Steve Cullen leverages a decade of men’s work experience to help clients cultivate emotional honesty and accountability. He guides individuals through the integration process by focusing on long-term growth and personal integrity.
About
Steve Cullen brings more than a decade of experience in men’s work through The Mankind Project, where he has supported men in developing emotional honesty, accountability, courage, and deeper integrity in their lives.
Alongside this work, Steve has walked a devoted path with plant medicines, approaching them not as a quick transformation, but as a lifelong discipline of humility, listening, and integration. His work is grounded in lived experience, practical wisdom, and a deep respect for the healing process.
Steve has completed the Sacred Integration Facilitator Training and now serves as a co-facilitator at an ayahuasca retreat, where he supports English-speaking participants before, during, and after their ceremonies. He helps people feel safe, oriented, and understood as they move through the intensity, beauty, and challenge of medicine work.
His role extends beyond the ceremony space. Steve also offers one-to-one integration support for those navigating the deeper questions that often arise after working with medicine: How do I live what I saw? How do I change without forcing myself? How do I build a life that reflects the truth I touched?
Steve’s approach carries the steady presence of a spiritual father. He does not position himself above the people he supports. He stands beside them, helping them recognize the tools they already carry, while offering new tools for emotional regulation, self-responsibility, communication, discipline, and inner trust.
His work is especially valuable for those who need grounded guidance after profound experiences. He helps people translate insight into action, vision into structure, and healing into daily life.
At the heart of Steve’s work is a simple commitment: to help people become capable of building the life they came here to live, with honesty, strength, tenderness, and responsibility.
Specialties
How Steve works
Steve meets you where you are and walks alongside your integration with care and presence.
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About this kind of work
Working with an integration coach
An integration coach walks with you in the weeks and months after ceremony. Their job is not to interpret your visions, but to help you turn what the medicine showed you into how you actually live — small choices, honest conversations, a practice that survives the ordinary week.
Most coaching happens on video calls, one to four times a month, with practical support in between. Expect the work to be less about revelation and more about consistency: what you eat, how you rest, who you tell the truth to, and how you protect the field that ceremony opened.
Everyone listed on this site has been reviewed by the Alliance and is in ongoing relationship with the community. If you are unsure whether Steve Cullen is the right fit, most first conversations are free — use them to feel the fit, ask what a real engagement looks like, and trust your own sense of the room.
Working with Steve
Steve is part of the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance — a small, deliberately curated community of coaches, facilitators, therapists, bodyworkers, and teachers we know personally and would send our own family to. Being listed here is not paid, not automated, and not permanent. Each practitioner is in ongoing relationship with the Alliance and holds a standard of practice we can stand behind: real training, real supervision, transparent boundaries, aftercare that actually exists, and a track record measured in years rather than testimonials.
Most sessions with Steve start with a free introductory call — a chance to feel the fit before any commitment is made. Come to that call with the question you actually have, not the polished version. Notice how Steve listens. Notice whether they ask about your body, your sleep, and your relationships, or whether they jump straight to interpretation. That first conversation is information, and it is yours.
What integration support looks like in practice
Integration is not the analysis of visions. It is the slow, unglamorous work of turning what the medicine showed you into how you actually live — your Tuesday, your relationships, your work, your rest, your body. A good integration coach does not tell you what your ceremony meant. They help you notice what has changed since you got home, hold you to the small choices, and name the drift before it becomes a story.
The first three months after ceremony are the sensitive window. What happens in that window shapes the long-term outcome more than the ceremony itself. If you are inside that window, weekly or fortnightly sessions are usually more useful than monthly ones — not because more is better, but because the pattern of returning is what keeps integration alive.
How to prepare for a first session
You do not need to arrive with a plan. It helps to arrive with honesty: where you are on the path, what you have already done, what you are quietly worried about, and what you are hoping might be different in six months. If you have a specific ceremony or experience you want to work with, note the date and the container — that is usually enough. Steve will hold the rest.
Bring a pen and a page. Notice the difference between what you say out loud and what you were preparing to say. Most useful integration work happens in the gap between those two, and a good practitioner will keep gently pointing at that gap until you learn to see it yourself.
A note on cost and access
Ayahuasca integration is skilled work and it is not free. If cost is a barrier, say so. Many AIA practitioners, Steve included, hold a small number of sliding-scale spots for people who genuinely cannot access the full fee. The Alliance also runs ongoing integration circles that are free or low-cost for anyone who applies.
Whatever you choose, do not integrate alone. The people who metabolise ceremony well almost always have at least one steady relationship with someone who knows the terrain — a coach, a therapist, a circle, a mentor. Solo integration is possible; it is also slower, more confusing, and often more expensive in the end.
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