Behind the polished exteriors of Fortune 500 Executives, innovators, politicians, elite athletes, and their peers often lie untold stories of struggle. High-performing individuals frequently face crushing pressures unique to high achievement in a global era. Research has found that as many as 72% of entrepreneurs have mental health-related concerns.
Approximately 50% reported having lifetime mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance use conditions, and bipolar disorder. Another study finds that 21% of CEOs and Senior Corporate Professionals are psychopaths, mirroring the percentage of psychopaths in the prison population.
These mental health challenges, often invisible to the outside world, can profoundly affect performance, decision-making, family life, overall well-being, and the bottom line. Recognizing the critical and nuanced needs of highly intelligent, highly motivated, highly mobile, and high net-worth individuals are Dr. Denise Joseph and Dr. Louis Joseph, founders of the Open Sea Institute (OSI), who partner with high-performing individuals seeking to enhance their resilience, creativity, satisfaction, relationships, overall health, and portfolio performance.
The company offers a founder-innovated and proprietary blend of unique psychiatry, coaching, and wellness services. Open Sea Institute caters to an international community of high achievers looking to heal and strengthen their relationships with their psyches and surroundings while simultaneously offering outreach to communities of the indigent and differently abled across the rural and inner-city U.S.
Redefining Mental Health Care for the Elite
Open Sea Institute stands out like a golden thumb in the crowded field of mental health services by focusing on a unique clientele: those at the top of the game. Executive entrepreneurs themselves with surprisingly multidisciplinary professional portfolios, Denise and Louis Joseph, exist in a rarefied world of art and money culture, affording them a capacity to understand the psychology of high-achieving, high-net-worth individuals in a way that their competitors simply cannot.
Dr. Denise Joseph, primary Open Sea Institute founder and resident coach, says, “Those who have achieved much often inherently recognize talent when they see it. Open Sea Institute provides unmatched expertise and quality of care to the world’s elite operators. We’re true collaborators in the most supportive sense, exploring existing constructions of reality and introducing paradigm shifts as we journey with these individuals.”
Based in Palm Beach, Florida, Drs. Joseph recently traveled to London for the fanfare release of the publication 120 Years of Rolls-Royce, a luxurious hardbound album authored by London Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Ray Massey, commemorating Rolls Royce’s 120-year journey of undisputed excellence wherein Open Sea Institute’s partnership with the Rolls Royce RREC was memorialized in a striking spread.
The OSI Approach to Mental Wellness
Dr. Denise Joseph and Dr. Louis Joseph are method innovators. That means they have innovated their own proprietary body of theory and practice. Denise and Louis are the originators and practitioners of OSI-type coaching, OSI-type Psychiatry, and OSI-type Eco Medicine–physically non-invasive programming designed for efficient entry into the abstruse regions of the mind responsible for gene expression, cellular health, ageing, performance, long-term behavior change, immune system functioning, emotional regulation, and self-esteem.
Drs. Denise and Louis Joseph developed the body of OSI-type methodology from research, intuition, instinct, and results. They are informed by psychodynamics, biochemistry, eastern philosophy, epigenetics, quantum physics, and sound medicine. OSI-type eco medicine is practiced at the Open Sea Lodge at Nantahala Water Mountain on the ancient American Blue Ridge Mountains in the Western Carolinas. Open Sea Institute also maintains anchor sites in South Florida, New Orleans, and London, offering clients visiting opportunities supplemental to regularized online platform meetings.
The Open Sea Institute’s mission goes well beyond healing sickness, though that is often a prerequisite, into a state of being OSI terms, “Superior Human Functioning.” ‘Superior Human Functioning’, says Dr. Denise Joseph, “is similar to the state commonly known as ‘Enlightenment’ but does not require monasticism. Rather, it calls for the highly practical, ‘real world’ experience of contemplation and growth on a daily basis.
Aside from the excellent benefits in life and work our community members reap, attendance is regarded as a form of hygiene for our community. OSI-type methodologies spur cellular and metabolic changes and affect gene expression. People experience integration with self, body, community, and metaphysics that is constantly evolving, has a pleasant regular feeling, is desired by both mind and body and is appreciated by loving friends and family.
