Built on science that creates.

Paneugenesis is a published, peer-reviewed hypothesis. It proposes a regenerative approach to health: designing conditions that generate net-positive outcomes for individuals, communities, and environments, all at once. The framework builds on salutogenesis, behavioral science, systems science, and quality management, and it is written to be tested, applied, and improved. This article is the foundation the entire BeWell’r practice stands on, and it is free for anyone to read.

Creating good works. Research shows that people respond more to messages about gaining health than avoiding disease (Becker, McMahan, Allen, & Nelson, 2002). Building on that insight opens gains that risk reduction alone cannot reach. A repeated cross-sectional study found that decades of traditional approaches produced only limited improvements in health behaviors, pointing to the opportunity for a generative path forward (Becker, Sewell, Bian, & Lee, 2020). The direction is clear: health promotion advances by going on offense, creating conditions for good rather than only defending against bad (Becker, Felts, Chaney, & McGraw, 2017).

The seven wellness areas you see in BeWell’r come from the Salutogenic Wellness Promotion Scale, a validated instrument for measuring the actions that generate health across physical, social, emotional, intellectual, vocational, spiritual, and environmental dimensions. The SWPS was validated in peer-reviewed research (Becker, Moore, Whetstone, Glascoff, & Chaney, 2009), confirmed for reliability by independent researchers (Anderson, Moore, Hayden, & Becker, 2014), and also developed as a short form for fast check-ins that help people stay on track and document their continued progress (Becker, Bian, Martin, Sewell, Stellefson, & Chaney, 2022). The SWPS has also been validated across age groups and languages, from college students to older adults, in English and Arabic.

When you check in with BeWell’r, you are using measurement science, not a quiz.

The practice arrives as an app because research shows that is where people welcome support. A qualitative study of interest in mobile health solutions found that people want tools that fit their daily lives and grow with them (Hoglund, Becker, & Tonn, 2025). BeWell’r is designed from those findings: daily, gentle, and always in your pocket.

The research continues. Paneugenesis is a hypothesis by design: stated clearly so it can be tested, measured, and improved. That is how good science works, and it is how good practice works too. BeWell’r invites researchers to study the framework, test its predictions, and build the evidence base with us.

Grounded in more than two decades of peer-reviewed research, with 100+ publications and presentations on creating health. View the full publication list (link coming soon)