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Two-day 1:1 immersion with Katrien Franken

The Great Pause is a two-day individual immersion for leaders to re-align and reconnect with purpose and meaning in an impactful way. A structured reset - focused and essential for strategic clarity, embodied presence and relaxed confidence.

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. I believe that the biggest leverage for responsive and life supporting human systems lies in addressing how we choose to move in the face of uncertainty and challenges.

This immersive personalized program offers a dynamic space and time to engage with what's seeking your attention for inner growth and healing. To pause and cut through distraction, and reflect, realign, and rediscover your inner clarity.

Guided with precision and compassion, this unique experience has shown to be a reset. It combines science-based breathwork with neuroscience, exploratory and contemplative practices, movement, and sense-making. It is meant to take you on a deeper personal and collective journey into the deep code of culture as you explore the deepest parts of yourself. As you expand your awareness and update your reality, you’ll find new ways to make sense of your unique gifts, and how to bring them into the world.

If this resonates, let’s talk. Book a call

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.

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 & wiser perspective. 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.

START YOUR JOURNEY

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 Great Pause, 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.

BOOK A FREE INTAKE

The Great Pause is non-residential and takes place in Amsterdam and is offered on request elsewhere, also outside of The Netherlands

Why The Great Pause?

20+ years of experience exploring human complexity, integrating psychology, philosophy, art, science, contemplative practice, and breathwork practice with 10+ years of facilitation. → I understand your world.

Accredited counselor with psychoanalytic rigor, breathwork practitioner, educator, facilitator, researcher. → I bring depth, structure and understanding to the process.

This is a one-on-one deep dive process. → A tailored, immersive experience.

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 I've academically researched together with a group of researchers and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Read our study results, which were published in 2023.

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.

INVESTMENT

Step 1: Complimentary Intake

To ensure alignment, the initial 30 minutes conversation is free of charge.

Step 2: Intake

A deeper assessment with a 30-minute debrief conversation.

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.

Step 4: Integration

After the two-day intensive we will schedule 2 integration calls of 30 minutes to further explore what is needed.

Starting from

EUR 3000

Excl. 21% VAT

I WORK WITH

CEOs, founders, executives, politicians, academics, scientists, healthcare professionals, policymakers, refugee youth, healthcare, artists, celebrities, and also with young potentials who:

Are ready to strengthen their presence and direction for the future.
Operate at the highest level and seek a trusted space to challenge their thinking and process, and gain clarity and impact beyond immediate challenges.

BOOK A FREE INTAKE

THE GREAT PAUSE IS NEEDED

NOW WE NEED HUMANS.

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 an reality, and process.

START YOUR JOURNEY

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 Great Pause, 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.

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