<P> Between 1975 and 1979 he opened and ran the Wellness Resource Center in Mill Valley, California . He closed the Center in 1979 and established Wellness Associates, a non-profit educational corporation . </P> <P> In 2000, he moved to Australia, where he has continued to work in the field of adult and infant wellness . Between 2008 - 2016, he was an adjunct professor in the Wellness Program at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). He is also a member of the Advisory Board, Integrative Health Studies Masters Degree, at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco . </P> <P> Travis has cited Halbert L. Dunn's 1961 book, High - Level Wellness as one of the influences which led him to found the Wellness Resource Center . The Center focused on the individual's overall state of wellbeing and encouraged "self - directed approaches" to improving health . In 1975, he self - published the Wellness Inventory . This utilized a whole - person model, based on a "Wellness Energy System" that comprised 12 dimensions, incorporating nutrition, exercise, stress, and the social environment . He first wrote and self - published the Wellness Workbook in 1977 . This was later re-published in collaboration with Regina Ryan, and had sold 175,000 copies by 2005 . In 1979 he was interviewed by Dan Rather on 60 Minutes, which helped to bring the concept of wellness to national attention . </P> <P> The Illness - Wellness Continuum is a graphical illustration of a wellbeing concept first proposed by Travis in 1972 . It proposes that wellbeing includes mental and emotional health, as well as the presence or absence of illness . </P>

What was one of the early wellness models published