The Foundation for Self Leadership is dedicated to advancing research and advocacy around applications of the IFS psychotherapy modality and self-awareness paradigm. The IFS mindfulness-based model, which is anchored in multiplicity-of-mind and systems theories, has a myriad promising outcomes within and beyond mental health, including pain management, health coaching, organizational governance and development, legal mediation, and school counseling. Thousands of practitioners and their clients have experienced how intuitive and beneficial the IFS model can be, especially when we each look at our own self as a family of inner parts and learn how to access wise, calming, and transformational attributes of the state of Self within. Tapping our inner sources of compassion for ourselves and others, as one example, and evaluating situations and relations without judgment change how we look and operate in our world. By examining the model and establishing an empirical evidence base for IFS in various service areas and expanding its scope, the Foundation will help bring healing and well-being to individuals, couples, families, business and not-for-profit organizations, and communities. The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was developed by Richard Schwartz, PhD, in the early eighties.