Angello Gabriel Ioakimides
Counsellor and Consultant in Palaio Faliro, Greece
Angello Gabriel Ioakimides
Counsellor and Consultant in Palaio Faliro, Greece
Being Born on July 4th, and having moved 21 times by the age of 20, one learns to pack well. Packing belongings, illusions, a whole life, is an opportunity to sort your mind, to re-start, to hope for new adventures and to count your acquired blessings. This conflict of "security" and "freedom", is the theme of my history: From the 80's messy Athens, to the faux-elite city of Panama and the fishing & dives on the island of Hydra in Greece, childhood was over just in time to graduate from University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) in Computational Physics (what?). Computers being my hobby (good place to virtually experiment and hide from an turmulous puberty), and after a year in the army, life started (read “work”).
From tech support, to programming consultant, to department manager, to pre-sales, keeping life never-boring, and providing means to learn/explore as well as survive. A short escape to Prague (CZ) for 2.5 years (in 2008), helped collect bearings. A degree in Sales Management (and tons of self improvement with applied psychology) later, I moved back to Greece with two by-product additions: a family & helping support "most technical problems that rest between a chair and the screen".
As this city hurt me with the attitude of her people: "who cares?", I was looking to influence individuals to believe in human ties. I am currently doing is being Mental Health Counsellor at kymazois.gr and a volunteer at SynYparxi.gr & Womens' European Network, the Hellenic Association for Counselling, where I connect with other people, their feelings as others have helped me. Feelings are tricky super-powers.
What I can share:
Where there is a will there is a way, for most, as long as one is prepared to pay the price. Everything costs. It's a law of entropy.
Different points of view are worth more than money, which proves that I am not as important as I think. Are you?
We HAVE the information needed to have a crude, yet crucial "users' manual" for our mind and body (and especially emotions). Even if not simple, we have rules we can follow to be healthier and more negentropic.
This is not a definitive summary. It is a point of view in whatever life brought me while I craved for the illusion of "control".