Gerard Senehi
Gerard Senehi is driven by a passion for expanding what we consider possible. He is one of the world's leading mentalists, an educator, and founder of Open Future Institute.
As a mentalist, Gerard uses his talent in a unique way to evoke mystery and inspire innovative thinking about life and the future. Gerard has been featured on dozens of television shows internationally including The Today Show, Fox News Sunday and Ellen, and has presented all over the world for heads of states and many of the biggest corporations. He has given hundreds of talks – each of them unique – for corporations and conferences such as TED, TEDx, Sages and Scientists, and Imagine Solutions. He has an exceptional ability to get even the most sophisticated audiences to suspend their ideas, inspiring people to think in new ways. He is the recipient of the Dunninger Award, the highest award from the association of his peers.
As an educator, Gerard founded Open Future Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of culture. In 2013, Open Future Institute launched the QUESTion Project which inspires youth to live a life of infinite possibilities by engaging with Big life questions. Through a curriculum that directly addresses some of the most important life questions, students find an opportunity to be themselves, expand their understanding of who they are, and explore their future with vision and purpose. The QUESTion Project's long terms mission is that one day, education will broadly include core human questions as foundational to the development of youth.
Gerard is a graduate of Amherst College and received his Masters in Psychological Education from the University of Massachusetts. He taught Science, French and Art and was a social worker, before embarking on a creative path as an entertainer and an educator. He is an active philanthropist and a member of the 50% League, defined as donors who have given half or more of their income, assets or business profits. He is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2014. He is also a member of the Evolutionary Leaders, a group of thought leaders who share a passion for the evolution of culture and convene annually to share their work and find ways to strengthen the field. He lives in New York City with his wife Francesca where they work together on Open Future Institute and the QUESTion Project.
Gerard Senehi is driven by a passion for expanding what we consider possible. He is one of the world's leading mentalists, an educator, and founder of Open Future Institute.
As a mentalist, Gerard uses his talent in a unique way to evoke mystery and inspire innovative thinking about life and the future. Gerard has been featured on dozens of television shows internationally including The Today Show, Fox News Sunday and Ellen, and has presented all over the world for heads of states and many of the biggest corporations. He has given hundreds of talks – each of them unique – for corporations and conferences such as TED, TEDx, Sages and Scientists, and Imagine Solutions. He has an exceptional ability to get even the most sophisticated audiences to suspend their ideas, inspiring people to think in new ways. He is the recipient of the Dunninger Award, the highest award from the association of his peers.
As an educator, Gerard founded Open Future Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of culture. In 2013, Open Future Institute launched the QUESTion Project which inspires youth to live a life of infinite possibilities by engaging with Big life questions. Through a curriculum that directly addresses some of the most important life questions, students find an opportunity to be themselves, expand their understanding of who they are, and explore their future with vision and purpose. The QUESTion Project's long terms mission is that one day, education will broadly include core human questions as foundational to the development of youth.
Gerard is a graduate of Amherst College and received his Masters in Psychological Education from the University of Massachusetts. He taught Science, French and Art and was a social worker, before embarking on a creative path as an entertainer and an educator. He is an active philanthropist and a member of the 50% League, defined as donors who have given half or more of their income, assets or business profits. He is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2014. He is also a member of the Evolutionary Leaders, a group of thought leaders who share a passion for the evolution of culture and convene annually to share their work and find ways to strengthen the field. He lives in New York City with his wife Francesca where they work together on Open Future Institute and the QUESTion Project.
The Wonder of Mystery
New York Magazine has described this performance "like some sort of religious experience from the 16th century." Gerard spontanesoulsy amazes his audience in so many ways that the most sophisticated people are left with a sense of being transported into an alternative world. With a light and spontaeous approach that touches even the most jaded people, Gerard demonstrates impossible feats while playing with the question of what's real and what is unreal. The audience is left with an...
Innovation and the Unknown
This program shatters the cliche of "breaking out of the box" with a performance of mystery that is so creative and captivating that it that it authentically evokes a spirit of not knowing and suspension of ideas. With the exerpience of wonder and not knowing that this performance of mentalism creates, Gerard brings awareness to the potential for new discoveries that is released when we hold this positive space for what we don't know.
Walkaround Mentalism
Gerard Senehi is regarded by his peers as the best walkaround mentalist in the world. It is his spontaneous approach that catches people off guard and conveys the sense of the impossible nature of what they witness. Gerard can borrow any object that people have on them and do something inexplicable with them. He tells people what they are thinking and even have people guess numbers that he writes down and offers them big money if they get it wrong! As he mingles through the crowd at in a...
