BREATHWORK TOWARDS
WHOLE SYSTEMS CHANGE
INNER GROWTH EXPERIENCES • NON-ORDINARY EDUCATION • RESEARCH • ACTIVISM
Welcome,
Open Up is founded in 2015 as an invitation and activation of an experimental process that creates new openings, disrupting conventional modes of perception, and chart bold, ambitious futures together.
We are creating and facilitating deep exploratory journeys and transformative breathwork and inner growth experiences that invite us to find other ways of learning, seeing, doing, relating, sensing and responding to the chaos of our time.
Open Up is a gesturing towards the unseen, unsaid, and unfamiliar. We breathe-with the arts and mysteries of what it means to being alive in the world today, and how to evolve and thrive as humans in a more than human world.
Our work asks the questions: How can we open up in such a way, so we may improve our vital relationship with ourselves, others and the nature. And, how can the depth of experience and shared process become a center-piece in creating better moral futures?
In an Open Up based pedagogy, the longing is to bring more than just solutions, more than just a future, more than just breathing. We are interested in practicing openness to open to new places of power where there is joy in carrying the health and well-being of our interconnectedness. Join us in this activism of inquiry to unleash energy in bodies, in flows, in possibilities from experience to action.
A stunning invitation is in the air, urging us to rethink ourselves, our bodies, our ways of learning and our actions in the world to what mutually benefits us. The emergence of our time calls for an adventurous descend that leads us to interesting places. Our work is with the curious and non-ordinary that can shake the familiar. It is a research inquiry, engaging the vibrancy of the world; taking unconventional detours; moving from the raw unknowing of transformation to a place of rooted possibility. Can you take an instant to visualize this event?
Katrien Franken
Welcome! I'm a a multiple award-winning artist/photographer, and certified counselor, facilitator, educator, writer, activist, social entrepreneur, as well as founder of Open Up. My work is an expression of assembled studies, longings, learnings, failures, collaborations, experiments, and experience of twenty years at the edges of our evolutionary growth. I view my work as an act of journey.
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
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PHILANTHROPY
Open Up's impact initiatives are set out by Katrien Franken in 2020, and are deep offerings to whole systems change. A human investment in a future of inspiration and longevity, unlocking new opportunities for radical change and healing.
We are exploring how the conditions of transformation come together on the fringes of the culture. Our engagement is with deep inner practices, and journeys of coming alive to critical shifts in ways that allow ruptures to grow the new.
