We just completed our second Co-Creative Lab at Florida State University. This lab was entirely co-led by two of our student facilitators, Josh Mesnik and Zach Kaye. It provided a structured forum for all the participants to explore their values, aspirations, purpose, and […]
At Eastern Mennonite Graduate School this November, we explored what it would take to make the QUESTion Project available to graduate students.
In this 6-hour co-creative session, titled the QUESTion Summit for Social Change and Conflict Transformation, we journeyed into our five […]
Our team facilitated QUESTion workshops at Pace University’s lower Manhattan campus. These were done with students enrolled in undergraduate environmental science courses taught by adjunct professor Lee Frankel-Goldwater. The workshops were met with enthusiasm and an authentic desire to go […]
~~Derya, Isobel, Josh, Vivian, Zack worked together with the Open Future Institute Team to shape the new QUESTion curriculum. In this discussion they share their experience and thoughts on why it is important for young people to get engaged with […]
Yes… Oman! We had the wonderful opportunity to lead a QUESTion workshop with 40 students at the National Hospitality School, a vocational school in Muscat, the capital of Oman. The students were from Oman as well as expats from Bangladesh, […]
Open Future Institute Founder Gerard Senehi recently delivered a thematic presentation at the annual conference of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) which took place in Seattle, Washington, this October. His presentation, titled Bridging the Connection Between What […]
QUESTion engaged with youth from around the world in an interactive session for Miracle Corners of the World’s youth leadership retreat in Vermont this past July. Our FSU student leader, Josh Mesnik, traveled to the retreat where he led a […]
We welcomed five interns to join our team to refine the content and core messages of our QUESTion Project. We now have a program that’s more age appropriate, experience-based, and incredibly engaging. The new curriculum will be used in our second […]
By Gerard Senehi
Eleanor Roosevelt famously said: “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.”
Dear Eleanor, did you really mean responsibility? Doesn’t freedom mean that I am no longer told what to do, how to think […]
