Chantale Lussier-Ley, PhD(c)

A registered member of CSPA and ISSP, Chantale has nearly ten years experience as a Mental Performance Consultant with athletes and artists. Feeling equally at ease working with children, adolescents, and adults, her clients have ranged from grassroots levels all the way through to elite performers. Notably, she has worked extensively with dancers, consulting for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Schools Professional Division (2002-2004), and the Professional Contemporary Dance program at The School of Dance (2005-present).

Since 2009, she is also a National Committee member of Physical Health Education Canada's Dance Professional Advisory Committee. In addition, Chantale has consulted with provincial and national competitive athletes in Manitoba and Ontario including the 2012 IIHF Gold World Champion U18 Women's Canadian National Hockey Team, swimmers, figure skaters, gymnasts, martial artists, paddlers (K1 & C1 slalom), baseball and tennis players.

Most recently, Chantale worked as a researcher for the Department of National Defenses Operational Effectiveness and Leadership Section, Director Military Personnel Operational Research and Analysis 4 (DMPORA 4) and is now a Part-Time Professor in Mental Performance for the Arts at The University of Ottawa's Faculty of Arts' department of Music.

Herself a graduate of the Royal Winnipeg Ballets Professional Division Teachers Course, Chantale is a professional member of the Cecchetti Society of Canada with Associate Diploma teaching certification and Advance Cecchetti (ballet). Following a 12 year career in the performing arts as a dancer (stage, tv, and film), choreographer, teacher, and artistic director, her interest in the human experience through movement brought her to the University of Winnipeg where she completed a B.A. (honors) in Psychology with a minor in Kinesiology, and to the University of Ottawa for a M.A. (human kinetics) in Mental Performance in Sports. A doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, Chantale was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Doctoral Fellowship Research Award (2006-2009) for her research at the 2008 Canada Dance Festival on the role of feelings, emotions, and the body in creative experiences in dance, movement, and art education.

For more information, or to contact Chantale directly, please visit www.elysianinsight.ca