Shanita Doerga

About Shanita Doerga

From a young age, Shanita has been fascinated by human behavior: what moves people and the role emotional safety plays in it. This interest forms the common thread in her work and in her life. Her professional development is inextricably linked to her personal life journey, in which she has experienced how childhood trauma affects identity, behavior, and relationships.

As a six-year-old girl, she was confronted with femicide within her family. Although she wanted to talk about it, she kept it to herself for thirty years, out of fear of judgment and being a burden to others. For decades, she lived with a silently carried story and the belief that something was wrong with her. Her quest for recognition and meaning drove her to extremes in performance and giving.

For seventeen years of her life, she traveled extensively and dedicated herself to volunteer work both domestically and internationally, which deeply shaped her perspective on meaning, culture, and different ways of living.

Her career also has a broad background. After studying Leisure Management (cum laude), she worked as a recording and production manager in the television industry and as a marketing and event coordinator at Harley-Davidson Benelux.

Driven by her fascination with human behavior, she pursued numerous training programs in coaching, leadership, and personal development. She then took the step into the social domain, with the desire to guide people in their personal development, awareness, and growth.

In this phase, she created contexts where safety, reflection, and development were central. She guided individuals and groups in strengthening self-awareness, recognizing talents and values, and reclaiming control over their lives, with a focus on mental and emotional resilience and sustainable change from within.

Additionally, she held coordinating and leadership roles within various social organizations, focusing on organizational development, team coordination, and quality improvement.

Things unspoken, remain broken.

After a profound personal transformation in 2022, a fundamental shift occurred in her life. Her greatest vulnerability became the foundation of her work and her desire to be meaningful with her experiential knowledge.

This experience now forms the basis of her work as a speaker, trainer/coach, and expert by experience. She combines professional knowledge and lived experience in her work with individuals, teams, and organizations, focusing on trauma, behavior, and personal leadership.

In her role as a speaker and trainer, she creates space for reflection, recognition, and genuine encounters. She dares to confront what often remains unspoken while simultaneously offering hope and perspective. Her vulnerability opens conversations that touch on underlying patterns in thinking, feeling, and acting, both for individuals and within teams and systems.

She works with organizations on awareness, strengthening the child perspective, and increasing trauma sensitivity within professional practice. In doing so, she connects experiential knowledge with practical applicability, ensuring that insights are not only understood but also felt and actionable in practice. Safety, recognition, and concrete impact are central to this, making change truly possible.

Her driving force is to contribute to hope, perspective, and inspiration, inviting people to adopt a different way of looking at themselves, their relationships, and their choices.

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