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The night side

Sleep As
Foundation™

Sleep is the foundation for everything you do. Half of us sleep badly, and almost nobody is taught what actually fixes it.

Online Workshop or course Danish or English
Get in touch A conversation first. A proposal after.
Night-side image: dark, calm, human – not a stock bed
The morning after

We all know what a bad night feels like. Now imagine half of your employees.

It does not show up as tiredness. It shows up in the 9am meeting: less patience, a heavier decision, a sharper tone – before anything has been decided.Ohayon 2002 · Danish National Health Profile

The meeting

Half the room is present. The other half is waiting for the coffee to work.

The decision

It gets postponed, or forced through. Rarely thought through.

The explanation

“I am not disciplined enough.” It is not discipline. It is an energy deficit.

Sleep is not rest. It is what your brain runs on the next day.

Sleep is the biggest lever you have on your own health.

Not one factor among many – the biggest one.

When it isn't there, neither are you
Not everyone gets to sleep well, no matter what's on fire
Nobody is served by running on empty indefinitely
A calm, human portrait – not a stock bed
What it is

The full course: four live sessions over four weeks, plus materials and tools in between.

A shared language for sleep and function at work – delivered on your own platform, Teams, Zoom or Meet, on site if you prefer. Just want a single workshop or talk first? That works too.

1 Week 1 · 45 min Your brain is washed at night The three biological systems behind sleep, the Sleep Window Model™ in five minutes, and a live 4:8 breathing exercise.
2 Week 2 · 30 min Good sleep starts when you wake up Structure. Morning light as the strongest regulator, caffeine, alcohol and sleep pressure. Timing beats willpower.
3 Week 3 · 30 min What gets in the way of your sleep Surroundings. Light, temperature, noise, melatonin and sleeping pills. They decide whether the system can switch off.
4 Week 4 · 45 min Your nervous system opens for sleep Tools, plus Q&A. The nervous system is plastic. Live 4:8 and 4:4:4 exercises, then everything pulled together.
Not ready for the full course? A single workshop or talk 60–75 minutes. For a whole organisation or department.
from 8,900 DKK
What it costs you

One price, everything included. Just show up, we handle the rest.

Full communication pack Invitation, reminders, intranet text and slides – written and ready to send. You forward it.
Runs on your platform It runs on your Teams, Zoom or Meet. Nothing to buy, install or administer.
Just send the invitations The personal programme is anonymous opt-in. You never handle who joined and who did not.

One meeting to clarify, one approval, and four dates in the calendar. That is your workload.

What each participant gets

Four things that follow them home.

Daily exercises

Video and audio, short enough to actually be done.

Your Sleep Guide

A PDF with the full course and concrete daily steps.

The knowledge library

Access to the knowledge library for the whole period.

A personal sleep experiment

One change, tested on themselves, over four weeks.

And a communication pack for HR – everything needed to announce it internally, written and ready.

Optional add-on

The personal sleep programme

For employees with bad sleep: a 28-day individual programme for the people who want to go further. Voluntary, outside working hours, and anonymous – you buy a number of licences, employees sign up themselves.

28days, one step at a time One change, tested on themselves, every week – over four weeks. +2.25points on a 10-point morning energy scale, in 28 days Morning energy 4.6 → 6.8, in 28 days. (n=9, Beta 2, Nov–Dec 2025)
Why it pays

This isn't a niche problem anymore.

Under seven hours of sleep triples the rate of illness. Danish knowledge workers under high deadline pressure already sleep fewer hours, and markedly worse.

~50% Had sleep problems recently Of the adult population, within the past two weeks. Danish National Health Profile 2025
14.2% Have serious sleep problems Already in your organisation, whether you see it or not. Danish National Health Profile 2025
27% vs 16% Annual turnover Among employees who sleep badly, versus those who sleep well. Gallup, State of Sleep in America 2022, n=27,000
Night-side full-bleed: dark, quiet, human – wide crop
How we work together

Three steps. No surprises.

01 Clarify

A meeting where we map the need, the audience and the practical frame.

02 Plan

The workshop or course is laid out and sent to you for approval before anything runs.

03 Deliver

The workshop, or all four sessions, on your own platform – or on site, if you prefer.

Pricing
from 8,900 DKK for a single workshop or talk – the easy way to try it.
Ready for the full course? All four sessions, materials, communication pack and personal licences, from DKK 37,500.
Get in touch A conversation first. A proposal after.
What they say
Portrait of Mette Klein, round crop

“You were – again – absolutely outstanding. Our colleagues are very data-driven, so it matters that you bring evidence and the reasoning behind it.”

Mette Klein, HR- & Kommunikationschef, LE34 A/S
Measured effect

This is what it actually did at LE34.

6.3 → 7.7 Morning energy, in four weeks.
83% Adopted at least one change.
100% Would recommend it.
LE34 A/S, n=18
Before you ask

Questions people ask.

Is sleep too private a subject for a work course? The shared sessions stay on biology and practical steps – nobody reports on their own sleep. The personal course is an anonymous opt-in, outside working hours.
Do people have to change their whole life? No. Each participant runs one experiment over four weeks. Timing and surroundings do most of the work, not discipline.
How much time does it cost us? Two hours and thirty minutes of shared time across four weeks, in working hours. Everything else is individual and voluntary.
What if our people already sleep fine? Then the course is cheap insurance and a shared language. The measurement before and after will tell you either way.

Sleep builds the capacity. The working day draws on it.

If the day side is where your problem shows, that is Capacity Under Pressure™ – and the two work best together.

