltmarshe.

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The Long Time Academy - Part Six: The Art (and Pop Culture) of Getting Long Time
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12/10/21 • 70 min

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 the power to shift our collective identity. Culture doesn’t just reflect societal norms, it has the power to change, iterate and manifest new ones.

We’ll meet the artists, creators and curators who are using time as both their medium and their message, and explore the role of creativity in shifting us to a long-term society.

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Brian Eno, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Katie Paterson, Jeremy Lent, Anab Jain and Sherri Mitchell.

Discover more about Brian Eno here.

Find out more about the work of Bridgit Antoinette Evans and the Pop Culture Collaborative here.

Discover Katie Paterson’s work here and delve into the Future Library.

Find out about Jeremy Lent’s work including The Patterning Instinct here.

Experience the work of Anab Jain and Superflux here.

Find out about Sherri Mitchell’s projects and writing here.

If you want to delve deeper into Long Time ideas, here is a suggested reading list!

NON-FICTION

Deep Time Reckoning - Vincent Ialenti

FutureGen - Jane Davidson

Timefulness - Marcia Bjornerud

The Precipice - Toby Ord

Pip Pip - Jay Griffiths

The Clock of the Long Now - Steward Brand

The Good Ancestor - Roman Krznaric

Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth

Sandtalk - Tyson Yunkaporta

The Patterning Instinct - Jeremy Lent

The War for Kindness - Jamil Zaki

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall-Kimmerer

Underland - Robert Macfarlane

The Oldest Living Things in the World - Rachel Sussman

Sacred Instructions - Sherri Mitchell

FICTION

Kindred- Octavia Butler

The Parable Series - Octavia Butler

The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

The OverStory - Richard Powers

Man V. Nature - Diane Cook

Love & Other Thought Experiments - Sophie Ward

Barkskins - Annie Proulx

Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford

CREDITS

The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios.

The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe

Produced by Ivor Manley and Madeleine Finlay. This episode was also produced by Eli Block.

Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer

Original artwork by Mavi Morais

Design by Loz Ives & Lewis Kay-Thatcher

Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan C...

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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 hemisphere of your brain awaken with new ideas as he guides and inspires you to build and create a beautiful, decolonised world of your very own...

Written and read by Ahmed Best, with thanks to Lonny Avi Brooks.

Find out more about Afro-rithms from the Future here

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The Long Time Academy - Part Five: Decolonising The Future
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12/03/21 • 66 min

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 visions of an alternative future look like?

This episode explores how historically, inequalities in the present have been projected into the future, both in terms of how the future has been portrayed, and how it comes to be realised.

We look at the impacts of colonialism in the past, present and future, meeting the people changing this on the ground - from activists, to artists, to sci-fi fans.

Whatever the future holds, it is in our hands. Paying attention to the patterns of our time reveals the importance of embracing and cultivating diversity now, and for the long time.

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Alisha B Wormsley, adrienne maree brown, Safiya Noble, Jay Griffiths, Joshua Virasami, Annauk Olin, Lonny Avi Brooks & Ahmed Best

Find out more about Alisha B Wormsley’s work here

Find adrienne maree brown’s most recent book, Grievers here, and listen to her Octavia’s Parables podcast here

Get Joshua Virasami’s book, How to Change it: Make a Difference, here and in all good local bookshops.

Find Safiya Noble’s book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism here and in all good local bookshops

Jay Griffiths’s latest book How To Rebel, her book Pip Pip: A Sideways Look At Time and all her other brilliant works are available HERE and in all good local bookshops

Here more about Annauk Olin’s work here

Listen to Lonny Brooks’ & Ahmed Best’s The Afrofuturist Podcast here and find out more about the Afro-rithms from the Future game here

CREDITS

The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios.

