The Wellness Inventory—A Whole-Person Wellness Program
Today, we have come full circle. E-health pioneer HealthWorld
Online (www.healthy.net) and Dr. Travis have collaborated
to create a greatly enhanced online version of the Wellness
Inventory to meet our society’s current wellness needs.
The Wellness Inventory is an interactive, whole-person
wellness program designed to help individuals gain personal
insight into their state of physical, emotional, and spiritual
wellness and to take more responsibility for their personal
health and wellness. The program revolves around assessment
in the 12 dimensions of wellness in Dr. Travis’ Wellness
Energy System (see diagram B). The assessment is educational
in nature and helps to create awareness of how one’s
lifestyle, attitudes and behavior influence one’s state of health
and well-being.
The program focuses on the areas of your life you are most
motivated to change (as revealed in the assessment) offering
guidance, tools and resources to transform this new awareness
into lasting changes in one’s life, including a renewed
sense of health and well-being. The Wellness Inventory may
be utilized directly by individuals at www.WellPeople.com and
may also be delivered in organizational settings.
12 Dimensions of Wellness—The Wellness Energy System
The Wellness Energy System, conceived by John W. Travis,
MD, MPH, represents a whole-person approach to wellness.
The system has twelve components.three are the major
sources of energy input: eating, breathing, and sensing;
and nine are forms of energy output: self-responsibility
and love, moving, feeling, communicating, thinking, intimacy and sex,
working and playing, finding meaning, and transcending.
A Flexible Wellness Solution
The Wellness Inventory offers maximum flexibility for implementation
in a wide range of settings, including corporate
wellness programs, hospitals, spas, health practitioners, life
coaches, government agencies, and churches. Reporting,
coaching and communication tools for licensing organizations
facilitate individual and group needs assessment,
one-on-one coaching, increased levels of participation in a
wellness program, and ongoing wellness education.
For health professionals, the Wellness Inventory is an
effective tool for “teaching their patients to be well” and
for laying the foundation for a broader wellness program
that integrates their own key areas of specialization. For life
coaches, it is an invaluable tool to help determine a clientfs
readiness or change and to aid in the coaching process to
keep them motivated to reach their goals. For spas, the
Wellness Inventory may be central to a year-round guest
engagement program.
For companies or organizations, the Wellness Inventory
may be utilized as the centerpiece of a custom wellness
solution. Optional wellness program components that may
be built around the Wellness Inventory include wellness
coaching, monthly workshops, wellness e-newsletters, and
specific modules such as resiliency training, nutrition, or a
walking program.
For a personal or organizational wellness initiative to
have its greatest chance of success in the 21st century, it
is important to have a strong focus on self-responsibility,
personal and collective readiness to change, and a personalized,
whole-person perspective.