Executive Function - the ability to use your capacity when it counts..
Built for people who already perform at a high level and want to understand what happens in body and brain when the pressure rises, and train a different response. This is not a stress management program. The program trains four things that show up in your work and competition.
Stop before you react.
IMPULSE CONTROL
Think clearly under pressure
COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY
Hold focus when it's noisy
ATTENTION
Tolerate discomfort without it running you.
EMOTIONAL REGULATION
Two sessions a week, plus daily practice in the app
Tuesday - online
Live session with Gabriella
One ACT skill is taught and practised technically. Repetition, the week's theme with metaphors, one central exercise and home practice until next time.
During the week · in the app
Daily breathing practice
A breathing exercise tied to the week's theme, for your own practice in the Hale app. The breathing anchor returns as the thread through the whole program.
Thursday · in the studio
Breathing session with Johnny
The week's ACT skill is taken into the body through breathing. A longer guided session at Hale Concept Studio with six participants at most, following the week's theme: regulation, opening, emotional space or challenge.
ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Training, trains psychological flexibility: the ability to stop, see thoughts as thoughts, meet discomfort without fighting it and act on what matters. Each week you learn one concrete ACT skill with Gabriella and practise it technically.
Breathing is what turns the skill into an experience. On Thursday Johnny takes the week's theme into the body. Depending on the theme that can mean regulation, opening up breathing capacity, creating emotional space or meeting something challenging with the breath as support. What you learned in your head on Tuesday, you feel in your body on Thursday.
There is a physiological basis too. Chronic overbreathing lowers carbon dioxide in the blood and impairs prefrontal function, which is exactly the executive capacity the program trains. The breathing work adjusts that foundation so the ACT work has better conditions to take hold.
As far as we know this is the first time ACT and breathing training have been woven together this way in one program. It is co-designed by Johnny Oduya, founder of Hale and CBBA Certified Breathing Behaviour Analyst, and Gabriella Svanberg, licensed psychologist and specialist in neuropsychology.
You leave with evidence, not just a feeling
Before the first week and after the last we do a private assessment of where you are. Three perspectives on the same person, so the change can be seen from more than one angle.
CAPNOGRAPHY
Capnography measures carbon dioxide in the exhaled air, breath by breath. It makes breathing behaviour visible: how you breathe at rest, under load and while recovering. We analyse the patterns at the start and then see how they have shifted after six weeks.
HRV
Nervous system recovery. Heart rate variability shows how the nervous system recovers and adapts to load. We measure before and after to see whether the body's ability to switch between activation and recovery has changed.
SELF ASSESSMENT
Your own baseline. A structured self assessment of how you function right now: clarity, focus, recovery, impulse control and how you handle pressure. The same questions after the program, so your own experience sits next to the physiology.
Two disciplines, one program
WHO LEADS IT?
Johnny Oduya
Breathing · Founder of Hale
CBBA, Certified Breathing Behaviour Analyst
Leads the breathing and the Thursday sessions in the studio. Developed the Hale concept and trained Hale's certified breath coaches. Responsible for the capnography and HRV assessments before and after the program.
Gabriella Svanberg
ACT · Licensed psychologist, specialist in neuropsychology
Leads the ACT work and the Tuesday sessions online. The training model is built on a program she developed that was tested and evaluated in a research project at the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care 2013 to 2015, with support for increased psychological flexibility and strengthened executive function.
Three ways to join
Group
24 000 SEK
The full program in a group of six at most
- 6 live sessions online with Gabriella
- 6 breathing sessions in the studio with Johnny
- Daily practice in the Hale app
- Private capnography and HRV assessment before and after
Group + Private ACT
32 000 SEK
Everything in Group
Two individual sessions with Gabriella
For you who want to connect the skills to a specific situation in your work or sport
Private Intensive
48 000SEK
The full program one to one
- Weekly private sessions with Gabriella and Johnny
- Structure and times adapted to your calendar
Starting November 4th