About Us
Call us: 0115 9788886 or 07929 557868
Here's who we are...
We each have many years' experience in facilitating group learning with adults and children and we bring our own specialities. We aim to provide a very professional service with humour, warmth, 'realness' and, because we have a genuine passion for spreading mindfulness, reasonable rates.
"To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds." "Mindfulness trainings are medicines for our time." Thich Nhat Hanh
Meet Our Team
For us, mindfulness is a way of life; we try to 'walk our talk' and have each found huge benefits to our lives through practicing it. We adhere to the UK mindfulness teachers'
Good Practice Guidelines
and have our own regular practice, supervision, retreats
and CPD training.
About Jayne:
Our principle trainer, Jayne Pigford, had a decade in child protection social work following her social studies degree before training (an MSc) and setting up a practice in Gestalt psychotherapy in 2002 (see www.creativeleaps.co.uk).
Her therapy business (plus previous employment as a teacher in further education, a community worker and a school counsellor) has involved delivering local and international trainings for adults and young people, facilitating team building and conflict management in businesses and running a 'body awareness' dance class.
Jayne's interest in mindfulness began three decades ago when she started reading about Buddhism. Her practice and understanding really took off whilst travelling in Asia in 1995/6 and then whilst being in hospital for many months - and very much in the 'now' with a great appreciation of normal life - in 1998/9.
She's been training in Mindfulness since 2012, obtained her 'TD1' teaching qualification in 2014 with Drs Karen Neil and Patrizia Collard then completed a second weeks' teacher training with Surryacita (pen-name 'the Happy Buddha') at CIC Mindfulness in 2018. She recently completed her 'Mindfulness in Schools' training with Nott'm University's Dr Edward Sellard.
Jayne has been a guest speaker at Nottingham Mindfulness Group's weekly gatherings at Sobar Nottingham and led meditations & read poetry at the Mass Mindfulness Events in Nottingham in 2018 and '19. When she feels inspired or disturbed by events in the world she writes poems and has had several published in books and journals - along with articles in journals and magazines.
About Sarah:
Our second trainer, Sarah White, is a Specialist Chartered physiotherapist who graduated from Nottingham University in 1998. Her 17 years' experience includes fifteen years of specialisation in work with pain, including group-based treatments for chronic pain, stress and fatigue. Sarah has studied Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath under Dr Kevin Vowels who leads research in using acceptance and mindfulness approaches to pain management.
Sarah's training as a teacher in mindfulness has developed to level two with Helen Stephenson, Dr Karen Neil (at Mindful Medicine) and Dr Patrizia Collard (at Enter Mindfulness). Her current work is with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and with Citycare NHS Trust, providing mindfulness groups for those with long-term neurological conditions.
Like Jayne, Sarah is passionate about teaching Mindfulness and making it accessible to people of all ages. Sarah and Jayne both receive regular supervision from Dr Karen Neil of Mindfulmedicine, Nottingham.
Sarah guiding a meditation at a Mindfulness Evening at our home venue (note the piano for occasional singalongs!)
Jackie Wilson, an occasional guest co-trainer, 'getting into the groove' with the children at the 'Think Notts' mass meditation event, 2017.
