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The model

The eight dimensions have a history.

In 1976, Bill Hettler and the National Wellness Institute described six dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, occupational and spiritual. Six, not eight. For the next thirty years, that six-dimension model remained the complete list.

The two additional dimensions were added in 2006 by Peggy Swarbrick, in a paper published in a journal of psychiatric rehabilitation: financial and environmental. The context matters. In work with people recovering from a mental health crisis, money and a stable place to live are difficult to treat as background conditions; they shape what recovery is possible. A dimension that is not named is easy to leave out of a programme. The eight-dimension model was later adopted by SAMHSA, the US agency for mental health and substance use, and it has been the reference point ever since.

Armonime works from that eight-dimension model because it makes room for parts of wellbeing that cannot be addressed through mindset alone. Bills still have to be paid, and the room you sleep in still affects the day you wake into. Financial and environmental wellbeing deserve the same attention as the dimensions that are easier to discuss.

The parts of life that are hardest to ask about are often the easiest to overlook.

What follows from that

That shapes one of our working rules: every dimension gets the same space and the same level of care. Financial and environmental get as much room as physical rather than being added as an afterthought. None of the eight is treated as an appendix to the rest.

The two of us

The founders

Patrycja

CEO & Co-founder

Patrycja is a co-founder of Armonime and its CEO. She designs the system the rest of the work runs on: the eight-dimension model, the path each dimension takes from research to exercise to product, and the structure of the site itself. She writes the content for all eight dimensions and holds every sentence to a real study, cutting whatever only sounds good. She sets the strategy: how the workbooks build on one another, how the offer for companies is priced and positioned. And she optimises without mercy, from the wording of a single line to how the whole thing loads on a phone. She would rather ship one thing that is right than ten that are merely finished.

Klaudia

CFO & Co-founder

Klaudia is the co-founder and CFO of Armonime. She runs three areas of the company at once: administration, design, and social media. She manages finance and accounting, making sure the creative side of the project is backed by a well-structured business. She designs workbook layouts and visual templates that the brand is built on. She plans the Instagram content calendar, writes every post, and creates carousels and reels that grow the account. She combines creativity with a business mindset: making sure things don’t just look good, but have a purpose. She organizes, simplifies, and turns ideas into concrete tools. She would rather build one solution that actually works than ten that only sound good—and she would rather cross out an unsupported claim than make one up.

What we make

Four things, for now.

Chapters

Eight chapters, one for each dimension, free to read here. Each brings together the research, practical exercises and a full list of sources.

Quiz

A short assessment that highlights two dimensions: the one currently supporting you most, and the one that may need more attention. The aim is to give you a realistic place to start instead of treating all eight as problems to solve at once.

Workbooks

Thirty days of guided practice focused on one dimension. One manageable exercise a day, each grounded in research rather than generic advice.

For companies

Workshops, recurring programmes and licences for organisations that want to work with the full eight-dimension model rather than a single wellbeing topic.

This is the project as it exists today, not a finished roadmap. More workbooks are in development, the foundation still needs the right person to lead it, and the list will grow as the work is ready. We prefer to publish what exists rather than announce what might.

We take our time because the quality of the work matters more to us than the speed of the announcement.

Want to join us?

Eight dimensions are too many for two people.

Patrycja and Klaudia, the Armonime co-founders

There are only two of us, and the scope is already larger than two people can sensibly cover. If you have expertise you would like to contribute, professional experience in one of these areas, or the ability to write something we cannot write well ourselves, we would like to hear from you.

We are particularly interested in a facilitator to lead workshops and live sessions; a developer who can take this prototype to production; a designer with a feel for serif typography and considered digital experiences; and someone who wants to help us build the foundation behind Armonime.

A word on the foundation. We want part of what Armonime creates to reach people and organisations that cannot pay for it: educational material, courses and training for individuals and places with no wellbeing budget, including work alongside other foundations. We do not want a foundation for appearances. We want one that does useful work, and we will register it when someone is ready to take responsibility for building and running it.