Jeannette Eaton

Mindfulness | Writing | Mentoring

Please email info@jeannetteeaton.com to learn more or sign up for groups.

Meeting the current moment with creativity

Hi, I'm Jeannette. I'm a certified mindfulness and creative writing teacher and a mom practicing in the center of it all.

I stumbled into practicing mindfulness meditation in 2003 when a generous friend offered me a mindfulness book to help me through a difficult period. It took nearly a decade to build a consistent practice, but that very first book kept me pointing to and returning to practice.

During the last ten years, I have deepened my daily practice, sat silent meditation retreats, and continued to delight in learning more. I am a certified mindfulness teacher, a graduate of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and the Cloud Sangha Mindfulness Mentor Training program. I participate in ongoing weekly and monthly mindfulness and mentor groups led by others because I find the support of teachers and other participants to be essential to my practice and learning.

One of the most significant early gifts of my practice was the understanding that I can learn to be with my experience just as it is. Not with what I want things to look like, but with things as they are. I realized I could be with hard moments, with my flaws and mistakes, and the things I wish I had done well or differently. I could hold these things and know them. I could also choose how to react to them.

I learned that I could offer myself compassion, and this practice has deepened my capacity to offer compassion to others.

I lead groups because I love mindfulness practice and have seen its impact firsthand, and I want to invite others to try it out. Growing up, I had not seen myself as someone who could meditate. It didn't seem to be accessible to me, and I want to create space for others who might feel the same. I am committed to social justice and bring that lens to my practice and am deeply committed to continuing to learn. I hope people can show up as they are, and I hope to honor the different backgrounds and lived experiences we bring to our practice. People of every culture, wisdom tradition, gender identity, race, age, sexual orientation, and physical ability are welcome.

Offerings

Mindfulness meditation can offer the body and mind a chance to settle. Through our practice together, we begin to create the conditions for ease, steadiness, and compassion to grow in our lives. Whether you are a long-time practitioner or want to try meditation for the first time, I would love to have you join me in practice.

I offer short info calls to learn more about the following groups and to answer any questions. Please email me at info@jeannetteeaton.com if you would like to find out more.

Mindfulness Groups

What is this moment asking of us?

So often, as we move through our lives, we bump against feeling like we are the only ones who are a certain way, struggle with this thing, or long for this other thing. When we practice mindfulness with others and hear their questions and observations, we connect more deeply with what it means to be human.

Groups can help us deepen our individual practice. There is so much skill and wisdom inside of groups. So much we can learn in relationship to each other.

Are you looking to build skills to meet all moments in life with more ease and balance? Would you like to make time each week to settle into stillness and quiet? I lead gently guided meditations to bring awareness to what is happening in the body and mind to create some space to pause and meet ourselves with more kindness.

Join me online:

Weekly Online Mindfulness Group

Tuesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Please email info@jeannetteeaton.com to register for the Zoom link

Join me for gently guided meditations to bring awareness to what is happening in the body and mind and to create space to pause and meet ourselves with more kindness.

Our weekly sessions include time for practice, guidance, connecting and exploring in community through sharing and Q &A, and ideas on how to bring our practice into daily life. Open to new and experienced meditators, you are welcome to join us anytime.

Mindfulness Book & Practice Group

A Six-week Group

Thursdays, January 11 - February 15, 2024

10:30 - 12:00 p.m.

Please email info@jeannetteeaton.com to register for the Zoom link

Based on Oren Jay Sofer’s book Your Heart Was Made For This, this group will include meditation time and weekly explorations and conversations from Oren’s book. A copy of this book for our group is helpful but unnecessary. Jeannette will guide from the book and offer handouts for anyone who doesn’t have the book as needed.

Or in person:

Starting the New Year With Intention

A 5-Week In-Person Mindfulness Meditation Series

January 3 - 31, 2024

Wednesdays, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Shelburne Falls Yoga,

The Mill at Shelburne Falls, 49 Conway St. Suite 201

Whether you are new to meditation and looking to establish a practice or want to deepen or return to your meditation practice, this five-week series will help us connect with our intentions and explore areas we may wish to cultivate in our lives–curiosity, energy, joy, concentration, and balance.

I invite you to join this five-week series to explore the practice of meditation in a warm, supportive environment. Drawing from readings and teachings to help us find ways to bring more presence into our daily lives, each session will include gently guided meditation, silent meditation time, and time to share and ask questions.

Mindful Writing Groups

Opening into creativity

Both writing and meditation increase our capacity to notice things we might otherwise speed by. Writing and mindfulness can complement each other, bringing out different aspects of practice.

Do you want to make time for stillness and creativity? Do you wish you had more time to slow down and hear your own voice? I support people to create space for deep listening so we can begin to hold ourselves and our stories with kindness and settle more fully into our lives.

You don't need to consider yourself a writer or a meditator to attend! Mindful writing groups offer short guided meditations followed by time to write. Creative prompts are provided. Bring a pen and a journal and your curiosity.

Upcoming Groups:

Monday, April 1, 2024

10:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST

Online

Additional creative writing workshops offered at www.papertrailwriters.com.

Mentoring

Group and Individual Sessions

Mentor groups differ from mindfulness practice groups, giving more time to discussions focusing on challenges and insights from practice. So, while we will do a short practice to settle into our time together, the group is not a practice group. It is a group aimed at supporting an ongoing practice.

Meet with me in small groups or one-on-one for individual mentoring to support your meditation practice.

These sessions support deepening and committing to mindfulness meditation. You help shape the focus and direction by bringing what is most important to your practice to our time together. I share resources, prompts, and guide reflections to use between sessions.

I offer free 20-minute consultations for individual and group mentoring. Please reach out to me at info@jeannetteeaton.com to schedule a time to chat.

Three-month mentor group:

Next group to begin in January 2024

Please reach out if you are interested.

Individual Mentoring Sessions:

Meet with me one-on-one for individual mentoring to support your meditation practice.