Get in touch A conversation first. A proposal after.
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The night side

Sleep As
Foundation™

Sleep is the foundation for everything you do. Half of us sleep badly, and almost nobody is taught what actually fixes it.

Online Workshop or course Danish or English
Get in touch A conversation first. A proposal after.
Night-side image: dark, calm, human – not a stock bed
The morning after

We all know what a bad night feels like. Now imagine half of your employees.

It does not show up as tiredness. It shows up in the 9am meeting: less patience, a heavier decision, a sharper tone – before anything has been decided.Ohayon 2002 · Danish National Health Profile

The meeting

Half the room is present. The other half is waiting for the coffee to work.

The decision

It gets postponed, or forced through. Rarely thought through.

The explanation

“I am not disciplined enough.” It is not discipline. It is an energy deficit.

Sleep is not rest. It is what your brain runs on the next day.

Sleep is the biggest lever you have on your own health.

Not one factor among many – the biggest one.

When it isn't there, neither are you
Not everyone gets to sleep well, no matter what's on fire
Nobody is served by running on empty indefinitely
A calm, human portrait – not a stock bed
What it is

The full course: four live sessions over four weeks, plus materials and tools in between.

A shared language for sleep and function at work – delivered on your own platform, Teams, Zoom or Meet, on site if you prefer. Just want a single workshop or talk first? That works too.

1
Week 1 · 45 min Your brain is washed at night The three biological systems behind sleep, the Sleep Window Model™ in five minutes, and a live 4:8 breathing exercise.
2
Week 2 · 30 min Good sleep starts when you wake up Structure. Morning light as the strongest regulator, caffeine, alcohol and sleep pressure. Timing beats willpower.
3
Week 3 · 30 min What gets in the way of your sleep Surroundings. Light, temperature, noise, melatonin and sleeping pills. They decide whether the system can switch off.
4
Week 4 · 45 min Your nervous system opens for sleep Tools, plus Q&A. The nervous system is plastic. Live 4:8 and 4:4:4 exercises, then everything pulled together.
Not ready for the full course? A single workshop or talk 60–75 minutes. For a whole organisation or department.
from 8,900 DKK
What it costs you

One price, everything included. Just show up, we handle the rest.

The communication pack Invitation, reminders, intranet text and slides – written and ready to send. You forward it.
No new platform It runs on your Teams, Zoom or Meet. Nothing to buy, install or administer.
No sign-up lists The personal programme is anonymous opt-in. You never handle who joined and who did not.

One meeting to clarify, one approval, and four dates in the calendar. That is your workload.

What each participant gets

Four things that follow them home.

Daily exercises

Video and audio, short enough to actually be done.

Your Sleep Guide

A PDF with the full course and concrete daily steps.

The knowledge library

Access to the knowledge library for the whole period.

A personal sleep experiment

One change, tested on themselves, over four weeks.

And a communication pack for HR – everything needed to announce it internally, written and ready.

Optional add-on

The personal sleep programme

For employees with bad sleep: a 28-day individual programme for the people who want to go further. Voluntary, outside working hours, and anonymous – you buy a number of licences, employees sign up themselves.

28days, one step at a time One change, tested on themselves, every week – over four weeks. +2.25points on a 10-point morning energy scale, in 28 days Morning energy 4.6 → 6.8, in 28 days. (n=9, Beta 2, Nov–Dec 2025)
Why it pays

This isn't a niche problem anymore.

Under seven hours of sleep triples the rate of illness. Danish knowledge workers under high deadline pressure already sleep fewer hours, and markedly worse.

~50% Had sleep problems recently Of the adult population, within the past two weeks. Danish National Health Profile 2025
14.2% Have serious sleep problems Already in your organisation, whether you see it or not. Danish National Health Profile 2025
27% vs 16% Annual turnover Among employees who sleep badly, versus those who sleep well. Gallup, State of Sleep in America 2022, n=27,000
Night-side full-bleed: dark, quiet, human – wide crop
How we work together

Three steps. No surprises.

01 Clarify

A meeting where we map the need, the audience and the practical frame.

02 Plan

The workshop or course is laid out and sent to you for approval before anything runs.

03 Deliver

The workshop, or all four sessions, on your own platform – or on site, if you prefer.

Pricing
from 8,900 DKK for a single workshop or talk – the easy way to try it.
Ready for the full course? All four sessions, materials, communication pack and personal licences, from DKK 37,500.
Get in touch A conversation first. A proposal after.
What they say
Portrait of Mette Klein, round crop

“You were – again – absolutely outstanding. Our colleagues are very data-driven, so it matters that you bring evidence and the reasoning behind it.”

Mette Klein, HR- & Kommunikationschef, LE34 A/S
Measured effect

This is what it actually did at LE34.

6.3 → 7.7 Morning energy, in four weeks.
83% Adopted at least one change.
100% Would recommend it.
LE34 A/S, n=18
Before you ask

Questions people ask.

Is sleep too private a subject for a work course? The shared sessions stay on biology and practical steps – nobody reports on their own sleep. The personal course is an anonymous opt-in, outside working hours.
Do people have to change their whole life? No. Each participant runs one experiment over four weeks. Timing and surroundings do most of the work, not discipline.
How much time does it cost us? Two hours and thirty minutes of shared time across four weeks, in working hours. Everything else is individual and voluntary.
What if our people already sleep fine? Then the course is cheap insurance and a shared language. The measurement before and after will tell you either way.

Sleep builds the capacity. The working day draws on it.

If the day side is where your problem shows, that is Capacity Under Pressure™ – and the two work best together.

Get in touch A conversation first. A proposal after.
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