Understand your digital conditions. Choose your next improvement.
Move from a digital wellness concern to an achievable, accountable improvement — supported by relevant learning, EII Round, structured challenge through RoundTable, evidence, and reassessment.
Think Clinically. Act Critically. Decide Intelligently.
What the Navigator produces
The benefit is measured in concrete outputs. Whether health or enterprise performance improves is an outcome to investigate through reassessment, not a guarantee.
- •A clearer statement of the condition you are actually examining.
- •One useful starting action, bounded and kept long enough to observe.
- •Accountable ownership with the authority required to act.
- •Relevant EII University learning matched to the concern.
- •Professional challenge through EII Round and RoundTable.
- •A documented reassessment that compares what changed against a baseline.
Examine how digital participation supports your priorities, relationships, judgment, capabilities, purpose, and meaningful boundaries across work, home, learning, and community.
The ninth dimension, Digital Wellness, and this assessment method are EII's proposed research extension. The original eight dimensions are an established public-health model (SAMHSA). This pilot does not produce a validated score, diagnosis, credential, or approved standard.
EII's proposed ninth dimension — integrating a person's or an enterprise's digital practices across the other dimensions into a chosen, accountable improvement.
Individual connection
Integrate the person's digital practices across these connections into a chosen improvement.
Illustrative scenario
You have examined each dimension in pieces. The question now is which thread to pull first — and how to know whether the change actually helped.
Clinical Thinking prompts
- •Which single dimension, if improved, would ease the others?
- •What is one action small enough to keep and large enough to observe?
- •How will you reassess, and against what baseline?
CCF examination points
- Integration across dimensions
- Reassessment method
EII University learning
- Foundation: One achievable action
- Practitioner: Measurement selection and follow-up
EII Round next steps
- What is the one action, who owns it, and what will you compare at the review window?
The ninth dimension, Digital Wellness, and this assessment method are EII's proposed research extension. The original eight dimensions are an established public-health model (SAMHSA). This pilot does not produce a validated score, diagnosis, credential, or approved standard.
Source & rights
This EII resource is informed by the eight dimensions of wellness developed by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick and promoted through SAMHSA's Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Wellness (2016). EII's digital wellness pathways and enterprise application are independently authored, research-stage contributions. No endorsement by SAMHSA, HHS, or Dr. Swarbrick is implied.
The Navigator curriculum in EII University
The Navigator carries a member from the wheel into structured learning. Seven governed courses span both pathways across the six-level model, with a founder track that straddles individual and enterprise. Courses open for enrollment as the portfolio owner approves and publishes each one.
Discover Digital Wellness
The nine-dimension wheel, the SAMHSA foundation and EII's research extension, the two pathways, and what the Navigator does not produce.
Applied deliverable: A one-page orientation and a selected starting dimension.
Reading Digital Conditions
Condition, evidence and assumption; crosswalks to CCF domains; reading an individual and an enterprise pattern; and when 'unknown' is the honest answer.
Applied deliverable: A scoped concern statement for a Navigator case.
Individual Practice: One Achievable Improvement
From a personal concern to one action kept long enough to observe, with a review window, a measure, evidence you can gather, and reassessment.
Applied deliverable: A completed Individual Navigator case with one action and a reassessment plan.
Enterprise Practice: Conducting a Navigator Case
Establishing the enterprise context, owner and sponsor and decision authority, team findings with disclosure controls, proportionate interventions, and comparison over time.
Applied deliverable: A completed Enterprise Navigator case with an action register.
Commissioning Proportionate Digital Action
For leaders and founders — what assurance can and cannot establish, residual risk, decision rights, the founder's practice of straddling individual and enterprise, and Board communication.
Applied deliverable: An executive decision memorandum for a digital wellness action.
Enterprise Navigator Specialist
Advanced scoping across the nine dimensions, evidence sufficiency and conflicting evidence, confidence calibration, treatment validation, and reassessment method design.
Applied deliverable: A full Navigator assessment report with evidence register.
Teaching and Researching Digital Wellness
Teaching the nine-dimension model accurately, facilitating a Navigator case, research questions for the extension, contributing to the question bank under governance, and publishing without overclaiming.
Applied deliverable: An instructor-ready lesson and a research or standards contribution proposal.
The ninth dimension, Digital Wellness, and this assessment method are EII's proposed research extension. The original eight dimensions are an established public-health model (SAMHSA). This pilot does not produce a validated score, diagnosis, credential, or approved standard.
Open EII UniversityThis EII resource is informed by the eight dimensions of wellness developed by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick and promoted through SAMHSA's Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Wellness (2016). EII's digital wellness pathways and enterprise application are independently authored, research-stage contributions. No endorsement by SAMHSA, HHS, or Dr. Swarbrick is implied.
Example Navigator cases
Two fictional, illustrative cases that show what a completed Navigator case looks like — concern, dimensions, the three core questions, a sample action, and the evidence state. Simulated scenario — writes no telemetry, holds no live data.
Access & value
Explore — Public Teaser
Free
- •Interactive nine-segment wheel and both pathways
- •Illustrative examples across all nine dimensions
- •A short check-in with limited AI clarification
- •One suggested next action and a labeled sample report
Member Navigator — Included Benefit
Included for eligible members
- •Full Individual pathway with saved assessments and plans
- •Evidence references, progress history, and reassessment
- •Relevant EII University learning recommendations
- •Ordinary EII Round participation through the base benefit
Enterprise Navigator — Organization Add-on
Paid add-on (request quote)
- •Organization license with named-user capacity
- •Enterprise assessment cases with owners and evidence review
- •Team findings with disclosure controls and comparison over time
- •Organization workspace and optional facilitated-service requests
Navigator access does not unlock other separately licensed EII tools (e.g. Digital Anatomy Lab) or paid courses; those keep their own entitlements.
