INSPIRE. EDUCATE. ACTIVATE.
Breathwork & Inner growth for the
shift and shifters, in service of Life
Welcome,
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, being, living, learning, evolving, thriving, and relating in the world. I'm quite confident that our external challenges are intimately linked to our inner struggles.
For 20+ years been blown away by the power of breathwork and how it can take you on a collective journey into the deep code of culture as you explore the deepest parts of yourself. I founded Open Up in 2015 as an attempt to cultivate the necessary rupture and wisdom for becoming other-wise in an embodied way. I do this by creating transformative experiences that expand and invite us to find ways to evolve and thrive, and bring a better future into being. I offer experiential and educational learning journeys and science-based breathwork weaving relationships between people and place, and elevating consciousness and intelligence in combination with systemic transformation practices. These processes are not merely about being and acting differently, but also about co-creating new worldviews in service of future generations and the living planet. Can you take an instant to visualize this event?
Katrien Franken
The power of your own breath.
Simple, effective and a real game changer.
Katrien Franken
I'm a counsellor, breathwork practitioner and facilitator, researcher, educator, systems thinker and social entrepreneur, passionate about creating opportunities for transformation of people - and through that, transformation of society and the planet. My work over the last 20+ years brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology together with breathwork. I focus on bringing new ways of seeing and being from the margins of culture into the mainstream. Prior to Open Up, I've been a multiple award-winning artist / photographer.
Systems
SHIFTING INITIATIVES
As someone who's passionate about whole systems change, these initiatives are a deep offerings into that. It is a human investment in a future of inspiration and longevity, unlocking new opportunities for radical imagination, impact change and healing. An exploration how the conditions of transformation come together on the fringes of the culture.
Methodology
A Coming of Place
A Coming of Place (term by Katrien Franken) is an invitation that urges us to rethink ourselves, our ways of learning and our actions in the world to what mutually benefits us. It signals a movement from a process and story of personal growth, identity, and self-discovery (a coming of age) towards A Coming of Place perspective. It is a process and idea of re-sensitizing ourselves to other worlds and away from the dominant human-centered view, calling for a new ecological imagination and expansion. With this stunning invitation and process, Katrien hopes to offer more than just breathwork, more than just solutions, more than just a future.
Mystical
experiences
Elevating Consciousness
We challenge and support individuals to breathe and open up in consciousness and the body, and move beyond the intellectual or conventional. In carefully created journeys we open to access altered states of consciousness, which changes the nervous system, changes the state of our mind, and changes the way we perceive the world. From this elevated state that reveals deep existential truths about life & interconnectedness, we start our transformation.
Spontaneous
Catharsis
Shifting Perspectives
Open Up's experiential learning journeys make space for rupture to release and unleash energy, to shift perspectives and cultivate a profound receptivity for opening to the real in a non directional way. In that shift we open to new senses and perspectives of joy, power, and freedom to become other-wise. We learn to shift perspectives and co-generate possibilities in partnership with the more-than-human world.
Serious
Play
Opening Imagination
We consider serious play to be an essential, transformative part of a learning process throughout life. We want to help people imagine new futures in a time of upheaval.
Breathwork expands into deeper beliefs as well as higher calling.
With a high level of sophistication, we bring a deep care for strange encounters in ecosystems of being, and move from our orderly world to a place of imagination, openness, connection, and creativity. Note: Experiments are part of everything we do.
Psychological insight
Cultivating Wisdom
We are inspired to expand our
intelligence and wisdom into conscious responsive action. We do that by cultivating the kind of knowing by Being that grounds our ability to make sense of reality, and truth. We combine
connective breathwork, somatic
inquiry, contemplative practice, and rigorous thinking with the sciences, arts and complexity for gathering the necessary insight for constructive meaning-making.
