Flourishing Through Continuity: Mobilising Ancestral Wisdom Across the Temporal Divide

Abstract

This All-Academy panel symposium will facilitate ‘broadening the sight’ of the Academy through focused dialogue about Indigenous ways of seeing and managing cyclical time. Participants will discuss how ancient Indigenous wisdom and values can be incorporated into contemporary organizing in ways that reshape temporal orientations and address tensions between short-term and long-term perspectives. The discussions will be grounded in the panelists’ own theoretical, conceptual, and applied research projects. By addressing the limitations of linear time and our own strategies for overcoming these, we hope to clarify notions of custodianship and intergenerational responsibility from Indigenous perspectives and demonstrate their broader application. We see these as a potential bridge to addressing structural inequalities within organizational decision-making.