The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe

Produced by Ivor Manley and Madeleine Finlay

Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer

Original artwork by Mavi Morais

Design by Loz Ives & Lewis Kay-Thatcher

Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia

East Liberty news report clip courtesy of KDKA-TV CBS Pittsburgh

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The Long Time Academy - BONUS Part Four Practice: The Words Before All Else
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11/26/21 • 21 min

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 creation.

Usually delivered whenever people gather to make a decision, it can also be done as an individual practice first thing in the morning - “ideally before your feet hit the floor” - or last thing at night.

With a great many thanks to Mama Bear and Michelle Schenandoah.

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The Long Time Academy - Part Four: Future Tense Politics
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11/26/21 • 66 min

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 interests.

In this episode we meet the people changing this both from within government and outside it, with their imaginative and innovative - yet highly realistic - Long Time approaches to politics and law. We travel to ancient Greece, hear from teenagers suing their governments, ministers creating new laws to care for future generations, academics in Japan who are using theatrical methods to enable policymakers to feel into the future, and indigenous wisdom-keepers whose oldest living democracy on the planet shows us what a political system that cares for all future earth-dwellers looks like.

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Roman Krznaric, Michelle Schenandoah, Mama Bear, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Jane Davidson, Julia Olson and Levi Draheim.

Leave us a voice note here telling us how listening to this series is making you feel about the present and the future - we listen to all your messages and would love to include some in future episodes.

Irish referendum clips courtesy of Courtesy of The Citizens Assembly - Youtube Channel and ITV News

Julia Olson in court audio courtesy the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Official YouTube Channel, December 11th 2017

Welsh devolution referendum results Courtesy of BBC News, 1997

Kurt Vonnegut clip from NOW October 2005 courtesy of PBS

Sophie Howe, Welsh Future Generations Commissioner clip courtesy of Senedd Cymru/ Welsh Parliament, September, Youtube, September 2019

CREDITS

The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios.

The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe

Produced by Ivor Manley and Madeleine Finlay

Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer

Original artwork by Mavi Morais

Design by Loz Ives & Lewis Kay-Thatcher

Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia

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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 teacher Dora Kamau, who also reads the meditation.

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The Long Time Academy - Part Three: Once Upon an Economy
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11/19/21 • 67 min

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 to change this narrative. Ella meets poet, podcaster, and economics student, GEORGE THE POET and together they visit “the belly of the beast” - The Bank Of England - and begin to reimagine a new economic storyline.

We then meet people all over the world, creating the new economic systems that work for the long-term future of all inhabitants of the planet. This is economics for people who feel like economics isn’t for them!

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, George The Poet, Jason Hickel, Kate Raworth, Andy Haldane, Temuera Hall and Sandy Darity, as well as Immy Kaur, Eduard Müller, Jared Bybee and Fanny Brøholm.

George the Poet’s latest project Common Ground encourages interaction with his Peabody Award-winning podcast Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

Jason Hickel’s fascinating work can be found HERE

Find out more about Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics in action HERE

More about Temuera Hall’s work can be found HERE

More about William Sandy Darity’s book From Here to Equality HERE

Watch Greta Thunberg's full speech at the September 2019 UN Climate Action Summit HERE

CREDITS

The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios.

The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe

Produced by Ivor Manley and Madeleine Finlay with research by Momoe Ikeda-Chelminska

Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer

Original artwork by Mavi Morais

Design by Loz Ives and Lewis Kay-Thatcher

Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia

Clip of Greta Thunberg at the September 2019 UN Climate Action Summit courtesy of the United Nations

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How many episodes does The Long Time Academy have?

The Long Time Academy currently has 14 episodes available.

What topics does The Long Time Academy cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Documentary, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.

What is the most popular episode on The Long Time Academy?

The episode title 'BONUS Part Six Practice: Your Long Time Ritual' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Long Time Academy?

The average episode length on The Long Time Academy is 37 minutes.

When was the first episode of The Long Time Academy?

The first episode of The Long Time Academy was released on Oct 22, 2021.

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