Jane began practising mindfulness in 2006 as a result of attending a transformational 3-day personal development course. In 2007 she discovered the relational mindfulness practice of Insight Dialogue and her practice expanded to include both the personal and interpersonal. She completed a MSc in mindfulness-based approaches at Bangor University in 2014 with distinction and was awarded a prize for the top-performing student of her year. In August 2015, Jane experienced a spontaneous Kundalini awakening which plunged her into great difficulty for many years. The fierce grace of these evolutionary experiences supported the cultivation of an ever-deepening compassionate embodied relationship to herself and continues to offer the blessing that the miracle of life, in all its joy and pain is the deepest practice.
Jane taught MBSR, Interpersonal Mindfulness (IM) and Mindful Self-compassion (MSC) for many years, in corporate settings and for the general public, where she worked alongside Michael Chaskalson as an associate. Her mindfulness-based work is now primarily focused on coaching leaders and teams in corporate settings and individuals in their personal capacity. She supervises mindfulness-based coaches and more experienced mindfulness teachers. She is accredited to use an adult development profiling instrument which offers her coaching and supervision clients transformational insights and supports the evolution of their consciousness such that they are increasingly able to deal with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. This instrument beautifully mirrors the evolutionary trajectory of a maturing mindfulness practice. Jane is accredited as a master executive coach with APECS and is a columnist for Coaching at Work, a professional magazine for coaches and HR professionals globally. Alongside her coaching supervisor Fiona Adamson, Jane is the co-author of a book published by Routledge entitled “Mindfulness-based relational supervision: mutual learning and transformation” (2021).
Jane resonates with the natural law of reciprocity – giving back to life. She has just started a training with Thomas Hubl, a renown spiritual teacher and mystic entitled ‘Global Social Witnessing’. This is the human capacity to mindfully attend to global events with an embodied awareness, creating an inner world space that mirrors and brings compassion to these events. It engenders a shift from being a mere bystander to an active witness, responding from our bodies, hearts, and minds. Most importantly, it supports a deepening of practice in gently turning towards our very human pain on both a personal and collective level and directly feeling it deep in the body. This naturally expands our window of tolerance and resilience and opens our hearts.
Jane remains completely committed to ongoing psychotherapy and embodied self-inquiry to contribute to the conditions for deepening into self-awareness, self-understanding, reflexivity and relational maturity through integrating fragmented wounded shadow parts of her past. She recognises how this enables her to increasingly hold events unfolding in herself, others and the world with compassion and love.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Music (1985), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Teaching Mindfulness-based Approaches (2007 – 2014) Bangor University
- Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme (2013) University of Massachusetts Medical School and The Metta Foundation
- Mindfulness-based Supervision (2015) Bangor University
- Mindfulness-based Interventions Teacher Rating Scale training (2016) Bangor University
- Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training, a 6-day program led by Christopher Germer (2017). Centre for Mindfulness, Amsterdam
- Certified Leadership Development Profile coach – adult development (2021). Harthill Consulting
- Accredited as Master Executive Coach with APECS (2025) – Association of Professional executive coaches and supervisors.
Specialisms
- Mindfulness in corporate settings – for leaders and teams
- Supervision for mindfulness-based coaches
- Supervising supervisors
- Relational mindfulness/inquiry
- Deepening embodiment through strengthening the capacity to sense and feel experience in the body. This supports greater integration between the left and right hemispheres of our brain.
- Mindfulness & wider systemic issues
Supervision Experience
Jane has been supervising mindfulness teachers since 2015, when she first joined the Mindfulness Network. As a result of illness she needed to withdraw from the team in 2018 and is truly delighted to be back!
Supervision Rate
1-hour individual session – £70 or block of 3 sessions £190 (£63 per session)
½ hour individual session – £35
If cost is prohibitive, please do get in touch to discuss.
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