– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is resilient.
Individuals of any generation, profession, or background trust that they have what it takes within them to face any challenging moment or darkening hour.
Each of us is enabled to bring a healthy dose of compassion, curiosity, calm, and love to adversities around us.
This is the promise of Self-discovery and Self-leadership: that we each host inner wisdom that can guide us in the toughest periods of our lives.
Driven by this vision, the Foundation is leading efforts and programs to promote access to inner wisdom by fostering Self-discovery and development as a path to emotional healing and wellbeing.
The Foundation promotes the lens, language, clinical protocol, and paradigm of internal parts and Self leadership, which are key elements of the evidence-based IFS model, as a vehicle for personal growth, individual and relational healing, and greater harmony in our lives. We are working in many settings to foster peace of mind for a more peaceful world.
Our current priorities are to support deep healing for returning war veterans, building conflict resolution know-how and inner resilience in schools for teachers and students, and enhancing emotional awareness and fitness through Take5, our innovative global advocacy campaign for kids, parents and sports coaches.
There is experiential evidence that IFS brings healing to those suffering from PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
We now need to mount empirical data to expand evidence and broaden its impact--by encouraging and funding independent research studies.
Looking at the human psyche through the IFS lens helps us become less judgmental and more compassionate.
This is where the journey toward inner serenity and emotional wellbeing begins.
With abundant disharmony within us and around us, there is great urgency to act...and spread the model across the globe.
Our own inner congruence, which we may gain through IFS, can lead to greater harmony for our group.
Through integrative systems-thinking, IFS gives us greater awareness of our inner system and access to qualities of Self leadership.
Let us take the IFS model to our households, neighborhoods, and places of work.
IFS, founded in the early 1980’s by Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, serves as both a psychotherapy modality & a mental paradigm
In clinical settings, practitioners and patients have seen positive outcomes using IFS to treat trauma, depression, and anxiety. This is affirmed by a recent published study showing effects of IFS in reducing depressive symptoms. IFS effectively lends itself to applications far beyond psychotherapy, including management of one’s physical health, legal mediation, school counseling, business coaching, and even peacemaking. Read more about IFS.
Following a very active start-up phase, during which two members of the Board of Directors have effectively managed its executive functions, the Foundation for Self Leadership is now deliberately embarking on a global search for its next executive director.
The Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Harley Goldberg, DO, as the new Chair of its Board. Harley has served on the Board since the Foundation was activated in August 2013, and will serve in this new capacity for a three-year term. Harley is director of medical education and a physician executive with The Permanente Group, Northern California Kaiser Permanente. (Click here to read Harley’s bio.) Harley was appointed by a unanimous approval of his colleague members of the Board and follows Frank Anderson, MD, who served as the first Chair of the Board.
“What an honor it is to be allowed to meet and work with such high-value friends, on the Board and in the community, while also doing good for the world.” Harley remarked in reaction to his appointment. ”To be able to bring IFS into my life, the medical examination room, and organizational development (and to be thinking about IFS in conjunction with empirical research, to boot) is a blessing.”
We invite you to support the Foundation for Self Leadership during this season of holidays and make the cause of the Foundation one of the causes you consistently support. The 501(c)(3) Foundation accepts regular cash donations or gifts of stock.
Here is a sample of some significant accomplishments your partnership with us made possible, along with new priorities in which we hope to engage and for which we need your continued stewardship:
Evidence-Based Status. Building on the IFS research paper by Shadick, Sowell et al., we prepared a detailed application to the
Harley Goldberg, D.O. is a physician executive in The Permanente Medical Group, Northern California Kaiser Permanente. His administrative roles focus on establishing integrated systems of care for large populations across multiple medical services.