Part One
How We Got To NOW
Class is now in session!
Life is short, but time is really, really long. In Part 1, we look at how we’ve arrived at a short-term culture that is obsessed with 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.
Long Time Practice: Human Layers
An immersive, emotional time-travel experience read by Ella Saltmarshe.
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 connection to the lives of past and future ancestors, read by host Ella Saltmarshe.
We’ve designed a set of tools to put the ideas explored in this episode into practice.
SHOW NOTES
Celeste Headlee’s book, Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It, is available for pre-order. More information here.
Roman Krznaric’s latest book, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking, is available here, and in all good local bookshops.
Toby Ord’s Book, The Precipice, 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
CREDITS
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 & Lewis Kay-Thatcher.
Original music, sound design and mixing 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.
The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios.
Meet our guests
Celeste Headlee
Celeste is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. An expert in conversation, human nature, reclaiming common humanity and finding well-being. Celeste is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media and a highly sought consultant. Her TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 23 million total views.
Find out more here.
Roman Krznaric
Roman is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His latest book is The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World. He is founder of the world’s first Empathy Museum and is a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation and a member of the Club of Rome.
Find out more here.
Diane Schenandoah
A Faithkeeper of the Oneida Nation, Diane is a traditional titleholder who carries the responsibility of upholding, sharing and honoring Haudenosaunee spirituality and lifeways. She was born into a large Haudenosaunee family and resides in her ancestral Onʌyota’:aka (Oneida) Nation homelands in upstate New York.
Toby Ord
Toby is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. His current research is on the longterm future of humanity. His new book, The Precipice, explores these topics. Toby is also the founder of the international society Giving What We Can and has co-founded the wider effective altruism movement.
Find out more here.
Michelle Schenandoah
Michelle is an inspirational speaker, writer, thought leader and traditional member of the Onʌyota’:aka (Oneida) Nation Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She is the founder of Rematriation and the non-profit Kanenhi:io Ionkwaienthos. Raised in a family of traditional leadership, she carries the values and responsibilities of being Haudenosaunee throughout her life.
Jamil Zaki
Jamil is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. He is the author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World. Using tools from psychology and neuroscience, he and his colleagues examine how empathy works and how people can learn to empathize more effectively. His writing on these topics has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic.