About Me

Jane began practicing mindfulness in 2006. 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 integrating it into her coaching of 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. 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 is currently engaging with a year-long training program started by Thomas Hubl, a renown spiritual teacher and trauma expert entitled ‘Global Social Witnessing – holding space for a world in transition’. GSW is the capacity to mindfully attend to global events with embodied awareness. 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 committed to ongoing psychotherapy and embodied self-inquiry to contribute to the conditions for deepening 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.