Who is 5th Place?
Explore who is behind 5th Place, and why we chose the name, 5th Place.
The founders of 5th Place
Chantal Dawtrey
Co-founder, 5th Place
Transition Coach for Women
Emotional Fitness Specialist
Chantal Dawtrey supports women, especially in midlife and beyond, to navigate life transitions. She designs and delivers data informed digital programmes that build organisational emotional fitness. She helps people move beyond habitual patterns into greater awareness, agency, and well being.
Matthew Green
Co-founder, 5th Place
Emotional Fitness Coach & Facilitator
Performance Strategist
Matthew Green coaches high-functioning men and high-performing individuals to achieve a lighter emotional load, optimised nervous system regulation, consistent high-level execution, and the effortless emergence of peak performance without months of deep analysis or repeated storytelling of the past.
5th Place United Kingdom
Matthew Bushell
Therapeutic Coach
Bipolar Recovery - Your bipolar coach
Emotional Fitness Specialist
Matthew Bushell is Your Bipolar Coach. His work is built on the reality of navigating the mental health system and a commitment to helping others do the same. Matthew offers the rare combination of professional skill and a genuine understanding of the condition.
Other 5th Place team members
Cailyn Hancock
Clive Sibindi
Dorcas Mhlanga
Why the name 5th Place?
We often get asked why 5th Place? Why not 1st Place or 2nd Place or even 3rd? There is a story behind the choice of the name. It is short!
First, second, third and fourth place
Ray Oldenburg, author of The Great Good Place defines the first place as home, the second place as work and the third place as the place where community gathers for recreation, such as coffee shops, parks and sports facilities.
The fourth place we have defined as our online digital life, including the Web and social media spaces.
What then is the fifth place?
The "5th Place"
5th Place is the space of connectedness, community, possibility, well-being and equality of all people. 5th Place asks us to build a better world through the realm of feeling. It is anywhere and everywhere that asks us to feel more, heal, learn, grow, engage and it starts with me.