Katrien is part of the faculty of THNK - School For Creative Leadership in Amsterdam, guiding and mentoring executive leaders one-on-one. She will be guiding the THNK core team, founders and faculty into an experience in breathwork, introducing a proces powered by Open Up and the vision. 

Based on our scientific breathwork study, Katrien Franken is invited at Universiteit Utrecht as a guest teacher. She's taking part in an 8-week course, titled "Literature and Philosophy; Dao, Abhidharma, Zen", created and facilitated by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth. The course introduces students to the (inter)relations between philosophy and literature, and is taking them through different modalities of thinking, perceiving, and experiencing.

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Katrien will introduce breathwork, and her vision and mission for the future of eduction to 40 students. She proposes the question: What if breathing together can teach us to think differently about education, about ourselves (in the world), about the way we learn how to learn? What wants to become possible from this shared experience? Read more

In the week of August 28 to September 2023, 50 international researchers and experts from different disciplinary backgrounds (including academic, clinicians, and expert practitioners) came together to foster an exchange of idea sand best practices around the roles and functions of set and setting in psychedelic use. A group of 25 people will be experiencing a breathwork workshop as part of the program. 

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This private event is organised by:

• Joost Breeksema of OPEN Foundation

• Michiel van Elk (Leiden University)

• Gemma Blok (Open Universiteit)

• André van der Braak (Vrije Universiteit)

• Robert Schroevers (University Medical Center Groningen)

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Facilitator: Katrien Franken and assistants

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Katrien designed and facilitated a four hour breathwork ceremonie for Awaken The Medicine Within psilocybin retreat, hosted by Alexander Beiner and Natasja Pelgrom in The Netherlands. Breathwork in the Open Up approach is closely related to the experience in psilocybin. Read Open Up's scientific study here: www.openup.world/research

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Facilitator: Katrien Franken

Breathwork in an Open Up proces, facilitated for 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.

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Breathing exercises are used throughout centuries by ancient &native cultures as a means of cultivating expanded states of consciousness in order to facilitate transformative experiences that deepen connection and help access healing. States which can resemble a psychedelic experience. With the rise of psychedelic therapy, questions emerge regarding breathwork within this context for/as psychedelic therapy.

This workshop combines breathwork as a practice of self-exploration in non-ordinary states of consciousness in a psychological, sacred and ritualistic bedding. We invite psychiatrists, psychologists, healthcare organisations and professionals, breathwork or psychedelic researchers, therapists, and people who are interested in learning and exploring the topic and possibility for emotional breakthroughs and healing in non-ordinary states of consciousness without taking any substance.

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Facilitator/workshop design: Katrien Franken 

https://open-foundation.org/

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Breathwork for 25 executive world leaders in THNK"s Executive Leadership Program. Open Up was the first to introduce breathwork at THNK in 2019 guiding leaders in deep journeys into Self, other and the world. 

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Facilitator: Katrien Franken

The Breathwork Group Series is a unique five week journey and exploration of who you are, created by Katrien Franken. She has run 10 editions & versions of The Breathwork Group Series in person in groups of max 25 people.

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Series 1:   19.10.2017 - 10.12.2017​

Series 2:  05.01.2018 - 02.02.2018

Series 3:  08.04.2018 - 20.05.2018

Series 4:  02.09.2018 - 30.09.2018

Series 5:  14.10.2018 - 18.11.2018

Series 6:  09.09.2019 - 09.03.2019

Series 7:  18.04.2019 - 16.05.2019

Series 8:  04.09.2019 - 02.10.2019

Series 9:  23.10.2019 - 20.11.2019

Series 10: 31.08.2022 - 29.09. 2022

Duration: 5 weeks | In-Person

Facilitator & Host: Katrien Franken

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A breathwork session for the Aura and Flow Fellowship leaders at Be the Earth Foundation.

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Facilitator: Katrien Franken 

https://www.betheearth.foundation/flowfunding

Especially for Soho House Amsterdam, we offer monthly Open Up breathwork group workshops

 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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Community is the vessel, the social infrastructure of life, relationality is the alchemical catalyst, the yoke of togetherness, and belonging is the meaning and magic amidst it all.

Open Up is partner of Advaya in the KINSHIP course; a transformative form of relationship that perhaps offers an answer to the crisis of belonging, curated by Hannah Close. Katrien will join her voice with Hannah's and will be leading the facilitation of inquiry. We invite you to open up with us, to explore with us, to travel with us.

https://advaya.life/courses/kinship-2022

Katrien designed an exceptional meditation which connects us with darkness as a practice to awaken, transform and heal. With facilitated preparation Katrien will guide Soho House members to 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 is an in-person event for Soho House members only.

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Emergent Dialogue is developed by Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger. An intense practice program for inter-being. Katrien advised and helped them in the facilitation.

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Co-facilitator: Katrien Franken

https://www.evolve-world.org/module-overview

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From Whole Person to Whole Organization. Katrien will lead the directors team of Nike Europe into a process around values and choices in an encounter with the shadow. In a mix of psychological practices and breathwork, we will explore the make up of their values, and work on what is needed to live more authentically and fully. 

Open Up offers breathwork workshops for

Elsevier teams and employees in person, in Amsterdam. Elsevier provides information and analytics that help institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance. Katrien will facilitate different groups of 20-30 people into an Open Up breathwork and inner work process, fostering a deeper care for everyone's inner Life.

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Lead facilitator: Katrien Franken

https://www.elsevier.com/

Open Foundation is advancing psychedelic research and therapies to benefit science, healthcare, and society since 2007. Open Up is Gold Sponsor the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research 2020. Katrien Franken is speaker and will be facilitating 3 breathwork workshops online, due to Covid-19.

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https://open-foundation.org/

New Womanhood created by Katrien Franken explores women (and men) and support(ed) networks to have courages conversations, explorations and learnings in service of our collective growth. Facing and embracing and living our truth and acknowledging and integrating our blind spots. This gathering is for the rebel woman who wants to light the spark of what it might look like to create a new culture around womanhood. We are calling it "New Womanhood".

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Facilitator & Host: Katrien Franken