About me
My name is Sebastian Schmied – sometimes called Sebi depending on the context, and officially registered with my birth name Frank-Sebastien. I am the father of three children, a biologist, a teacher by vocation, and a passionate companion for people who want to unfold their potential.
I grew up in Maloja, a small mountain village at over 1800 metres above sea level. There, Bargaiot was spoken – a Lombard-Rhaeto-Romance dialect. At school, Italian was the main language, at home it was French, and through my father, who was originally from Germany, German was also always present.
My father was a cook, and we lived in the staff housing of a hotel. Because people from all over the world come together in hospitality, I was surrounded by a great diversity of languages and cultures even as a child and teenager – despite living in a mountain village. This diversity and aliveness have shaped me and widened my perception early on.
I love nature, dancing, music, sport – and the soft voices of the birds in the morning.
My professional path began with a solid commercial apprenticeship in the municipal administration in Bregaglia, which gave me a clear foundation in the Swiss administrative system. Later, I studied biology at the University of Bern and at ETH Zurich and acquired a strong scientific grounding. Through my didactic and pedagogical training at the University of Zurich, as well as through many years of work in different educational settings, I developed a broad repertoire of teaching and learning methods. I am deeply grateful for this diversity of experience – it now forms the foundation of my work.
I am fascinated by the interplay between our nervous system, our inner experience and our relationship to the world. I have remained curious – about what reveals itself in nature, what is hidden in human interaction, and what even becomes visible through technology.
My own path has not always been easy. I know loneliness and darkness – and it was precisely in difficult phases that I found depth and growth. From this, a quiet knowing has grown: that true connection – to oneself, to others, to nature – is a grounding foundation.
Over many years, I have engaged deeply with myself: through profound psychological processes, through body-oriented work and through different forms of inner exploration. This inner work was not always easy, but it taught me to understand my wounds – and to transform them. Today, I am grateful for that. Because it has enabled me to accompany others in their depth – with respect, softness and awareness.
Constellation work has accompanied me for more than twenty years. It has expanded my scientific way of thinking, opened new perspectives for me, and taught me to honour what remains unspoken.
I have been fortunate to learn from many people – from teachers, from friends, and from encounters that left traces within me. Some were loud, others quiet. Each one of them showed me something that led me further.
Today, I love creating spaces in which people are allowed to be real. Spaces where questions are welcome – and where each person can find their own answers
I believe in the aliveness within each of us.
And that it reveals itself when it is invited.
Link to the interview with me as part of the “How are you really” initiative