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GROUND UP ACADEMY:

4 WEEK TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM 

to see what happens in you under pressure and choose differently

No sports experience needed 

You set your limits 

Small group, max 6

 

 The 4 Week WINTER DISCIPLINE 4 WK Program
24TH NOVEMBER

Early Bird Discount Ends NOVEMBER 12TH

ONLINE ACADEMY

Format

  • Live 4 Week Program in Person
  • Starts November 24th
  • TUESDAYMORNING AND ONE MORNING IN THE WEEKENDS
  • Alibomaye Gym Elandstraat The Hague
  • Or online ACADEMY

Capacity

 ONLY 6 Spaces Available

 

Tickets

Early Bird Prices available until November 12th the price is 377 Euro's 

Build The Best Version Of You From The GROUND UP.

Real transformation doesn’t come from quick fixes. It comes from rebuilding your foundations. Your mindset, body, habits, confidence, relationships, and purpose.

GROUND UP is a transformational journey designed to help you break through the patterns holding you back, reconnect with who you’re capable of becoming, and build a stronger version of yourself from the inside out.

Through coaching, proven frameworks, practical action, accountability, and deep personal development, you’ll learn to take ownership of your life, create powerful new habits, strengthen your body and mind, and develop the discipline to become the person you know you’re meant to be.

This is where transformation begins, from the ground up.

WHO THIS IS FOR?

  • You know something’s off, but you keep going anyway.
  • You keep saying: after the holidays, when it’s quieter, next year…
  • You understand your pattern. Understanding hasn’t changed it.
• You hold a lot for other people and rarely put yourself down on the list.

• You perform under pressure but pay for it afterwards, in your sleep, your body, your temper.

Are you willing to look at yourself honestly, take responsibility and actually try something different? Then you’re in, even if you’ve been putting this off for years.

WHO THIS IS NOT FOR

Let's be honest up front, so you can choose well.

  • This is not for you if you want someone to fix you. We don't hand out answers. We create the conditions; you do the work.
  • This is not for you if you're looking for a workout, or an hour of rest to switch off. It's physical, but the body is the way in, not the goal.
  • This is not for you if you're not willing to look at your own part. Circumstances, other people and "later" are real  but here we look at what you do with them.
  • This is not the right place if you're in acute crisis right now. Then you first need other support. Get in touch and we'll gladly think along about what fits.

What we ask of you

  • Show up. in these sessions, as fully as you can.
  • Be honest. About how you're really doing  and about your limits.
  • Take responsibility. For your pattern, not just for your insight into it.
  • Try something different. Even when the old way feels safer.

Been putting this off for months, or years? That's not a reason to stay away. It may be exactly why you're here.

 

FOR TEAMS & ORGANISATIONS

Ground Up can also be tailored to teams and organisations.

For teams dealing with pressure, change, collaboration, leadership or vitality, we create customised programmes around the specific challenges within your organisation.

From a single high-impact session to a longer development programme, we combine mindset, nervous system regulation, movement and controlled pressure to make patterns visible and train new ways of responding.

Looking for something tailored to your team?
Explore our in-company programmes or tell us what your organisation needs.

Bring us your challenge. We build the training around it.

TELL US WHAT YOUR TEAM NEEDS
TEAMS & INCOMPANY

THE 4 WEEK PROGRAM

 

You notice tension building earlier · You set your boundary before it’s too late · You snap less quickly · You finally do the thing you’ve been postponing for months.

The challenge is real. So is the support.

  • No experience needed. Everything is taught from the very first movement. Groups are mixed on purpose.
  • You set your limits. Injury, fear, a bad day say it. We adjust. Nobody pushes through pain.
  • You always know what's coming. Contact is controlled, built up step by step and matched to the group.
  • Small group, real attention. Six people, two guides who see you.
  • And yes — there's laughter. Lightness is part of the work. You don't have to be serious to change.

GROUND UP takes you through a powerful 4-week transformation designed to rebuild the foundations of who you are and how you live.

Each week focuses on a specific layer of transformation, helping you reset your mindset, strengthen your body, rebuild your habits, and step into a higher standard of yourself.

