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We offer curated Breathwork experiences and create foundations for embodied transformation and alive learning education. Join us to reconnect with life.

INDIVIDUAL

the individual as part of the collective

Individual

Sessions & Series

An individual session or series with Katrien deepens your self-understanding, no matter where you are on your path in life. Her intention is to work with the whole person and move to the source of what is most alive to come alive. She challenges and support your inner growth through the Cylce of Learning

6 months individual mentoring for

Young Change Makers

Each year, Katrien will guide and mentor a handful of young change makers who are living examples of our regenerative future. Our intention is to build a 'living" network of embodied co-creators. The leaders will become part of Open Up's Circle of Friends.

Listen

Sessions

Inquiry is one of the cornerstones of our practice at Open Up. It harnesses an intelligence which we combine with breath work and counseling. A transformative approach in self-exploration and deep listening, presence and healing.

COMMUNITAS

Praxix of learning and practicing

Events&

Engagements

We share our group-work internationally, and inspire humans to have courageous explorations, conversations and learnings in service our inner growth and healing. See events

Breathwork Group Series

The Breathwork Group Series is our flagship course of 5 weeks, created by Katrien Franken. Pre-covid the course sold out nine times and offers the groundwork for real transformation. Read more

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Open Up in Organisations

We inspire organizations, teams and leaders to benefit from the power of their own breath and access new insights, build connection and find new motivations for a wiser & weller culture.

PHILANTHROPIC - IMPACT

innovation for the world we create

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Breathwork

for refugees in Africa

We are developing inner work programs for refugees in Africa since 2020. The program focusses on empowering humans in places that are made ill. We steward through the salient, in uncharted territory, unfollowing epistemological authority, to build spaces for mutual learning experiences. A passion project for radical regeneration in a supported participatory space, making human possible.

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Scientific

Research

We are on the cusp of a new era of understanding breathwork as therapy. This is an Open Up initiative, aiming to bridge breathwork and psychotherapy as a new method for healing anxiety and depression. We work with team of researchers and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.