Wellness Inventory - Online Wellness program

Guide to the
Five Steps of Wellness


Wellness is much more than getting enough exercise, proper nutrition, or screening for health problems. It is an experience of aliveness that comes from your dynamic interaction between your inner and outer worlds.

The Wellness Inventory is a holistic assessment and life-balance program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing, while promoting your own personal growth.

The program enables you to assess yourself in 12 key dimensions of wellness and to discover the areas you are most highly motivated to change. The program then guides you in creating a personal wellness plan of 3-5 action steps using an approach of "small steps for continuous improvement". You receive a full year's access to tools and resources to support you in creating the desired changes in our life.

The program is based on the work of wellness pioneer, John W. Travis, MD, MPH. Recognized as a founder of the wellness movement, Dr. Travis opened the first wellness center in the U.S. in Mill Valley, California in 1975, creating the first edition of the Wellness Inventory assessment that same year. He is co-author of the classic Wellness Workbook (3rd Edition, Celestial Arts, 2004), the perfect support and companion to the online Wellness Inventory program.

Five Steps of the Wellness Inventory Program

Step 1 - Assessment: Complete a wellness assessment focusing on yourself as a whole person in 12 key dimensions of living. View More

Step 2 - Scores: Receive your personal Wellness and Satisfaction Scores for each of the 12 dimensions of wellness, as well as your overall scores. Discover your strengths as well as the areas of your life that you are most motivated to change. View More

Step 3 - Personal Wellness Action Plan: Create 3-5 simple wellness action steps in the areas you are most motivated to change. Your Personal Wellness Action Plan is based on a philosophy of taking small steps for continuous improvement. View More

Step 4 - Tools to Support Your Wellness Action Plan: Utilize a suite of tools, including email reminders, My Wellness Journal, the Self-Study Center, and the 12 Wellness Resource Centers, to help you successfully implement your wellness action steps. View More

Step 5 - Resources for Ongoing Wellness: Update your Personal Wellness Action Plan to reflect your successes and your current areas of lifestyle focus. After six months you are encouraged to retake the assessment to monitor your progress by a graphic comparison of the two results. Access to a Certified Wellness Inventory Coach is an optional, premium feature. View More


Confidentiality: Your confidential information from the assessment is securely stored. No information will be released without your prior approval. (Some of your data may be used internally to generate a data pool of norms—-anonymously, without any connection to your name or any identifying information).

Disclaimer: The Wellness Inventory does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace the services of a health professional. It is intended for educational purposes only. Please seek the advice of a licensed professional health care provider for any condition that may require medical or psychological attention.



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