The Meaningful Engagement Program (MEP) at OSI Sanctuary Sites
“As we move into the future, there can be no realistic conversation around human healing without the meaningful incorporation of environmentally informed therapies.”
– Denise Joseph, J.D., FLS
OSI Online for Flexibility, Discretion & Access
OSI-type Portfolio Psychotechnology was designed for access anywhere on Earth through secure teleplatform technology. The OSI name is symbolic of the telehealth revolution itself. Open Sea Institute was among the first organizations in its field to embrace and celebrate remote access to mental healthcare. At OSI, we believe that the remote appointment model is a uniquely modern luxury that affords optimal outcomes for patients who may suddenly receive world-class care in the comfort of their own homes, offices, planes, or hotel suites.
Open Sea Institute maintains anchor sites in South Florida, New Orleans, London, and the Nantahala National Rain Forest on the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
At OSI, we are committed to reducing the opportunity for stigma, preserving privacy, and to promoting productivity and flexibility for our highly motivated clientele.
West Palm Beach, South Florida, USA
Open Sea Institute’s administrative port sits at the edge of one of South Florida’s historic working marinas on a private peninsula along the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach.
The setting is unhurried. Superyachts line the docks. The Institute’s offices face the waters. Manatees surface and roll in the shallows just off the seawall. Dolphins arc through the channel. Stingrays, sea turtles, and eels glide elegantly in plain sight, and fish scatter in rainbow-bright flashes through blue-green water so clear the sun cuts straight to the bottom. Occasionally, a whale breaches. OSI’s daily environment is not an artificial Zoom backdrop. In this exemplary ecosystem, where the interplay of man, animal and machine sits on display, Open Sea Institute’s clinical and research work unfolds.
Open Sea Institute was built on the conviction that health, like the water surrounding our home port, is a dynamic, interconnected system; not a series of isolated problems to be triaged and discharged. At OSI West Palm Beach, the natural world is close enough to touch, to taste, to smell and to breathe.
Nantahala National Rain Forest, Blue Ridge Mountain Range, North Carolina, USA
Established to reverse the hundreds-years movement away from Nature as Primary Healer, Open Sea Lodge at Nantahala Water Mountain sits on the Blue Ridge of the North America’s treasured Appalachian Mountain Range, Earth’s second oldest mountain range. Open Sea Lodge at Nantahala Water Mountain offers a curated, OSI-type Eco Medical meeting place for our clients in one of only two North American Rainforests. Luxuriously appointed and seamlessly sited for privacy and access to the high-end shopping, dining, and cultural offerings of Cashiers-Highlands, NC, the Open Sea Lodge at Nantahala Water Mountain is situated in a primeval forest where our
community can experience North America’s most biodiverse flora and fauna. Home to the American Moose, Bear, Wolf, Big Cat, and countless other species, the Appalachian Mountain Range is a sanctuary for all living things—four-legged, two-legged, and no-legged.
Open Sea Lodge at Nantahala Water Mountain is also home to the Open Sea Institute Research Initiative System (OSIRIS), the privately funded, independent, scientific research program led by Drs. Louis and Denise Joseph, investigating how biological and behavioral systems organize, maintain, and recover coordinated function under pressure. OSIRIS produces original contributions to scientific literature and directly informs every clinical, coaching, and executive protocol delivered under the OSI name. OSIRIS maintains active collaborations with academic institutions and welcomes inquiries from researchers, clinicians, and organizations interested in the science of organismal coordinated function and performance.
Open Sea Institute is pleased to meet clients for occasional in-person experiences at Nantahala Water Mountain. Please contact interfacewithus@opensea.institute for more information.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Open Sea Institute maintains an office in one of the most notable ecclesiastical corridors in the American South. In the Garden District of New Orleans, along the blocks once designated “Ecclesiastical Square,” three Catholic churches rose side by side in the mid-nineteenth century, each built by Redemptorist Fathers to serve the immigrant faithful French, Irish, and German flooding into the city. In the shadow of this living history, Open Sea Institute maintains its presence.
The spiritual anchor of the corridor is the National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos. When Yellow Fever terrorized New Orleans for over a century, killing more than forty-one thousand between 1817 and 1905, it was the willingness of individuals like Father Seelos to walk toward suffering — not away from it — that held the community together. The New Orleans office of Open Sea Institute sits in admiration of that lineage. Open Sea Institute’s New Orleans address is not just a location. It is a reminder of high-fidelity care
Open Sea Institute is pleased to meet clients for occasional in-person visits in New Orleans. Please contact interfacewithus@opensea.institute for more information.
Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
Mayfair is home to Burlington House and its storied Courtyard Societies— 5 of the world’s oldest and most prominent learned societies including the Geological Society of London, the Linnean Society of London, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2026, Open Sea Institute Founders, Denise Joseph and Louis Joseph,
were elected Fellows of the Linnean Society of London, the worlds’ oldest active biological sciences and natural history society with a membership that includes Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, fathers of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Open Sea Institute is pleased to meet clients for occasional in-person visits in the heart of Mayfair. Please contact interfacewithus@opensea.institute for more information.
Photo by Chris Beeson