Student Ambassadors Lead Inspiring Workshop At Global Kids
Five of our star QUESTion Student Ambassadors came together last week to facilitate a 3-hour workshop for their peers at Global Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides global education and leadership development programs for NYC-based youth.
This was one of […]
Student Ambassadors Take QUESTion Out of the Classroom
As our QUESTion alumni family grows, so do our program offerings. We’ve launched our first-ever afterschool QUESTion Ambassador Program for students who have taken the Course and wish to stay involved. Their voices are reaching beyond the classroom as […]
Model High School In Its Second Year
A new semester is underway at our model school, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics. Now in our second year of partnership, a team of newly trained BCSM teachers have become QUESTion Facilitators and stand […]
The QUESTion Project: We Are Busy this Summer!
At Open Future Institute Headquarters, we have an international hive this Summer…from India to Egypt, to the Bronx….we are so happy to have with us 13 interns, in addition to our staff. Srikanth who is […]
Bronx Center of Science and Math: An Inspiring Story
We successfully concluded our first year at the Bronx Center of Science and Math this past June. We ran three daily elective classes, and the impact on the students, as we can see from our […]
Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Gerard Senehi, Founder of Open Future Institute, was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor last week.
NECO, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, sponsors the award, which is presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished […]
TEDx Talk: Why Big Questions Matter
Our Student Coordinator, Josh, just returned from giving a TED Talk at the TEDxFSU conference at Florida State University. In his talk he spoke about why big questions matter in education, and how his own explorations into big […]
Welcome OFI Netherlands: Our Newest Chapter
We are thrilled to announce our first international chapter in the Netherlands! Led by our dear friends Florence Fabbricotti and Chris Hollanders with an Advisory Board of three (Susanne de Neeve, Bas de Jong and […]
The QUESTion Project Begins in the South Bronx, NYC
We have formed a wonderful partnership with the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public school in the in the South Bronx, NY. This is a great school that has been selected as a […]
Second QUESTion CO-Creative Lab Sparks Curiosity at Florida State University
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 […]
Graduate Students Get a Taste of The QUESTion Project at a Daylong Summit
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, […]
The QUESTion Project at PACE UNIVERSITY, NYC
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 […]
The QUESTion Project in …Oman!
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 […]
OFI Founder Presents at ACMHE Conference
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 […]
International Youth Explore Big Questions at Miracle Corners of the World
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 […]
Summer Internship
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 […]