RECENT & UPCOMING
Events
Courses
Engagements
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THNK Executive Leadership Program
Ongoing since 28 April 2022
Our founder Katrien is part of the faculty of THNK School For Creative Leadership. She is designing and facilitating inner work and breathwork processes for the Executive Leadership Program to inspire leaders during the programs to find mentorship in the living-breathing-body's intelligence and intuition. To open to new places of power and responsivity. Katrien also is part of the coach team, guiding en mentoring executive leaders one-on-one.
Begins
31 August
2022
10th edition begins on Wednesday 31 August 2022
€ 345
Duration: 5 weeks
Location: Prinsengracht 493, Amsterdam
The Breathwork Group Series is a unique 5-week journey
and exploration of who you are created by Katrien Franken. This 10th edition is an exploration into Worlding the Now through Chaosmosis; an interplay between cosmic respiration (non-ordinary states of consciousness) and the integration of our disowned shadow parts. This series is an experiential group journey. We'll be opening to new realities in a multiplicity of each other's experience; each other's world as a representation of the external world we create.
The Breathwork Group Series takes place in a closed group. Please only attent if you can attend all five sessions, missing out maximum one session for the full journey. Limited to 25 people.
WORKSHOP
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Open Up at Soho House Amsterdam
10 August, 9 November 2022
Especially for Soho House Amsterdam, we offer monthly Open Up breathwork events for members. Our sessions are in constant reflection with the inner and outer world. We support humans to open up to the whole of their experience and find depth and meaning and joy in what is presenting itself. This in-person event is for Soho House members only.
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Katrien Franken will be hosting and developing a workshop for the ICPR 2022; The Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research. The leading scientific conference in Europe dedicated to advancing psychedelic research and therapies organized by OPEN Foundation since 2010.
Contemplative traditions commonly use breathing exercises as a means of cultivating altered states of consciousness in order to facilitate transformative experiences that deepen the connection between body and mind and help access healing. States which can resemble a psychedelic experience. With the rise of psychedelic therapy, many questions emerge regarding breathwork and how to apply it effectively within this context.
The workshop is open to all interested in learning about the topic and exploring the possibility for emotional breakthroughs and expanded states of consciousness through a conscious body-oriented process without taking any substance.
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Psilocybin Retreat - 28 Nov - 02 Dec 2022
Katrien Franken is part of the team of Awaken The Medicine Within since July 2022, and will be the lead Breathwork Facilitator on their Psilocybin Retreats in The Netherlands.
The retreats are designed for everybody, experienced or beginners and aimed to help you become a new kind of leader. It is created with input from psychedelic research and brings together cutting-edge concepts on leadership change while holding a deeply rooted ceremony & ritual informed by ancestral ways, with the use of psilocybin in a legal setting.
Selected
Past Events
The Breathwork Group Series
The Breathwork Group Series is a unique 5-week journey and exploration of who you are, created by Katrien Franken.
Series 1: 19.10 - 10.12.2017
Series 2: 05.01 - 02.02.2018
Series 3: 08.04 - 20.05.2018
Series 4: 02.09 - 30.09.2018
Series 5: 14.10 - 18.11.2018
Series 6: 09.09 - 09.03.2019
Series 7: 18.04 - 16.05.2019
Series 8: 04.09 - 02.10.2019
Series 9: 23.10 - 20.11.2019
Duration: 5 weeks | In-Person
Be The Earth Foundation (online)
1 April, 25 May 2022
We are inspired by Be the Earth Foundation, their vision and action. Katrien Franken is part of the Aura and Flow Fellowship, and will be offering individual tailored and collective guidance in breathwork and inner work.
WORKSHOP
Breathwork at Soho House Amsterdam
Wednesday 19 April | 1 June 2022
Especially for Soho House Amsterdam, we offer monthly Open Up breathwork events for members. Our sessions are in constant reflection with the inner and outer world. We support humans to open up to the whole of their experience and find depth and meaning and joy in what is presenting itself. This in-person event is for Soho House members only.
KINSHIP:
An exploration into being together
15 March - 5 May 2022
Open Up is partner of Advaya in the KINSHIP course,
curated by Hannah Close. A transformative online course, and exploration into being together. Lead facilitator of the inquiry sessions: Katrien Franken.
Read more: kinshipcourse.com.
Darkness Meditation at Soho House
19 Aug, 9 Dec 2020
28 July, 28 sept, 23 Nov 2021
This exceptional meditation of Open Up connects us with darkness as a practice to awaken, transform and heal. With facilitated preparation we will look into the blackness where without visual stimuli the mind and soul can wander. This process releases fear of the unknown, and invites us to look and listen into our own world and being. This in-person event is for Soho House members only.
Emergent Dialogue
October 2021 - April 2022
We are part of the co-facilitating team in Emergent Dialogue with Elizabeth Debold, Thomas Steininger, Pamela von Sjablar. An intense practice program that brings to life a Co-Conscious WE.
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