In times that call to attention how we value of human life, our diverse ways of knowing and sources of life it becomes imperative to explore how human intervention and interaction are generationally implicated. In this talk I reflect on our emergent awareness of how the inter-related polycrises of global instances of genocide, epistemicide and the destruction of the planet and ecosystems (terracide) highlight gaps in health science ideology and methodology. Reflecting on sociopolitical histories that resulted in past generations creating the conditions for current global crisis. I suggest that accepting past generations limitations and acknowledging contemporary gaps in our knowledge system will catalyse fundamental and essential transformation in research, teaching and scholarship in health and medical science education. I consider how and why we should take responsibility for shifts in ideology and methodology while releasing long-term outcomes to future generations. Consideration of social time, generational consciousness and diffracting and decolonising methodology are ways in which we may alleviate epistemic violence and heal social and intergenerational trauma.
Learning objectives

1. To understand how contemporary global polycrises of genocide, epistemicide and terracide results from the actions of past generations
2. To explore how may avert current and future crises through past generations limitations through expanding current ideologies and methodologies.
3. To reflect on how we can expand awareness, positionality and future orientation as researcher to avert harmful impacts of our current unconscious limitations on future generations.

Deeds without Expectations of the Result
॥ कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भुर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वाकर्मणि॥
One has the right to perform their expected duty,
But not to the right to the fruits of action;
One should not consider oneself as the doer of the action,
Nor should one attach oneself to inaction.
- Bhagavad Gita 2 : 47