Metaphors of Movement · Level 6.0
The Time Portal
A new way to listen to time
Time is not only something your clients talk about. It is something they move through, remain inside, look back upon, run out of, hold onto and organise their lives around. The Time Portal is Andrew T. Austin’s advanced exploration of the language, perception and embodied metaphors of time.
This training is pre-recorded and delivered at thetimeportal.mom
- 68in-depth lessons
- 2 yearsmembership access
- Livewebinars and study group
- Level 6advanced MoM training
Why this course exists
People reveal their relationship with time in almost every conversation
The past may intrude, the future may loom, opportunities may pass, moments may be held and identities may become fixed. The words can sound ordinary while the organisation beneath them is anything but. This programme develops your ability to notice how time is structured in language, space, attention and experience, then to work with greater precision.
- 01
Hear temporal structure
Become more attentive to direction, distance, rate, movement, containment and orientation in the way a person describes experience.
- 02
Think beyond the timeline
Examine linear, cyclical, concurrent and competing arrangements of time without reducing the work to a single model.
- 03
Connect language and perception
Explore how metaphor, hemispheric processing, attention, memory, risk and bodily experience contribute to the felt reality of time.
The learning journey
From the architecture of time to its expression in everyday life
The curriculum moves across conceptual teaching, perceptual phenomena, clinical observation, cultural structures, dream examples and applied integration.
Temporal organisation
Linear and cyclical experience, In-Time and Through-Time, contextual-concurrent timelines, temporal displacement, containment and permanence.
Metaphor and identity
Direction, distance, movement, boundaries, atmospheres, burdens, obstructions, elevations and the acquisition of identity.
Brain, attention and perception
Hemispheric time directions, chronostasis, tachysensia, tachypsychia, circadian cycles, memory and changing perceptions of risk.
Past, present and future
Zimbardo’s time perspectives, locus of control, past encroachment, future orientation, holding the moment and retrospective causation.
Cultural time
The development of the calendar, the days of the week, the months of the year and the metaphorical associations carried within them.
Application and integration
Dream examples, practical synthesis, recorded webinars and question-and-answer sessions that bring the material together.
Some of the themes covered in this unique and original training…
- The 25800-year-long story arc: planetary precession, storytelling and prophecy
- Timelines: proprioceptive and spatial organisation of time
- The passage of time, time dilation and constriction
- Data distribution and information density in metaphor according to individual time predication
- Cognitive dissonance and the failure of fortune-telling and future divination
- Active/passive/proactive/reactive time strategies
- Time distortion strategies and the issues of motivation
- Neurobiological basis for time awareness
- Metaphysics of time travelling as applied to mental health and well being
- Chronos/Saturn, sacrifice and the rules governing time
What membership includes
A course designed for sustained professional development
The Time Portal is not a short collection of videos to rush through. Two-year access gives you time to revisit the material, observe it in practice and participate in the wider learning community.
- Access to 68 detailed lessons, presentations and visual teaching materials
- Live webinars and Study Group sessions
- Recorded question-and-answer material
- Discussion beneath individual lessons
- Private member community access
- Two full years to study and revisit the programme
Time Traveller membership
£250
Two years of course access
Prefer to spread the cost? Choose 12 monthly instalments of £21.67 at checkout.
Prerequisite: Completion of Metaphors of Movement Levels 1 and 2 is required before joining Level 6.0.
Practitioner feedback
What participants say
“I can’t recommend this course enough, it’s absolutely game-changing!”
A.P., London
“The amount of insight and transformation I have already noticed in my work… this course is a must.”
R.M., Beirut
“A different approach to understanding time… A ‘Timeless’ Priceless course!”
S.C., Beirut
Your guide
Created and taught by Andrew T. Austin
The Time Portal is the sixth level of Metaphors of Movement training. Andrew brings together clinical observation, metaphorical language, perceptual psychology, neuroscience and the often-overlooked ways in which people locate themselves in relation to time.
The result is a characteristically wide-ranging programme for practitioners who want to sharpen their observation, extend their conceptual range and encounter familiar client language with fresh precision.