A letter to the IFS community from Harley Goldberg, DO, Chair, Board of Directors | August 19, 2019
Dear Members of the IFS Community,
On behalf of the Board of Directors of your Foundation for Self Leadership, I am pleased to update you on the status of your Foundation’s executive director search process, which was initiated in February 2019.
The Foundation is pleased to publish the April 2019 Edition of OUTLOOK.
Read about how the US Veterans can find hope through IFS as well as greater self-care and burnout prevention; the efforts to expand diversity in IFS trainings; and how the Foundation’s ambitious vision aligns with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new set of goals launched by the United Nations.
This issue of OUTLOOK features Foundation’s formal search for next seasoned Executive Director; release of a new look for IFS logo; and how IFS is entwined with Other Models.
Other community updates include collaborations between CSL and the Foundation; global self-awareness and healing through Foundation Friday at the IFS Conference; and number of operational updates.
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 arrival of the November 2018 (and eighth) edition of OUTLOOK.
Read about how the Foundation and its Swiss partner, Education 4 Peace, are joining hands with Pixar Animation Studios for a global campaign to promote emotional health and well-being; how teachers’ own emotional awareness and learning can help students build resilience over time; and how through parts work bridges may be built between parents and children for better parenting relationships.
Other community updates include IFS-inspired courageous conversations by a radio host; the completion of the study on IFS as a treatment for Complex Trauma; and life-changing stories through the IFS lens.
The Foundation rolls out its new logo with an iconic symbol that captures Self at the core of our human psyche, guiding our separate colorful parts and keeping them connected.
The symbol brings to mind an image of a lotus flower representing calm as each drop of dew slides over its petals or perhaps a butterfly recently freed from its cocoon with the lightness and delicateness of a new dawn.