ALIVE LEARNING
For the young
This Initiative
The call to revolutionize schooling is not so much an attempt to create a new world, as it is an invitation to lean into the mystery of the world that now is, and re-engage with it. Open Up asks us to do this work.
Since 2015, I have been birthing curious events, transformative learning journeys and engagements for positive change, including radical health change in mental healthcare, youth empowerment and breathwork for refugee youth in Uganda, leadership & activism, new scientific research in conscious connected breathing, making futures possible in the midst of systems collapse. At the root of it all is relearning how we learn.
WHAT IF?
What if education could contribute to the health of emerging adults with experiential dynamic practices?
What if our places of learning oriented away from learning about the world in order to act upon it, to learning to become with the world in- and around us?
What if we can we open and listen to what is alive and emergent, and integrate it into our daily practices?
What if we would spark more opportunities for people to experience the depth and mystery of life, to be in better service of all life?
What if we can we learn from “other worlds” to enrich all our worlds?
What infrastructures are needed – in terms of space, money, institutional setups, skills and expertise, and more?
Re-imagining
education as health.
This initiative is in support of sowing the seeds of a new education, because it's too late to educate in the ways we know how. How can we start to imagine education as health? A relational innovation process that empowers younger generations from the inside out, and that inspires them to participate in creating a wildly better future. Disrupting modes of perception, relationship, and responsiveness by opening up the notions of the world we breathe, shape and create together.
I am looking for collaborations teachers, and universities, and schools who are open to explore other forms of knowledge and to investigate how they function, and how they fall into dysfunction.
Katrien led breathing meditations for thirty students in our bachelor course on Daoist and Chan / Zen Buddhist philosophy. Her methodology brought depth and...life! to our course. Concepts that students learned to work with became part of their experience. Katrien's methodology contributed to the learning process, but also brought personal depth. For many students, our course was an eye-opener. This was not only because of the material, but certainly also because of the sessions with Katrien.
Prof. dr. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth - Universiteit Utrecht
Other
intelligence
is needed
What I offer
I facilitate and develop explorative and experiential learning journeys with science based conscious breathwork to open and expand life in a natural way where people can experience a shift in their perceptions of reality. Through this we can catalyze new ways of seeing and learning how to learn that will develop a new set of shared values and capacities adequate to the needs of our time. It can be a place where new possibilities for living and being open up. This is where I also wish to co-generate new practices through theory, conversations, art and ideas. I am energized to bring experiments, practices, and creations to life that will come forth from this new endeavor.
