mindfulness@fallingawakenow.com
Group Mindfulness Courses
Delivered by licenced mindfulness teachers across the East Midlands
Trauma-informed for safe practice
We integrate our expert teaching experience with scientific research.
Our bespoke course content can be tailored to meet the needs of healthcare providers, wellness organisations, corporate teams, educational settings and groups of private individuals.
We can come to you or we can provide a suitable venue.
Our Aims & Values
We aim to foster awareness, clarity and self-knowledge, helping people move out of 'automatic pilot' and to make conscious choices in their lives.
Varied
We teach a range of practices, including formal meditation exercises, mindfulness for everyday life and mindfulness of movement, as well as exploring the origins and benefits of mindfulness. Should participants wish to share anything within the group, open discussion and reflection on individual experiences is always welcomed.
Flexible
As well as being licenced mindfulness teachers, Jane and Lorraine are experienced psychotherapists accredited by The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy. We have the experience and skills to weave elements of mental health awareness, wellbeing strategies and resilience teaching with our core mindfulness course content.
Safe
Mindfulness has a body of evidence showing it to be generally very safe, though anyone who has suffered serious trauma or mental illness should be carefully assessed before joining a course. Our trauma-informed assessment and teaching approach prioritises safety, offering tailored individual support whilst respecting personal authority. We always encourage participants to ask questions and let us know if they are struggling.
Inclusive
We provide a warm, welcoming, inclusive environment. During intake and at every stage as the course progresses, we seek to understand individual objectives, needs and any limitations. We offer support in adapting practices where appropriate if anyone has physical or emotional limitations, and encourage all participants to continue developing their own practice at home.
Nourishing
Sessions are delivered with compassion and care. We provide comfortable and nourishing teaching spaces with access to the outdoors wherever possible. We aim to foster trust and rapport within the group so that everyone feels like they belong and can just be themselves, however they are. We take our professional responsibilities seriously but also love getting to know our participants and having some fun!
"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up."
Marcus Aurelius
Our Teachers
We are highly experienced psychotherapists (Registered Members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - MBACP) with a combined total of 30 years of clinical practice and a shared philosophy of what it means to be human and to struggle. During our work with a diverse range of people, we have integrated mindfulness into each of our personal lives and our work clinical practice. This has brought us a wealth of understanding around how we can find inner wisdom and relief from stressful, reactive, ingrained ways of surviving in this sometimes unpredictable and challending world.
Grounded in our solid trust in each other,, we believe we are uniquely positioned to provide a nourishing environment where our participants can safely explore mindfulness and what it means for them.
Jane Devey Smith MSc.
Lorraine Hargraves MSc.
"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.
This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means knowing what you are doing."
Jon Kabat-Zinn, 'Wherever You Go, There You Are'
“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about
the joy of just Being.”
Eckhart Tolle, 'A New Earth:
Awakening To Your Life's Purpose'