Four weeks. Four stages. One complete journey

Here’s how we’ll build you from the ground up

WEEK 1 - SEEING WHATS THERE

• Session 1: Your baseline. What image do you carry of yourself, and where did you learn it? First work with breath as an instrument. Boxing fundamentals: stance, guard, first contact on the pads.
 
• Session 2: The first real pressure. What your nervous system does the moment things get uncomfortable and which pattern becomes visible in that moment.

WEEK 2 - BELIEFS UNDER PRESSURE

• Session 3: Digging out the belief underneath. Where did you learn this was true, and what is it still protecting?

• Session 4: Ground work. Control, surrender, nowhere to go. This is where "strength is not the absence of fear" stops being a sentence and becomes something your body knows.

WEEK 3 -  FROM REACTION TO CHOICE

• Session 5: Recovery under load. Not how to stay away from pressure, but how to come back inside it.

• Session 6: Controlled action absorbing and countering matched to the group

WEEK 4 - HOLDING IT

Session 7: Identity work. Who are you when you no longer need the pattern?

• Session 8: Closing. What you take with you, what you will protect, and how this group continues after week four.

THE FRAMEWORK

75-MINUTE SESSIONS DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN YOUR MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

Every GROUND UP session is intentionally structured to create real transformation — not just motivation that fades when the session ends.

Across 75 minutes, you’ll move through a powerful combination of mindset work, physical training, reflection and practical action designed to challenge you, strengthen you and help you build the habits required to become the person you want to be.

Each session gives you the tools, training and accountability to take what you learn beyond the room and apply it to your everyday life.

EVERY SESSION FOLLOWS THE SAME RHYTHM

STEP 01 — CHECK-IN

Arrive honestly.

Where are you today? What are you carrying into the room? We begin by identifying your current state so the session meets you where you actually are.

STEP 02 — MIND'S EYE

Change the story.

The thought work. Vision, belief, identity and the stories underneath your behaviour. This is where we uncover what is shaping the way you think, act and respond.

STEP 03 — BREATH

Regulate your state.

Breath used precisely as a tool to shift your nervous system, create awareness and prepare you to meet challenge with greater control.

STEP 04 — SOMATIC WORK

Put insight into the body.

Movement designed to turn awareness into experience. You don't just understand the lesson intellectually, you begin to embody it.

STEP 05 — UNDER PRESSURE

Meet yourself under pressure.

Boxing, game forms, controlled contact. Where the pattern shows itself.

STEP 06 — INTEGRATION

Take the transformation with you.

What became visible? What did you learn about yourself? What changes now? Every session ends with clear actions and practices to carry into the week ahead.

THIS IS MORE THAN TRAINING

Boxing and other martial arts forms are used as instruments for pressure, identity and transformation.

This is not a martial arts class. It is not a conventional workout.

It is a controlled environment designed to help you understand yourself, challenge your patterns and become stronger through experience.

No experience is required. Nothing is done to you that you have not agreed to.

You set the boundaries and we work within them.

01 ·TRAIN

Body Work and movement

Movement and mat work that makes your automatic response visible in real time. You don't read about your pattern, you feel it. The moment it runs.

02 · OBSERVE

Breath and systems

Not a breathwork class. One targeted practice for the exact moment the pattern wants to run. A regulation tool your body remembers when logic stops working.

03 · LISTEN

Mirror and teamwork

Your training partner sees what your team, partner, and children see. Pressure as mirror, not performance. The community is the method, training partners, not spectators.

04 · REMEMBER

Embodied choices

The work doesn't end with insight. You leave with one concrete commitment, spoken aloud to the group, with the body behind it. Pattern, then choice. Felt, not declared.

CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE 

 

There are two ways to enter GROUND UP 4 WEEK TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM.

Choose the experience that best fits your life, your environment and the level of immersion you’re ready for.

🥊 GROUND UP: IN PERSON

Early bird until November 12th €377

 After that €444

 

Get in the room and experience the complete GROUND UP methodology through live 75-minute sessions combining mindset, breathwork, somatic work and controlled physical training.

location: Alibomaye Gym The Hague

INCLUDES 

  • 4 weeks of GROUND UP
  • Live 75-minute sessions at the Gym Alibomaye Elandstraat The Hague
  • Mindset & identity work
  • Breathwork & nervous-system training
  • Somatic movement
  • Boxing, functional movement training
  • Weekly integration & action
  • Live coaching & accountability
  • Full Access to the Digital Program
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🌎 GROUND UP: ONLINE TRAINING

€197

 

Follow the GROUND UP framework from wherever you are. Build your mind, body and spirit through guided training, mindset work, breathwork and weekly challenges.

