Jane Mahon

I'm Jane Mahon

By profession, I am a rehabilitation consultant and the director of a national rehabilitation company supporting members of the Australian Defence Force living with injury and life disruption.

I teach a form of spiritual resilience that is grounded, trauma-aware, and immediately usable. My approach supports people to steady their nervous system, listen for wisdom, act with integrity, and return to the still point within.

I spent the first part of my working life in rehabilitation counselling — helping people return to work and to themselves after injury, much of it with defence personnel and emergency services workers. I understood pressure clinically. I thought that was enough.

In 2011 my niece died, and the frameworks I had built my career on could not hold what I was carrying. What followed was not a career change but a reorientation: meditation, study, pilgrimage, and a slow return to the contemplative traditions I had walked past for years.

The work changed with me. I moved from the clinic into chaplaincy — hospitals, then ambulance, then police — sitting with people at the edge of what they could carry, in the hour when there is nothing to fix and only presence to offer. I kept training alongside it, in trauma-informed psychotherapy, because good intentions are not a substitute for knowing what trauma does to a body.

In 2023 I entered Benedictine oblate formation with Benet Hill Monastery in Colorado, making oblation in 2026 — a commitment to a fifteen-hundred-year-old rhythm of prayer, work, and steadiness.

What I teach now comes from all of it: the clinical training, the frontline years, and the wisdom of the mystics who worked out how to stay whole under pressure long before anyone called it resilience.

I'm Jane Mahon

Rehabilitation Consultant Author First Responder Chaplain Spiritual Director

I help people cultivate spiritual resilience for high-pressure lives.

My work brings together contemplative spirituality, trauma-aware practice, chaplaincy, and psychology. I teach practical ways to steady the nervous system, listen for wisdom, act with integrity, and return to steadiness.

Where My Practice Comes From

My spiritual formation has been shaped by Benedictine practice, contemplative prayer, spiritual direction, and the teachings of women mystics.

As a Benedictine Oblate, I am drawn to the ancient wisdom of stability, listening, humility, hospitality, and faithful presence.

I am also the Australian Convenor for Spiritual Directors International. There, I support conversations around spiritual direction, contemplative formation, and the future of spiritual companionship in Australia.