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

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

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.

The Script

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

  • December 5, 2024
    Early 2025 Facilitator Training: now available for registration
    If you’d like to lead your own Deep Time Walks in 2025, we invite you to become part of this thriving community by joining any of the online facilitator training cohorts - starting with these new sessions in early 2025.
  • November 20, 2024
    New Deep Time Walk App coming soon
    As part of our commitment to bringing the Deep Time Walk experience to a wider audience, we’re thrilled to share an update on the development of our new mobile app, which will bring a smoother user experience, improved navigation, and the ability to host multiple Deep Time Walk narratives — empowering multilingual support and new ecological stories for diverse audiences.
  • July 15, 2024
    New online Deep Time Walk Community Network available
    Join 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.

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.

Meet the team

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.

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