The home of Emotional Fitness
We're emotional fitness experts, trainers & coaches
Welcome to 5th Place. We are Chantal Dawtrey and Matthew Green and we are emotional fitness experts, trainers and coaches.
Low levels of emotional fitness costs us in all areas of our life
In our experience, poor emotional fitness means you don’t properly take care of yourself, those you care about or the environment.
Low levels of emotional fitness, in other words an inability to manage our increasing stress levels, chronic anxiety, deepening depression and other mental health issues costs us in all areas of our life.
- It costs us in our relationships and our communities,
- It costs us in our health,
- It costs us in our ability to learn and study,
- It costs us in our ability to earn money,
- It costs businesses because employees are not present, productive or engaged.
We have seen first hand that being emotionally fit leads to improved physical, psychological and relational health and will transform the experience of your life.
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We train people, individuals, groups and organisations on how to become and remain emotionally fit. Our Emotional Fitness training is based on the most recent developments in Neuroscience and utilises a pioneering body / mind process called Shape of Emotion. To date many thousands of individuals from all over the world have attested to the effectiveness of our programmes.
We have a holistic, five fold approach to our interventions.
EDUCATION SUPPORT RESEARCH GROUPS INDIVIDUALS
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Emotional Fitness insights and updates
Explore the latest news and information from people, friends and clients about emotional fitness. We share stories, testimonials, ideas and tips and more from around the world. We invite you to stay connected with our community as, together, we make the world a better place by building emotional fitness. Updates are published mid-week.
Lessons of acceptance and rejection
This past week we had an opportunity to be reminded of the value of focusing on the generative, good, important stuff. And we also were given a small nudge in the other direction.
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It starts with me
If you make your inner world a better place, you will make your outer world a better place too.
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An opportunity to take real responsibility
“It’s always about me” is an opportunity to take real responsibility for my feelings and sit with them in the moment, without blaming, shaming, finding fault on the outside, with another or myself.
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It’s always about me
“It’s always about me”, is about the opportunity to take responsibility for what I am feeling in the moment without blaming, shaming, finding fault on the outside and with the other.
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Shape of Emotion ease workshop, August 2018
A dedicated group of matriculants from Vuleka SSB High School in Randburg, sacrificed a valuable day off to attend the Shape of Emotion ease workshop at their school.
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Essentially I am complete
Beneath the drive for perfection, the self flagellation, the incessant self criticism, is a core that is already and has always been – perfect.
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About 5th Place
Positively impacting wellbeing
At 5th Place we support the physical and emotional wellbeing of people by enabling and educating them on how to build emotional fitness. We can do this one-on-one or on a scale to match the size of the problem with groups of any size.
Shape of Emotion
Building emotional fitness
Shape of Emotion offers a tool to build emotional fitness and address the scale of the mental, emotional and physical health challenges faced by society today.
5th Place Offerings
Emotional fitness offerings for everyone
5th Place offers the opportunity to learn how to become and remain emotionally fit. Being emotionally fit leads to improved physical, psychological and relational health and will transform the experience of your life.