In March 2017 Steve left a life of 20 years in corporate HR and consulting to start the Inner Child company and community, now iGallos®, focused around bringing his own lived experiences, and the experiences of people around him at work and socially, combined with his HR leadership background, to do what he could to challenge the way we as a society and in the working world manage those with mental ill health. He now works with leaders, HR professionals and teams all around the world in companies of all sizes and sectors.

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Steve is a Sanologist*.

 

He is an experienced therapeutic counsellor, organisational culture consultant, a Coach for executives, leaders, teams, and a Certified Plant-Based Coach for all. He is a Global Social Witnessing Facilitator, Trauma-Sensitive Certified Practitioner, Mental Health trainer and consultant for organisations working globally across multiple countries and cultures. He is a podcast and panel host, and has delivered countless webinar and programmes on a variety of topics. His key areas of focus are trauma and crisis prevention.

 

A former HR executive leader within global corporates. He has lived a broad life having been a remedial massage practitioner, trained as a pilates equipment instructor, worked as an outdoor education instructor (with a Postgraduate Diploma in Outdoor Education), a psychologist, sports scientist, energy medicine practitioner, meditator, and experienced in many other sanological modalities. 

 

As best as possible in the real world, he spends time in nature, meditates, rests, moves, plays, reads incessantly, eats a whole food plant-based diet (WFPB) thanks to John and Ocean Robbins and the Food Revolution Network and to take the boundaries of health further no longer wears, sleeps under or dries himself with synthetic materials thanks to Jeff Garner and his Let Them Be Naked book and documentary. It's a tough job but we have to role model what we teach! 

 

*Sanology: this neo-Latin term ascribed to seeing life through a lens of positive health, in the light, in gratitude, and in messy hopefulness. It is the opposite of pathology, which keeps us in pain, in injury and trauma, it keeps us in the shadow, turned inward and isolated, in illness. Failing to acknowledge that we are all naturally and healthily differently ordered, not pathologically and arbitrarily disordered.

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This is THE best course I have attended in a very long time. Steve was knowledgeable and made the environment safe for everyone to share very very personal experiences. The course went very qickly and was so informative. A MASSIVE Thankyou to Steve who was an absolute GEM. A really open honest and kind man. Thanks again for the course. It was extremely useful THANKS THANKS THANKS

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Steve added so many examples and references (recommending additional reading and watching for those who had particular interests and curiosities in certain areas), the knowledge he brought to the room was just outstanding. He created an incredible atmosphere where people could be vulnerable and feel supported, which meant we all shared so much more and therefore got so much more out of the course. He also engaged in 1:1 conversations with course participants during break times/ at the beginning/ end of the day, which I know I truly appreciated, and I'm sure others did too.

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