For women in transition & organisational emotional fitness
Chantal 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.
Chantal Dawtrey is the co-founder of 5th Place and co-creator of Shape of Emotion, a pioneering model, process, and tool for how individuals structure, store, represent, and regulate their inner feeling states.
Sustainable well-being strategies for individuals, teams, and organizations
With over 15 years of coaching experience and more than two decades in facilitation and human development, Chantal partners with individuals, teams, and organizations to build emotional resilience, enhance self-awareness, and develop sustainable well-being strategies.
Her primary focus as a coach is supporting women, especially those in their 50’s and beyond, to navigate profound life transitions with clarity, steadiness and self-reconnection. Finding answers to questions about identity, purpose, belonging and desire to an emergence, a reclamation and a return to self.
Adult learning principles & digital data-driven programmes
Chantal integrates adult learning principles, human development theory, and experiential methods into her work, fostering balance, curiosity, and self-care while challenging clients to shift beyond limiting beliefs and habitual patterns.
She co-develops digital data-driven emotional fitness programmes for organizations and institutions. These are at scale offerings that provide information, education and practical tools to proactively manage stress, anxiety, burnout, with the aim to build emotional and relational capacity and capability.
Background & qualifications
Chantal is a writer and a speaker. She writes what's on her mind and close to her heart. Her poetry offers a window to her spirit.
She is a credentialed coach, registered coach supervisor with COMENSA, and a past chairperson of its Research and Supervision Portfolio Committees. She is an accredited Senior Coach and Supervisor with Global EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council). She holds an MPhil in Leadership Coaching (cum laude) from Stellenbosch Business School, is a qualified teacher and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner.
Chantal is a facilitator, trainer, and speaker, and the co-developer of the Model of Emotional Fitness™, a framework for building emotional capacity in people and systems, and co-host of the podcast Emotions Matter. Really!
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