We believe the future is in our hands. As our name suggests, the approach of Open Future Institute is informed by a conviction that the future is not pre-determined but open to our influence, molded by our individual and collective choices, and informed by our deeper values and shared cultural agreements.

We have the power to shape our shared values and ways of defining meaning with tremendous implications for ourselves, our environment, and the systems that sustain us.

Our approach at Open Future Institute starts with education.

In a time of unprecedented choice, complexity (and risk), students need support in learning a crucial life skill: the ability to define their future in the context of purpose. We support students in the juncture between college and young adulthood as they navigate career paths, relationships, and other facets of their outer and inner lives.

By creating space for students to explore the choices they face, the purpose that will inform these choices, and the larger world that these choices exist in, we not only empower students to be themselves but to discover more expansive values through their independent efforts.

We empower young people to go forward with confidence, even if they haven’t yet found the tangible paths to take. Direction is the first step to changing the future…