Deeper Mindfulness: Frame by Frame
27 May at 17:30 to 19:30
‘Deeper Mindfulness: exploring feeling tone Frame by Frame‘ is a new eight-week course developed by Mark Williams and colleagues for people who want to explore mindfulness more deeply. The online course runs on Wednesday evenings from 27 May 2026 and includes an optional one-day retreat on 20 June 2026.
Overview
This course allows people to explore an aspect of mindfulness that isn’t covered explicitly in other courses: ‘feeling tone.’ Feeling tone is a sense of the positive or negative that every human experiences and is the tipping point for our mood.
Deeper Mindfulness is informed by recent psychological findings that reveal that every waking moment, our understanding of the world is dominated by imagining how we can take action within it, coloured by what is called ‘feeling tone.’ Feeling tone is the moment-by-moment ‘read-out’ of how much a sensation, thought, or emotion feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neither. Based on this moment-by-moment ‘read out,’ the body allocates its resources as it gears up for real or imagined action. This can prepare us well for action, but it can also put us at risk of becoming exhausted without our realising it.
During the eight weekly sessions, you will learn meditations that help you tune into feeling tone moment by moment, frame by frame. This provides an opportunity to see more clearly both the tipping points for distress and exhaustion, and also how to flourish by freeing yourself to appreciate life again, even in the midst of difficulty.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for those who have already completed an eight-week mindfulness-based programme and want to explore mindfulness more deeply. Please note, this courses is designed for the general public and may not be suitable for everyone. If you are experiencing serious mental health issues, you should talk to your GP about being referred to the appropriate clinical service.
When?
Wednesdays, 5.30pm to 7.30pm, starting 27 May and running until 15 July 2026. (3, 10, 17, 24 June, 1, 8 July)
Where?
Online. The zoom link will be sent closer to the time of the course.
The format of the course
The course is delivered over eight weekly sessions, each lasting two hours. Each session builds on what’s been introduced before, so it’s important to attend all the sessions if possible. (If you know you’re going to miss a session, please let your teacher know).
You’ll be in a group of up to 16 people, led by one of our experienced mindfulness teachers.
Each session begins with a short, guided meditation, then (with the exception of the first session) there’s a review and inquiry into the past week. The second half of the session introduces the theme for the week and includes a meditation. There’ll be space to review what you and others experienced or discovered during the practice. The sessions are followed by suggestions for home-based personal practice of around 20 minutes per day. This includes both recommended guided practices for the week, and also ways to cultivate mindfulness in everyday life.
You’ll have access to guided practices and written materials to support each session.
Facilitators
We have two experienced teachers leading this course. Apart from being experienced in many aspect of teaching mindfulness, Taravajra and Bethan Roberts are supervisors and are key members of our team of teacher trainers, leading courses for others who want to become teachers themselves.
Taravajra
Taravajra has been teaching mindfulness in Sussex since 2005 to community groups, carers, teachers and NHS staff. Taravajra gained a Masters degree in mindfulness-based approaches in 2010 at Bangor University. Since 2011, he has been part of the core training team at Bangor, teaching on the Masters programme and teacher training pathway in the English and Spanish speaking worlds. He holds a British Wheel of Yoga teaching diploma and is a Focusing practitioner. Since 2011 he has been one of the main trainers on the Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s teacher training programme.
Bethan Roberts
Bethan is one of the core trainers at the Mindfulness Network (MN) and Bangor University’s Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice running teacher training retreats and offering supervision since 2015. She has also taught on the Masters programme in Mindfulness-based Approaches at Bangor University. She has been teaching eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses since 2008 and has taught mindfulness in a variety of organisations including the NHS, the Office for National Statistics, the Intellectual Property Office, the National Museum of Wales, the Welsh Parliament, Families First Projects and Marie Curie Hospice. She has also been teaching one-to one mindfulness courses on behalf of the MN and Bangor University since 2010. Bethan is also a Mental Health First Aid Instructor (approved in 2008) and has taught courses on mental health at Cardiff University, as well running training sessions on mental health and wellbeing for a wide range of organisations across England and Wales.
How to book
Please note, we ask all those who book a place on this course to fill in an application form that will be sent to the facilitators.
The eight-week course is £250, with different options listed in the form below.
We also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available offered on a first-come, first-served basis for people who are unemployed or facing financial hardship who would otherwise be unable to attend. You can request a concession ticket by emailing spft.smc@nhs.net
