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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 supports your inner growth through the Cycle of Learning

6 Months Mentoring for

Young Change makers

Each year, Katrien is guiding and mentoring 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.

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Listen

Sessions

Deep listening is one of the cornerstones of our practice at Open Up. A transformative approach in self-exploration and conscious form of inquiry and dialogue. It harnesses an intelligence to open and gather wisdom through the expansion of perception of the interrelationality of life.

COMMUNITAS

Praxix of learning and practicing

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Events &

Engagements

We offer curated Breathwork experiences and Open Up processes to inspire humans to have courageous explorations, conversations and learnings to expand consciousness in service of our individual and collective growth. We engage with-in purpose driven networks and communities who are Being the change.

The Breathwork

Group Series

The Breathwork Group Series is a continuation of our development, curiosity, learnings and longings which successfully sold out for 9 times. The Series is a five-week group journey which offers the groundwork for real transformation.

Whole

Organization

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

BREATHWORK

IN AFRICA

Open Up is 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. A non-profit project, founded by Katrien Franken.

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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 who volunteered to be part of this, and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

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