Wellspring Integrative Framework, Living Indexes, & Companion Tools
Religious and spiritual lives can nourish health and flourishing, contribute to harm, or do both. Wellspring connects questions about what people believe and understand (Head), feel and experience (Heart), express and enact (Hands), and navigate within and around their bodies, relationships, institutions, and communities (Habitat). All resources distinguish conceptual proposals from empirical validation and state anti-coercion safeguards.
Choose Your Starting Path
- • New to Wellspring (5 min): Open the or explore .
- • Scholars & Grant Teams: Read the General Edition (v1.5.2) and search the Measures & Research Indexes below.
- • Public Health & Civic Leaders: Start with the SDOH Edition (v1.5.2-SDOH) and the 5 Healthy People 2030 pathways.
- • Commanders, Executives, & Chaplains: Use the Organizations & Military Edition (v1.5.2-OM) with MRE 503 & SEAD 4 safeguards.
Multilevel Architecture, 4H Perspectives, & Relationship Inspector
Explore how Head, Heart, Hands, and Habitat operate across five focal units and three coordinated editions. Organization (integration, congruence, synchrony, resonance) is always examined separately from health and flourishing consequences.
1. Select Focal Unit (Boundary of "Within" vs. "Around" Shifts with Your Question)
Active: Individual Person2. The Four "H" Perspectives & Interactive Diagram
Click any node to inspectHealthy People 2030 · SDOH Intersection Explorer
Worship is a setting; R/S crosses all 5Multivalent Consequence Profile & Applied Practice Scenarios
Because high coordination or agreement inside a group can coexist with coercion or harm to minorities or outsiders, Wellspring maps consequences across eight valued life domains and four stakeholder groups rather than computing a single composite number.
Reflective Practice Reminders (User-Selected Checklist, Not a Score)
Interactive Consequence Profile Matrix
Click any cell to cycle valence: Nourishing → Mixed → Undermining → Uncertain → Unobserved
| Valued Life Domain | Participants Now | Subgroups / Minorities | Outsiders / Neighbors | Later Generations |
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Ten Canonical Illustrations, Figure Numbering Crosswalk, & Screen-Reader Descriptions
The canonical figure package establishes the ten-figure canonical sequence across all three Framework editions: six main-text teaching figures (1, 2, 3, 3B, 4, 5) and four technical appendix figures (A1, A2, A3, A4). Every figure preserves full screen-reader alternative text (83–172 words) alongside edition-specific captions.
Your Rights, Anti-Coercion Safeguards, & Easy-Read Guide (Version 1.5.2)
Developed and stress-tested against 700 AI-simulated reviewer and misuse-actor personas (November 11, 2026) to protect patients, workers, students, service members, incarcerated people, and community members against institutional, clinical, or algorithmic misuse.
Eight Mandatory Ethical Safeguards Across All Wellspring Editions
The Wellspring Guide to Faith, Meaning, and Health (Version 1.5.2)
Page 1: What Is the Wellspring Framework?
Many people have beliefs, traditions, or deep values that matter to them. Some people are religious or spiritual. Some people are not religious and find meaning in nature, family, ethics, or community. Both paths deserve respect. This guide explains how a person?s beliefs, feelings, daily actions, and living conditions work together to shape health and well-being.
The Four ?H? Parts of Daily Life
- 1. Head (What You Believe and Understand): Your ideas about life, meaning, values, or God, and how you make sense of good times and hard times.
- 2. Heart (What You Feel and Experience): What feels sacred, comforting, or deeply important to you—feeling safe, loved, full of awe, or at peace, or feeling hurt, lonely, or in doubt.
- 3. Hands (What You Do and Practice): Your daily actions and habits, such as prayer, meditation, singing, helping neighbors, resting, or keeping traditions. In many traditions, doing these practices comes first and helps shape what you think and feel.
- 4. Habitat (The Body and World Around You):
- Your body: Your physical health, energy, brain, and senses.
- Your relationships: Your family, friends, care team, and faith or community group.
- Your living and working conditions: Safe housing, fair pay, clean air, good medical care, and fair laws.
How These Four Parts Fit Together
- Working together: When your beliefs (Head), feelings (Heart), actions (Hands), and surroundings (Habitat) fit together in a safe and caring way, they can support your physical and mental health.
- When things clash or hurt: Grief, illness, trauma, or hard questions are normal and do not mean you are broken or failing. If a group, workplace, or leader is controlling or unsafe, setting boundaries, saying no, or leaving can protect your health. Physical illness and disability are never a punishment for weak faith.
Page 2: Your Rights and Safeguards (What No One May Do to You)
- It is always your choice: Taking part in any spiritual survey, conversation, or program is up to you. You can say “No, thank you” at any time without losing medical care, housing, food aid, grades, job, or military standing.
- No job, school, or military grading: Employers, schools, and commanders must never use your beliefs, spiritual struggles, or a Wellspring profile to hire, fire, promote, grade, discipline, or assign you, or to take away a security clearance.
- No denying medical care or disability benefits: Doctors, hospitals, insurers, workers’ compensation boards, and veterans’ benefit boards must never use this Framework to deny, delay, or cut your medical care, mental-health care, disability rating, or injury benefits. Spiritual care is never a replacement for safe staffing, fair pay, housing, or medicine.
- No forced change of sexual orientation or gender identity: This Framework rejects conversion efforts (SOCE and GICE) because they cause harm. At the same time, care teams must respect your own freely chosen values, religious language, and goals without pressure from any side.
- No court, prison, parole, or custody penalties: Courts, prisons, parole boards, immigration agencies, and court-ordered recovery programs must never force you to attend religious activities or punish you for having no religion or a minority faith. Family courts must never use a parent’s change of faith or nonbelief against them in child-custody decisions.
- Your private conversations: In the military, Military Rule of Evidence 503 lets you keep private what you tell a chaplain in confidence as an act of faith or conscience. Health records should keep sensitive spiritual notes private.
- No secret AI tracking or fake spiritual authority: No computer, app, or AI tool may secretly scan your messages, voice, or face to guess or score your faith or feelings. An AI tool must never pretend to be God, speak as a prophet, give religious forgiveness, or pretend to be a loved one who has died.
- Getting help right away in a crisis: If you are in danger of hurting yourself or someone else, or facing abuse, care teams should connect you right away with a qualified human doctor, counselor, or crisis team.
Hosting and source archive
The versioned source archive preserves this application, its ten figure images, resource metadata, and reuse notices. Use the complete archive when hosting it elsewhere; the HTML file alone does not contain the figure assets.
This release uses Tailwind CSS and Google Fonts from external services. Those requests need network access. Notes and selections stay in the current tab unless you choose to export them. Use hypothetical cases only.
Download Explorer 1.1.0 and the Research & Resources Hub source
Institutional hosting
The package can be served by a static web host. An institutional website can link to the hosted application or embed it if its platform permits. Follow the chosen host’s current documentation for domain setup, terms, and pricing. This guide does not configure a domain or change any account settings.
Code: MIT. Original Wellspring content and illustrations: CC BY 4.0. The AI Reference and third-party works retain their own terms.