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A two-day, highly private, 1:1 intensive to restore deeper forces that are shaping your identity, values, beliefs, and your reality. A tailored program to re-invent yourself, and reimagine how you want to live and relate in the world.
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WHY? ​​​​
In today’s fast-paced world, we can find ourselves at a crossroad, navigating transitions, seeking connection and clarity, and yearning for alignment between our inner values and external actions. We need time to take a step back and cut through distractions - not a retreat from life, but return to it.
This immersive personalized program offers a dynamic space and time to pause and breathe, and rediscover your compass, and align yourself with a deeper sense of presence, direction, purpose, and meaning. The work will open the inner dimensions of change and healing through which you can shape perception, decision-making, and reinforce meaningful action. It has shown to offer a reset; a possibility to re-invent yourself, and to re-imagine how you want to live and lead.
This unique experience that is combining breathwork with exploratory practices, inquiry and sensemaking, will take you on a personal and collective journey into the deep code of culture as you explore the deepest parts of yourself. As you expand your relationship to your mind and body, you’ll find new ways to make sense of who you are, where you are, and what you are here to do.
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If this resonates, let’s talk. Book a call
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About Katrien
I don’t believe life was meant to be mediocre, nor to be a copy-paste of someone else’s path. It is meant to be exceptional, and introduce new perspectives, awaken curiosity and courage, and foster meaningful change. Clients often find me in times of transition, and are drawn to a highly private space where what’s ready to shift can be met with care, clarity, and depth.
I help people open from a deeper place within, so they can discover the real value they can bring to the world. My strength is navigating complexity. I see through human, systemic, and relational patterns with clarity, and combine intuition, professional insight, and intellectual rigor to reveal what often goes unseen. I help untangle deep dynamics and open space for a wider and wiser perspective. One that emerges not just from the mind, but through a lived experience, and what’s ready to unfold.
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START YOUR JOURNEY
Everything is just a small part of what is possible.
Step 1
INTAKE
In a 30 minute intake call, we will investigate if we are a good fit, and the process can truly serve you.
Step 2
PREPARATION
Before the two-day intensive, you will complete an intake form. We’ll review it together to create a personalized starting point. You’ll also receive preparation materials by email to help you begin well.
Step 3
THE WORK
With honesty and depth, we will work at the core of complexity, through theory, practice, and four guided breathwork journeys. This
process allows visions and insights to emerge that can shift your identity, history, and lived reality with internal alignment.
Step 4
INTEGRATION
True transformation takes time, and integration is an important part, also during the two-days. After the Intensive, we will have two integration session calls
You will have the option to continue working together to reinforce and build on your insights and change.
Why The Great Pause?
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20+ years of experience exploring human complexity, integrating psychology, biology, cognition, anthropology, art, with breathwork. → I understand your world.
Accredited counselor with psychoanalytic rigor, breathwork practitioner, educator, facilitator, researcher. → I bring depth, structure and understanding to the process.
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This is a one-on-one deep dive process. → A tailored, immersive experience. ​​​​​
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Breathwork​​
Breathwork is an integral part of my work. You will be offered four carefully curated connected breathwork journeys, which is a type of breathing that Open Up academically researched with the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Our results indicate that breathwork induces non-ordinary states of consciousness that are similar to psychedelics. The subjective experiences during breathwork in our study were similar to the experiences after medium to high doses of psilocybin. Read here the Open Up academic breathwork research which was published in 2023.
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I've personally been blown away by the power of this practice and received my first 1:1 ceremony in 2004. It is an extraordinary self-healing technique and an effective tool to balance the body, restore the nervous system, and open a new relationship with emotional blockages, stress, tension and trauma, as well as your deeper truths and inner freedom. Through a conscious connected, and natural movement of your breathing, we will nourish what is opening up and attentively feel in what is presenting itself and what wants to balance itself, honoring the full range of human experience. Most often what was unexpressed and held in the body can come into conscious awareness, where you can face it with wisdom. Hidden aspects of self, both positive and negative can be revealed and give acces to discover new insights. ​It can be profound healing experience; a total reset for the bodymind with possibilities for composting new realities, which we will bring care to. ​
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INVESTMENT
Non-residential / Amsterdam
EUR 3000
(excl. 21% tax)
Step 1: Complimentary Intake
To ensure alignment, the initial 30 minutes conversation is free of charge.
Step 2: Intake
A deeper assessment with a 45-minute debrief conversation.
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Step 3: The Work
Customized to your needs as a two-day intensive in Amsterdam from 09.30 - 17.00. Lunch costs are not included. Pricing is customized if a structured, long-term approach is requested, and/or if the work will take place at another location or outside of the Netherlands.
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Step 4: Integration
After the two-day intensive we will schedule 2 integration calls of 30 minutes to further explore what is needed. ​​
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I WORK WITH
CEOs, founders, executives, politicians, policymakers, academics, refugee youth, healthcare professionals, artists, celebrities, but also with young potentials who:​​
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Are ready to strengthen their presence and direction for the future.​
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Operate at the highest level and seek a trusted space to challenge their thinking and process, and gain clarity and impact beyond immediate challenges.
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THE GREAT PAUSE IS NEEDED​​​​
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NOW WE NEED HUMANS.
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We need more human-making processes that are not separate from the practice of evoking the spirit or essence of a phenomenon, place, animal or person. The individual is part of the collective and by living and bringing those worlds together, it allows for a deeper and new kind of anchoring of individual minds together, into a more collective identity, reality, and process.
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