Hello Earthling,

What if I told you, that more than half of you is not you. 

That you are trillions of other living beings,

all made from recycled stardust, amoeba, mushrooms and apes.  

That you are a habitat. 

That you are nature.

That nature is you.

Welcome to Earth Time World. 

As beings of nature,

we have evolved through deep time,

as part of and made of many millions and trillions

of other living systems,

of our wondrous planet Earth. 

Earth Time World brings the wonder of deep time to life

through play and learning in nature.

Earth Time World enriches the sense we have of our ourselves

among the many millions of trillions

of other extraordinary living creatures and systems,

in the places we live - in enchanting and wondrous ways.

Earth Time World deepens belonging

and helps us make sense of our changing world.

Deep Time Labs

Imagine being able to easily make sense of Earth’s 4.5 billion year journey?

Deep Time Labs enrich learner’s perspectives of their place in the world, and the wondrous adventure of being human, through connecting with Earth’s evolutionary time.

Deep Time Labs are suitable for Years 3-7 and available as an excursion or incursion.

A Teachers Kit with optional pre and post lab lessons and curriculum alignment is provided.

BOOK or ENQUIRE about a Deep Time Lab.

Regenerative Futures Labs

2 hour interactive workshops for learners in Years 7 - 12 exploring world views, natures design principles, place potential.

1. Worldviews and culture 

We explore some of the ways we humans make sense of the world; deep time perspectives, the genius of nature's design principles, acknowledging First Nations wisdom , complex systems and culture.

2.  Regenerative frameworks 

We explore models and approaches to sense and understand place to shape the perspectives, purpose, principles and potential that impact and inform everything we do.

3.  Techniques to navigate ambiguity 

Building on existing curriculum, we explore practical evidence based methods to cultivate self-awareness, self-compassion, realistic optimism and resilience.

BOOK or ENQUIRE about a Regenerative Futures Lab.

Australian Curriculum Alignment (Version 9)

The Deep Time Labs and Regenerative Futures Labs align with the Australian Curriculum (version 9) Sustainability Cross Curriculum Priority, across all of the four organising ideas; systems, worldviews, design and futures. 

ASK US for more information about the curriculum alignment.

ASK US about installing a Deep Time Line in your school yard.

Our installation partner is Exhibition Studios.

Meet the Team

  • Trish Hansen

    FOUNDER + PRESENTER

    Trish founded Earth Time World to bring the wonder of deep time to everyday life - including classrooms (indoors and outdoors). Trish presents the labs with a range of fabulous facilitators.

  • Daisy Keating

    EDUCATION CONSULTANT

    Daisy has been a practicing teacher for eight years. Her special interests are literacy, creativity, supporting students to develop key skills and inviting students to engage in play.

  • Chris Edser

    ILLUSTRATOR

    Chris Edser illustrates, animates, creates museum installations and carves things out of wood. Also teaches illustration and animation at University.

Dear Adult

We find ourselves in uncertain times, facing some of the greatest challenges in human history. 

Wherever we live in the world, we are in relationship with all other beings and place; inhaling and exhaling the breath of the trees, plants and other living creatures; plants, fungi, bugs and microbes. We are in relationship with the weather and seasons, the landscapes, waterways and skies.  

But over time, over hundreds, even thousands of years many of our ways of living, learning, knowing and being have become disconnected from our natural world.

These ways are damaging to ourselves, our relationships with each other, most other living beings and the planet; destroying biodiversity, changing the weather, polluting the oceans and even the air we breath. 

It’s become so clear in recent years that it’s overwhelming, especially our children and young people.

We intuitively know that enriching our connection with our natural world in the places we live deepens our sense of belonging and meaning and connects us to our community.

So, we’ve created fun and enchanting ways to enrich children and young people’s relationship with the many living beings in their own local places, as part of nature as we go about changing the ways to better inhabit this wondrous planet. 

We’ve called it Earth Time World. 

We are thrilled that you’re here.

Contact us.

Ngadlu tampinthi yalaka, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparinthi. Ngadlu tampinthi pannaku tuwila yartangka. 

We acknowledge this land we meet on is the traditional land of Kaurna people. We respect their traditional relationship with this Country.

We express respect to Elders past and present and acknowledge their customs, traditions and resilience as one of humanity’s most enduring cultures; living sustainably and peacefully in this place for many tens of thousands of years.

Earth Time World is an initiative of Urban Mind Studio.