Walk. Experience. Act.
Explore the Climate Emergency via a transformative walking experience that leads participants into a profound connection with the more-than-human world.
Step back in time.
Deep Time Walk is a transformative journey through 4.6bn years of Earth history via a 4.6km guided walk. It is an invitation to view the world differently, encouraging positive action and advocacy for a regenerative Earth.
We provide tools and resources to empower a global community of changemakers and volunteer facilitators. Our vision is to empower an ensemble of geographically specific and culturally nuanced Deep Time Walks, providing an intercultural story-telling platform that helps bring about a diverse, flourishing ecological civilisation.
If you would like to become a Deep Time Walk facilitator, you can find resources for both English and French versions of the Deep Time Walk (Marche du Temps Profond) via our community network. Once registered on this global network, you can get access to Earth Stations, Holding Space, Bedrock and TerraSheets. Training is also available via the community network.
Field Kit
Deep Time Cards
Unpack a history of our Earth. These 58 beautifully illustrated cards enable anyone to learn about Earth history and gain a perspective of the immensity of deep time. With inspiring quotes, reference data and features to plan your own Deep Time Walk, each card provides a concise summary in 100-million-year time segments.
Deep Time Walk App
A new story of the living Earth. The dramatised Deep Time Walk can be experienced anywhere in the world. Walk 4.6km through 4.6bn years of Earth history, learn about key concepts from Earth’s evolution and experience a unique perspective of deep time. A transformative experience for iOS and Android.
Deep Time Script
Read the poetic script used in our first App. This limited-edition book of the narrative used in the Deep Time Walk App. Recommended for a Ted Hughes Award, ‘The Fool and the Scientist’ is written by award-winning playwright Peter Oswald and scientist Dr. Stephan Harding. Includes a glossary of 120+ specialised terms.
Kate Raworth
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University. Author, Doughnut Economics
“Sometimes the biggest ideas arrive in the smallest packets – so if you want to hold the span of space and time in your hands, these beautiful, mind-stretching Deep Time Cards will show you the way.”
Professor Iain Stewart
UNESCO Chair, Geoscience and Society.
Director, Sustainable Earth Institute
“What a gem! A powerful scientific and geopoetic evocation of how humanity is woven into the fabric of Earth’s remarkable past. Fascinating and humbling in equal measure.”
Mirian Vilela
Executive Director,
Earth Charter International
“A wonderful educational instrument that encourages reflection on the connections between past, present and future.””
News & Blog
July 25, 2024Learn to lead a Deep Time Walk for your organisation or community. Our newly released training programmes (available in English or French) are designed to empower you with everything you need to successfully facilitate a Deep Time Walk and grow your practice.
June 2, 2024Join our new online Community Network to download facilitator resources (in both English and French), connect with others in your area of the world and learn how to lead a Deep Time Walk for a small group. Gain access our key facilitator resources including Earth Stations, Holding Space, Bedrock, TerraSheets and our new Facilitator Compass - the global code of conduct for Deep Time Walk facilitators.
April 22, 2024To celebrate Earth Day, we launched of a number of new materials including significant updates to 'Earth Stations' - a practical guide for narrating a Deep Time Walk and 'Holding Space' - a Head-Heart-Body guide to facilitating a Deep Time Walk experience. We also released a new science guide called 'Bedrock' - which provides the underpinnings of a Deep Time Walk as well as the new 'Terra Sheets' - an editable notebook to support your facilitation.
Creative Excellence
Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km walk through 4.6bn years and was co-created in 2007 by Dr. Stephan Harding in co-ordination with geologist Sergio Maraschin.
The Deep Time Walk app was designed by an experienced team of radio producers, professional actors, award-winning script writers and sprinkled with creative genius, the Deep Time Walk App brings together excellence in science, the arts and appropriate technology to provide a unique experience of Earth history.
OUR PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS
As a small not-for-profit we have been supported by two successful crowdfunding rounds, the last being match-funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. We are currently growing our partnership base to help foster wider understanding of deep time and to show humanity’s deep ancestral history and interconnectedness with all life.