Frequently asked
What is Digital Wellness in this EII model?
EII's proposed ninth dimension: integrating a person's or an enterprise's digital practices across the other dimensions into a chosen, accountable improvement. It is a research extension of the established eight-dimension model, not a replacement.
How does it connect to the original eight dimensions?
The eight dimensions (Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, Intellectual, Environmental, Financial, Occupational) provide human-impact perspectives. Digital Wellness sits inside the same wheel as a full ninth segment.
How do Individual and Enterprise pathways differ?
Individual examines how digital participation supports a person's priorities, judgment, and boundaries. Enterprise examines the organization's ability to sustain its mission through dependable digital services and accountable governance. The two pathways keep separate records and access policies.
Can a founder use both pathways?
Yes. A founder may hold an individual plan and an authorized enterprise starting plan separately, without personal reflections becoming organization data.
What is available free?
A public interactive wheel, both pathways, illustrative examples, a short check-in with limited AI clarification, and one suggested next action — without an email requirement.
What does membership include?
Approved, active, eligible members receive the full Individual pathway, saved assessments and plans, evidence references, progress history, relevant learning, and reassessment, plus ordinary EII Round participation.
What requires an enterprise license or professional service?
Enterprise Navigator cases, team findings, facilitated EII Rounds, and RoundTable challenge support are separately licensed or scoped paid engagements.
Is ordinary EII Round already included?
Yes. EII Round is a base member benefit. The Navigator does not charge again for ordinary Round access; it carries an approved case into the existing Round workflow.
Can my employer see my personal reflections?
No. An individual record has an individual owner. There is no implicit enterprise access through employment or an organization seat. Sharing across scopes requires a narrow, explicit grant.
Is this a validated score, diagnosis, credential, or approved standard?
No. This pilot does not produce a composite wellness score, diagnosis, employee ranking, certification, or approved standard. New ninth-dimension content retains its actual research/content-review status.
Whose work is the eight-dimension wellness model?
The eight dimensions of wellness (Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, Intellectual, Environmental, Financial, Occupational) were developed by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick and are promoted through SAMHSA's Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Wellness (2016). EII credits that foundation. The ninth dimension, Digital Wellness, and this two-pathway assessment method are EII's independently authored, research-stage contributions.
Does EII claim SAMHSA, HHS, or Dr. Swarbrick endorsement?
No. No endorsement by SAMHSA, HHS, or Dr. Swarbrick is implied. EII's digital wellness pathways and enterprise application are independent contributions that build on the credited idea of the eight dimensions; EII does not reproduce the SAMHSA guide, convert its worksheets into EII forms, or rebrand its pages.
Why does EII link to the SAMHSA guide instead of bundling it?
SAMHSA's published reuse policy calls for specific written authorization for fee-based reproduction or distribution of its publications. EII therefore links to the official guide rather than bundling or selling copies, and uses only independently authored explanations, questions, exercises, scenarios, and visual designs.
Is Digital Wellness really a ninth dimension on equal footing?
Digital Wellness is EII's proposed extension, presented as an equal segment inside the Navigator wheel alongside the established eight dimensions. It retains its actual research and content-review status. It is not presented as an established or SAMHSA-recognized dimension.
Does the Navigator guarantee I will reduce burnout or improve performance?
No. The Navigator produces concrete outputs — a clearer condition statement, a useful starting action, accountable ownership, relevant learning, professional challenge, and documented reassessment. Whether health or enterprise-performance improves is an outcome to investigate through reassessment, not a guarantee.
Source & rights acknowledgment
This EII resource is informed by the eight dimensions of wellness developed by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick and promoted through SAMHSA's Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Wellness (2016). EII's digital wellness pathways and enterprise application are independently authored, research-stage contributions. No endorsement by SAMHSA, HHS, or Dr. Swarbrick is implied.
- SAMHSA — Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Wellness (2016)
Official source of the eight-dimension foundation. EII links to the guide; it does not reproduce or sell copies.
- SAMHSA — Reuse / reproduction policy (FAQs)
SAMHSA's policy calls for specific written authorization for fee-based reproduction or distribution of its publications. Attribution alone does not establish permission.
- Dr. Peggy Swarbrick — the eight wellness dimensions
Background on the original author of the eight-dimension model.
- U.S. Copyright Office — Circular 31: Copyright ideas vs. expression
EII draws on the idea of the eight dimensions independently; it does not copy the expression of the SAMHSA guide.
EII uses independently authored explanations, questions, exercises, scenarios, and visual designs. The Navigator wheel is original EII artwork. EII does not reproduce the SAMHSA guide, convert its worksheets into EII forms, or display SAMHSA/HHS seals or any presentation suggesting sponsorship.
Connected resources
The Navigator connects to EII University, the publication catalog, EII Round and RoundTable, and ARIA assistance. Two connected publications are in editorial review.
Digital Wellness: A Two-Pathway Approach
The credited foundation, the two-pathway approach, Clinical Thinking and CCF connections, original illustrative cases, and the reassessment method.
Proposed EII Practice Guide
A repeatable procedure, roles and decision authority, evidence review states, separate personal and enterprise records, and reassessment criteria.