wellbeing tools and concepts
Urban Healing makes use of key tools and concepts that form the basis of our work in the field of wellbeing at work. Please click on the headings for further information on these key tools and concepts:
wellness inventory
The Wellness Inventory is designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical and emotional wellbeing. It then offers you motivation, guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. It identifies areas of strength, the specific areas in which you are most motivated to change, and guides you in creating a wellness action plan based on personal motivations.
illness-wellness continuum
John W. Travis, MD, MPH also coined the ‘Illness-wellness’ Continuum that illustrates that there are many degrees of wellness, just as there are many degrees of illness. The Illness-Wellness Continuum illustrates the relationship of the treatment paradigm to the wellness paradigm.
iceberg model of health
The iceberg model of health shows how illness and health are only the tip of the iceberg. To understand their causes, you must look below the surface. Your current state of health, be it one of disease or vitality, is just like the tip of the iceberg. This is the apparent (visible) portion. If you don’t like your state, you can attempt to change it, do things to it, chisel away at an unwanted condition such as weight. But, like an iceberg, if you chip away a piece, another portion rises to the surface!
The Wellness Inventory, illness-wellness continuum and the iceberg model of health are all based on the work of wellness pioneer, John W. Travis, MD, MPH, who opened the first wellness centre in the world in 1975.