INCLUDES 

  • 4 weeks of GROUND UP online coaching
  • Guided online workshops
  • Mindset & identity training
  • Breathwork practices
  • Somatic movement
  • Weekly transformation challenges
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 Sign up before the 12th of november to get an exclusive one time discount.

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Real People, Real Results

What participants are saying

"I used to think everyone else had it figured out. Ground Up helped me realise I already had more strength and resilience than I gave myself credit for."

"For the first time in years, I felt confident speaking up and showing up—without doubting myself."

"Ground Up showed me that leadership starts with leading myself. I have far more influence over my reactions than I ever realised."

"For the first time in a long time, I stopped performing... and simply felt human." ❤️

"You saw potential in me long before I could see it in myself."

"One of the biggest shifts? I no longer feel the need to react immediately. I can pause, breathe and choose how I want to respond."

"Stop. Breathe. Choose. Those three words have changed the way I lead at work, communicate at home, and deal with pressure."

"I came here thinking boxing was about becoming tougher. Instead, I learned how to stay calm when life gets tough."

"The greatest lesson wasn't about performance. It was experiencing what becomes possible when people truly support each other."

"We didn't just complete a programme. We became a community that challenged, supported and inspired each other."

Vincent Krieger - ex pro basketballplayer, coach, workshopleader, videoproduction, motivational speaker

The Person Behind Ground Up

Maartje Drabbe

"How you do one thing is how you do everything."

After more than twenty-five years of working with people, teams, leaders and organisations, I have come to a conviction that challenges much of how we approach growth, performance and change.

Most people do not struggle because they lack knowledge.

Most teams do not struggle because they lack strategy.

Most leaders do not struggle because they lack intelligence.

Yet despite having access to more information than any generation before us, stress is rising, burnout is increasing, teams feel disconnected and many people feel further away from themselves than ever.

Why? 

Because information rarely changes behaviour.

Pressure reveals behaviour.

And what pressure reveals is often what has been shaping us all along.

Throughout my career I have worked with young people in crisis, professionals carrying immense responsibility, leadership teams navigating uncertainty and organisations trying to create meaningful change.

Across all of these environments I kept witnessing the same phenomenon:

People do not rise to their intentions.

They fall back on their patterns.

The way we communicate under pressure.

The way we lead under pressure.

The way we respond to conflict, uncertainty and change.

These patterns are often invisible until pressure makes them visible.

One principle has guided me for many years:

How you do one thing is how you do everything.

The way someone responds in a difficult conversation often mirrors how they respond in conflict at home.

The way a leader reacts when plans change often reflects how they approach uncertainty in other areas of life.

The way a team navigates pressure reveals far more than any mission statement ever will.

Pressure is not the problem.

Pressure is the revealer.

This insight became the foundation of Ground Up.

My work has taken me from therapy rooms to boardrooms, from behavioural science to leadership development, from martial arts to ancient wisdom traditions and indigenous teachings.

Different worlds.

The same lessons.

Self-awareness matters.

Presence matters.

Connection matters.

Responsibility matters.

And the ability to remain grounded under pressure may be one of the most important human skills of our time.

Across psychology, leadership, team development, martial arts and ancient wisdom traditions, I kept encountering the same truth:

Sustainable change happens when awareness becomes embodied.

Not when people simply understand something.

But when they experience themselves differently.

When a pattern becomes visible.

When a new choice becomes possible.

And when that choice is practised until it becomes part of who they are.

Ground Up exists because I believe authentic leadership, resilient teams and meaningful transformation begin there.

Not with more information.

Not with another model.

But with the courage to see ourselves clearly, especially when life becomes challenging.

My role is not to provide answers.

My role is to create the conditions in which people discover their own.

To help individuals, leaders and teams see more clearly, respond more consciously and build the resilience, vitality and awareness needed to thrive in an increasingly complex world.

Because lasting change happens when insight becomes experience.

And experience becomes embodied.

That is the work.

And that is Ground Up.

— Maartje Drabbe
Founder of Ground Up