More About Steve

More About Steve

Mentoring

I provide mentoring to a variety of individuals and on behalf of organisations: -

  • Innovation Martleham - IM is an established high-tech cluster of ICT companies located at BT's Adastral Park located in Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, UK. I am a mentor for these ICT companies and often get involved in a technical and business development capacity.
  • University of Essex - I am an approved mentor for students in their final year at the university and have worked with a number of students to help them understand what they love to do and to commercialise that. 
  • Young Enterprise - I have looked after a couple of awesome young teams of sixth formers at Colchester Royal Grammar School in a Young Enterprise competition. They are required to who set-up and run a limited company, develop products, fundraise and sell, for the competition, but also to add value to their CV's! You can learn more about them from their website or on Twitter.

Read more about Steve's mentoring and testimonials

Energy Healing

Following a number of strong spiritual experiences I began training and working in healing and spiritual counselling. I also run spiritual awareness courses, a healer support group coaching qualified healers, and I teach Reiki to level III.


Qualifications and experience

  • Current member of AMORC – Rosicrucian teaching
  • Current member of the Traditional Martinist Order
  • Member of the Sociatas Rosicruciana In Anglia, a Christian Rosicrucian society who take their members from Master Masons
  • Studied Gnostic and Rosicrucian Heaing methods 2020-2022
  • Sat in psychic development circle with Gay Harrison for several years
  • Crystal Healing course with Val Folbigg 2017-2018
  • Spiritual Counselling Course 2015
  • Shamanic Healing Diploma 2014 with Ross Heaven
  • Reiki Master Teacher courses from 2008 to 2013 with Sue Tyrrell
  • Crystalline Therapy 2009 with John Spillman
  • Spiritual healing course 2007-2009

Martial Arts

I have been practising (and mainly living) Shotokan Karate since 1981 and teaching since 1992, I reached the grade of 5th Dan, which took me until 2006. I founded two clubs, one in Sidcup, Kent in 1992, and one in Cambridge in 1994 when I moved that way, and this club continues today. When I retired from regular karate in 2010 I was the IASK National Kata Champion three times in a row. I also trained in Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Pak Mei kung fu, and Tomiki Aikido.


I learned to teach powerfully practical self-defence with a number of organisations including the police and some military organisations and ran a number of courses for the public. I especially enjoyed the self-perfection and the closely-related spiritual aspects of the art and also enjoyed passing this love, as well as strong self-discipline, onto my students.

  • Member of the IASK British team from 1995 to 2007 competing against international teams
  • Tutor and assessor of the English Karate Governing Body's coach award scheme and a Tutor and assessor for NVQ II/III 'Karate Coaching’ Level 2

Falconry

Big falconry fan, Harris Hawks are probably my favourite.

Freemasonry & Mysticism

Freemasonry

I received my first initiation as an Entered Apprentice into Freemasonry in Wellington Lodge No. 548 as part of the United Grand Lodge of England in Holborn London, UK during January 2017, and was then raised to Fellow Craft in March 2017, and promoted to Master Mason in 2018.


Offices in Wellington 548

  • IG from 2018-2019
  • JD from 2019-2020
  • SD from 2020-2022

I joined Mistley 2339 in April 2022 and am enjoying Provincal Freemasonry in Essex


Offices in Mistley 2339

  • SD 2023-2024

Holy Royal Arch

I am joining this Masonic order, otherwise known as Chapter, in October 2023


SRIA

I was an aspirant of the William Semkin  College of the Sociatas Rosicruciana in Anglia for 3 years and then joined as a Zelator in  December 2021. I was promoted to Theoricus in June 2023, and am currently the Conductor


AMORC

Lastly, I am a 9th Degree Rosicrucian with the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis - AMORC 


Traditional Martinist Order

I am a 2nd Degree member of this initatic order https://www.martinists.org/

Dance

I can't leave it out, because I love it! Be it Bachata, Salsa, ballroom, or just plain boogying on a Friday night. (I even taught Zumba for five years until I was 51!)


Someone I love said "Dancing doesn't have to be cool" and I live that every day!

Beginnings

That's me on the left, I was young once too. But I always hated football so not sure what happened there!


Since then I have fathered two awesome boys, Jack and Oliver (below), born in 1991 and 1995 respectively, who I love having around. Top lads.
Read about Steve's working life here
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