Deeper Mindfulness: Frame by Frame
13 May 2025 at 15:00 to 17:00
‘Deeper Mindfulness: exploring feeling tone Frame by Frame’ is a new eight-week course developed by Mark Williams and colleagues. Running on Tuesday afternoons from 13 May 2025, it is designed for those who have already completed an eight-week mindfulness-based programme and want to explore mindfulness more deeply.
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. 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?
Tuesday afternoons 15.00 to 17.00, starting 13 May and running until 8 July 2025. Please note there is no session on 27 May.
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 Bridgette O’ Neill 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 to community groups, carers, teachers and NHS staff groups in Sussex since 2005. He 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 retreats and offering supervision. He is one of the main trainers on Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s teacher training programme.
Bridgette O’Neill
Bridgette is a mindfulness teacher and supervisor, and a consultant clinical psychologist. She previously held a leadership position within Sussex Partnership and has been involved in the development and governance of mindfulness interventions in the Trust. Bridgette is the convenor for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s Foundation and adapted mindfulness-based teacher training programmes. She also provides supervision and teaches eight-week courses for Sussex Partnership staff and service users.
How to book
The eight-week course is £250. You can book your place below.
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. If you haven’t already, please head here to fill in the form.
