Who’s On Your Crew?

Getting to Know Your Inner Crews

A Self Leadership Journey

Making Sense of Your Inner World

There is a whole world inside you — a living inner system made up of emotions, instincts, beliefs, memories, and protective strategies that learned, over time, how to help you survive, belong, and stay safe.

You may experience these inner forces as moods, reactions, patterns, inner voices, or versions of yourself that seem to “take over” in certain moments. When one of these takes the lead, it doesn’t feel like a part — it feels like you.

And then, at another time, a very different version of you shows up. This can be confusing, frustrating, and sometimes painful. This work exists to help make sense of that inner experience — so you are no longer confusing to yourself.

What Are Inner Crews?

In this framework, we call these protective patterns Inner Crews (or simply Crews).

There are nine distinct constellations of parts and patterns that tend to organize the human inner world. Each Crew forms around a core vulnerability or wound and develops specific ways of protecting you from pain, overwhelm, or threat.

Your Crews are not flaws.

• They are not diagnoses.
  
  
• They are not fixed personality types.
  
  
• They are intelligent, adaptive responses your system developed in response to real experiences and real emotional environments.

The challenge is not that these Crews exist — it’s that they were never meant to run your life.

When Crews Take the Helm

Crews tend to take the lead when your system does not feel safe — when you are tired, overwhelmed, emotionally activated, or disconnected from yourself. For some people this state of unsafety has been temporary; for others, it has been a lifelong condition.

When a Crew is leading, your perception narrows, reactions intensify, and your sense of choice diminishes — and you may strongly identify with that state as “who I am.”

This assessment helps you recognize which Crews tend to take the helm, how they try to protect you, and what they are organized around.

Self Leadership: The Missing Piece

Behind all of these Crews is something deeper — your Self.

Self is not a part, role, or strategy. It is your natural leadership capacity, characterized by calm, clarity, compassion, courage, connectedness, confidence, creativity, and curiosity.

When Self is accessible, your inner system becomes more coherent. Protective Crews relax. Reactivity softens. Choice returns. And something essential becomes possible: Self Leadership.

This is not about eliminating parts, fixing yourself, or becoming someone else. It is about restoring the right order of leadership within your inner world.

Your Crews don’t need to be fired. They need to be led.

How This Works

1. Begin with understanding:
   Download the free guide Getting to Know Your Inner Crews: A Self Leadership Journey.
   
   
2. Take the assessment:
   Identify protective patterns, get to know your crew, and gauge your current level of Self Leadership.
   
   
3. Receive your personalized report:
   Get to know your top crew members, what their roles are, and insight into the path to growth.
   
   
4. Go deeper (optional):
   Explore How to Talk Amongst Your Selves or work with a coach to build lasting inner trust and Self Leadership.

A Final Note

You don’t need to identify with any particular Crew to begin. Curiosity, honesty, and self-kindness are enough.

This work is not about becoming better. It’s about becoming more Self-led.

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The Who’s On Your Crew? Self Leadership Assessment is developed by Guy Reichard, HeartRich Coaching, and is based on his IFS-inspired Self Leadership Framework and book How to Talk Amongst Your Selves: A Beginner's Guide to Self Leadership

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