Open Up is pioneering breathwork & Inner growth
for the shift and shifters in service of a new culture
Welcome,
I'm quite confident that our external challenges are intimately linked to our inner struggles. The emergence of our time calls for a generous and adventurous descend that leads us to interesting new places that open up other ways of seeing, learning, living, evolving, thriving, and relating in the world.
Open Up is a breathwork and inner growth institute, and an attempt to cultivate the necessary rupture and wisdom for that. It is an ecology of practices, a research inquiry, and experimentation for ways of opening ourselves to the unknown and the unimaginable in partnership with the more-than-human world. It is a process of becoming other-wise in an embodied way in service of a new culture and living planet for future generations.
This is not merely about being and acting differently in the world, but also about co-creating new worldviews that are prerequisites for true societal and cultural transformation. Can you take an instant to visualize this event?
Looking forward to connect,
Katrien Franken, founder
Katrien Franken
I'm a multiple award-winning artist, social entrepreneur, educator, breathwork and inner growth facilitator, researcher, writer, poet, and activist, as well as founder of Open Up. I view my work as an act of journey; an expression of assembled studies, longings, learnings, spiritual practice, collaborations, failures, experiments, and experience of twenty years at the edges of our evolutionary growth.
Open Up acts as a portal
Based on our own research, training and experience for
transformation, we bring care to four worlds of work.
Mystical
experiences
Opening relationsships
We open up the bodymind in carefully curated journeys to make the unconscious, conscious. Accessing altered states of consciousness which changes the nervous system, changes the state of our mind, and changes the way we perceive the world. This state reveals deep existential truths about interconnectedness and life and helps to co-generate
care in partnership with the more than human world. We honor the interdependence of life.
Spontaneous
Catharsis
Opening embodiment
We believe in the power of fully inhabiting our bodies, honoring the wisdom we come with. We make space for rupture and cultivate a profound receptivity for opening to the real in a non-directional way. Shifting perspectives, rooted in an ecology of care. We support the release and relief from what is holding us back to come to new senses and perspectives of power, joy, and freedom.
Serious
Play
Opening imagination
We consider play to be an essential part of a learning process throughout life. Serious Play engages fundamental transformative processes for us with a deep care for strange encounters in ecosystems of being. With a high level of sophistication we move from our orderly world to a place of openness,
imagination, creativity, and connection,
Psychological insight
Opening wisdom
Opening to the kind of knowing by Being that grounds our ability to make sense of the intelligible of reality and truth, intimately.
A conscious process of engaging in inquiry, rigorous thinking, feeling the emotions and gathering the necessary insight for constructive meaning-making. Combining
philosophical, contemplative practice with the Sciences, Arts and complexity.
A stunning invitation is in the air, urging us to rethink ourselves, our ways of learning and our actions in the world to what mutually benefits us. In an Open Up based pedagogy, the longing is to deeply explore what it means to be alive in the world today, being in the body and to bring more than just breathwork, more than just solutions, more than just a future. We practice breathwork to open to new places of power where there is joy in carrying the health and well-being of our interconnectedness. Join us in this activism of inquiry to unleash energy in bodies, in flows, in possibilities, from the raw unknowing of transformation and meaningful experiences to a place of rooted possibilities.
Longing
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Our
PHILANTHROPY
Open Up's impact initiatives are set out by Katrien Franken in 2020, and are deep offerings to whole systems change. A human investment in a future of inspiration and longevity, unlocking new opportunities for radical change and healing.
She's exploring how the conditions of transformation come together on the fringes of the culture. Her engagement is with deep inner practices, and journeys of coming alive to critical shifts in ways that allow ruptures to grow the new.
