Posts by Chantal Dawtrey

Who am I to challenge them to take better care of themselves if I don’t or won’t take care of myself? Why coaching supervision is a must-do if you’re a coach.

What is your crossroads? What dilemma, difficult decision or conundrum do you face? Our country sure faces a big one. The Dinokeng Scenarios offered up the three choices: Walk apart; walk behind or walk together. We have ‘walked apart’ several times since the scenarios were drafted in 2009. Leadership has often appeared unaccountable. As a…

Day 1 of the Community Building Workshop was a mixture of the swooping warm energy of engagement, the giddy joy of appreciation, the spiraling confusion of being misunderstood, and the iron clad courage of finding my voice. I almost lost it after several minutes, at different intervals, of making myself heard over the cacophony of…

A citizen is one who is willing to be accountable for and committed to the well-being of the whole”, Peter Block. What does that mean for me? Is the well being of the whole up to me? Really? That is a seriously big responsibility. One that on first glance I think I would prefer to…

In his book Community, The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block reminds us about how we “love our habit of dependency and accept the culture of retribution because it reinforces the case for strong leaders – ‘strong’ being the code word for autocratic, a message our culture is increasingly willing to accede to.” (p40) He goes…

On the day after Christmas the world feels like a quieter place. The frenetic energy of the last few days has calmed. The roads are empty as traffic lights blink to no-one. Some flash only red in rain flooded sulkiness. People emerge into the new day looking sleepy and full. Everything feels full and slow.…

And yellow or orange? Do these colours send electric impulses through the eyes of the observer, usually in a motor vehicle, causing them to press their accelerators down even harder? Do they make individuals rage with fury at the thought of being stopped? Hence the urge to attack and move forward at speed, rather than…