Bridging the Gap between Behavior and Business Outcomes
Open Sea Institute bridges the gap between psychiatry, psychology, and what traditionally falls under the umbrella of business and organizational consulting. It is a fact that the overwhelming majority of psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists will have backgrounds and training in mental health. The overwhelming majority of white shoe consultants will have backgrounds and training in business. Coaches may have no formal education whatsoever, and the vast majority will not carry elite professional or educational portfolios in addition to, or in the absence of, expert psychiatry. What Open Sea Institute offers is rare and valuable.
Drs. Denise and Louis Joseph are uniquely able to shepherd clients, including Founders, CEOs, fund managers, and directors across diverse industries through complex, highly insight-oriented mental processes that add value to multifaceted internal and external organizational and business dealings, minimizing fallout and maximizing best outcomes.
The company’s C-Level Executive members regularly experience the radical realization that the pursuit, achievement, and maintenance of superior mental functioning reverberates throughout every facet of life and corporate governance, radically improving both personal and corporate senses of well-being.
Dr. Louis Joseph, a decorated medical doctor and psychiatrist, says, “What we can tell you, having worked with many entrepreneurs who have been quite successful and those who have been unsuccessful, is that mental pathology, which begets physical pathology, never helps. At best, it leads to somewhat diminished business outcomes and, at worst, utter failure.”
Denise continues, “The killer instinct that is so often lionized in the worlds of finance and business does not need to be killed. It should be celebrated but separated from the limiting elements of pathology. Visionaries can be eccentric, but they need not be depressed, anxious, addicted, or privately suicidal. Titans can, in fact, have happy families. This is the hill I will die on.”
Results at the Open Sea Institute translate both individually and on large scales, highlighting the efficacy of their multidisciplinary expertise. This is one way the OSI-type approach transcends traditional forms of coaching, consulting, and therapy. The OSI-type methodology is highly adaptive. The facility of expertise provided translates seamlessly from hiring decisions or the upcoming merger to issues surrounding a cheating spouse or substance-dependent child at home.
“We are not a computer module,” says Dr. Denise Joseph. “We are not an app. We are not an ‘out-of-the-box’, ‘one-size-fits-all’, manualized ‘half-day’, ‘all employee’, or ‘all-hands-on-deck’ set of team-building exercises. We do not utilize trite and corporatized language, concepts, or techniques. There is a reason these programs have experienced resentment en masse. Each and every client is a unique individual, and OSI-type methodology is 100% customized for each and every one of our people.”
Since most organizations are top-down operations that depend on the decisions and inspiration of their leaders, OSI believes that the most efficacious approach is one that starts with the individual’s highest achiever.
Additionally, Open Sea Institute has the capacity to provide seamless care to high achievers’ families and employees. At Open Sea Institute, privacy, discretion, and protection from stigma are paramount and are vital to the intimate relationships formed in the Open Sea Community. The company’s foundation on teleplatform technology promotes privacy and discretion in addition to facilitating access for its highly mobile clientele.
Transforming Global Well-being
The Open Sea Institute’s impact extends far beyond individual clients. Focusing on leaders and influencers across various sectors, the institute indirectly shapes well-being worldwide, consistent with the butterfly effect theory on which it was founded.
Dr. Denise Joseph says, “At Open Sea Institute, we seek to engineer a reality that respects and loves the human individual as the bedrock of civilization. The work Open Sea Institute generates is primarily foundational due to our realization that investment in self is not only an investment in the individual, family, or community but an investment in the nation, in the state, in the economy and GDP, and in our collective future. We know that societies will truly flourish when mental health is adequately prioritized and incentivized in populations.”
She continues, “OSI was formed to create a societal shift towards positive, sustainable, and ethical growth through the active exploration and celebration of the human person, whose potential has, to date, gone undervalued and underutilized. When the costs to society of war, suicide, addiction, overweight, depression, anxiety, homelessness, divorce, lack of family planning, poor parenting, molestation, and abuse are calculated, the losses are staggering. The costs of wasted human potential are staggering. No item aforementioned cannot be served by the impactful, institutionalized, systemized mental interposition of Open Sea Institute.”
For individuals interested in Open Sea Institute’s offerings, please visit Opensea.Institute or email interfacewithus@opensea.institute
