Enabling the How

Enabling the How

In a world consumed by the “What” we “Enable your How…” to make the world a better place.

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It’s the oats

#266 · 23 July 2026 · 5 min read

It’s the oats

After weeks of challenge on many fronts it felt as if a threshold had been crossed. A smoother week with resolutions and relief.

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About Enabling the How

Our call to action at 5th Place is to focus on developing emotional fitness and mental well-being in order to create positive change in the world. Join us, Chantal and Matthew, co-owners of 5th Place, in our escapades every week as we stumble and trip, dance and whirl our way through very normal and not so normal weeks in their drive to make the world a better place. This “How” comes in many different forms and in this case it comes in the form of sharing life, loves, and loss. It’s also a whole lot of what living is like in South Africa.

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Working your stuff aka The Man in the Mirror

18 June 2018

In order for any change to be truly transformational there needs to be a process of letting go of the old in order to allow the new to come.

The Shape of your Emotion

18 May 2018

Our first talk about Shape of Emotion. An interactive presentation for coaches, who were given the opportunity to explore the difference between emotions and feelings and experience the shape of their emotion.

Burning emotions

10 May 2018

AfrikaBurn can be an emotional roller coaster at the best of times. If it doesn’t challenge you then, quite frankly, you haven’t really been to AfrikaBurn. The key is to immerse yourself in whatever shows up. And burn baby, burn.

No need for the story

30 March 2018

Whenever we speak about the feeling and emotion work we do, people immediately think that they are going to have to talk about their feelings. This is the last thing we want or ask for.