RECENT & UPCOMING
Events
Courses
Engagements
Katrien Franken founded this non-profit initiative in 2020, to support the inner life of refugee youth as seeds for radical renewal. We successfully launched the first prototype in March 2021 in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, in Uganda, Africa.
This event is offered to share and collect wisdom and awareness from fellow pioneers, co-thinkers and co-creators in the field. To make-possible the continuation in Uganda, and begin our expansion in Tanzania.
Renerative Stewardship - Psilocybin Retreat
28 Nov-02 Dec 2022. (SOLD OUT)
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.
WORKSHOP
Open Up at Soho House
Monthly, Amsterdam
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.
THNK Executive Leadership Program
Faculty member Amsterdam
Katrien is part of the faculty of THNK School For Creative Leadership. She is designing and facilitating inner work and breathwork methodologies for THNK's Executive Leadership Program. In in-person and online workshops, she inspires leaders to find mentorship in the living-breathing-body's intelligence. To open to new places of power and responsivity. Katrien is part of the faculty, guiding and mentoring executive leaders one-on-one.
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Selected
Past Events
Breathwork as Psychedelic Therapy at Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research.
21 September 2022, Haarlem
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.
The Breathwork Group Series
In-person in Amsterdam
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
Series 10: 31.08 - 29.09. 2022
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, 10 August 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.
