Self Led You: Nurturing Leadership Inside and Out

Self Led You offers services to help build capabilities for Self leadership. Self leadership is a fundamental principle in Internal Family Systems (IFS), a systemic and evidence-based psychological modality. In IFS, Self leadership is understood as a learnable set of skills that, among other things, enable us to make decisions using long-range and wide-angle perspectives that are in alignment with our core values.

As skills in Self leadership are honed within an individual or group, they typically experience a greater freedom and an ability to see additional ways forward. As we apply this skill within ourselves, we also improve our ability to see and fill the needs of others around us, and so improve our relationship with our wider surroundings. Practising Self leadership helps build inner and outer leadership capabilities that are sorely needed in today's world.

To facilitate means to “make easier; help bring about.” Self Led You is a facilitation service that helps individuals and groups develop their Self leadership. This is a private practice covered by professional indemnity insurance in both the UK and Sweden, and adheres to ethical standards of governing professional bodies in psychotherapy and coaching. This practice strives to be welcoming of diversity and meet the global challenges we all play a part in while taking accountability for our collective histories.

Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a systemic and evidence-based psychological modality. IFS believes that our minds, just as groups of people, are naturally multiple (made up of “parts”) and that this is natural and good. Just like members of a family, our inner parts can work in harmony together, or be forced from their natural, valuable states into unhelpful or sometimes extreme roles.

IFS believes we all have a core Self. In IFS, “Self” is a capacity present in everyone that is impermeable to harm. It is a natural leader inside of us who knows what to do, how to connect, and how to heal. By helping us first access our inner Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal parts of ourselves, IFS creates inner and outer connectedness. Its systemic approach makes it an ideal to use with complex inner landscapes as well as complex social structures such as groups and organisations.

As we integrate more and more of ourselves, we experience an increased sense of inner trust and flow that is part of what is called Self leadership. Over time, we find ourselves with the resources needed to deal with complexity and make truly constructive, sustainable and congruent decisions. This process is analogous with groups, where increased interpersonal trust and appreciation create a context over time where the best outcomes are possible.

About

Andreas Michael is a supervised IFS Practitioner, a certified coach, organisational consultant, and project management professional. He's a member of the IFS Institute and Internal Family Systems UK. He is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society and a coach certified by the Institute for Leadership and Management in the UK. Andreas holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of London, Birkbeck, an MSc in Economics from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and a BSc in Economics from Stockholm University, Sweden. He has completed programs in IFS-Inspired Coaching, Process-Oriented Psychology (Process Work), and Shadow Work, and has undergone numerous professional development activities as an organisational consultant and project management professional in the UK and Sweden.

Andreas has been working daily with the IFS model since 2014. He first learned to use it with himself and then opened a private practice as an IFS Practitioner in 2016. He is part of teaching teams for IFS trainings in the UK and have facilitated workshops at IFS conferences in the UK and the US. His work as an IFS Practitioner has taken many forms over the years, from group work in professional settings to working with individuals, both in predefined short-term stretches to open-ended long-term periods. Over the years, his clients have brought a great variety of topics to approach and contexts to work within.

Services

Private individuals and groups

Hourly sessions: I offer 50- or 80-minute sessions, either online or in-person.
Longer sessions: When clients feel it is required to reach certain goals, I offer intensive programs (full-day or multi-day). I have also assisted clients with self-development endeavours that they planned.

Workplaces

Management coaching: I have facilitated complex organisational changes and assisted with conflict resolution. Both online and in-person formats can work well. For in-person meetings, we can meet at my venue in central Malmö, I can come to your place of work, or a different venue of your choosing.
With co-workers: Usually I come to the workplace. I can also invite co-workers to come to my venue in central Malmö. An online format can also work well for coaching with individual co-workers.

Languages: Services are offered in Swedish or English. I do speak some Hungarian, Spanish, and French (in that order).

Fees: I strive to offer my services at a price that is fair and down-to-earth. I take particular care to keep this work accessible to private individuals and do offer concessions when needed. Please contact me for details.

Contact

Please e-mail me on . I aim to respond to all inquiries within three working days.

Location: Terapi- & Friskvårdscentrum at Spångatan 20A in Malmö, Sweden (map).

Emergencies: If you are in a crisis right now and need to talk to somebody immediately there are several options. First, if you or someone close to you is in imminent danger of harming themselves or someone else, always call 112. Other options: In the UK, Samaritans offer a 24 hour help line on 08457 90 90 90. There is also likely to be a local Crisis Line in your area offering 24 hour advice and support on mental health issues. You can find this by searching online for Crisis Line + your area. 0300 1234 244 is the number for West London. In Sweden, you may call Hjälplinjen on 90390 or Mind's suicide hotline (“Självmordslinjen”) on 90101. You can also call the emergency number, 112, and ask for the on-call priest (“jourhavande präst”).