2012
Humble Beginnings...
Whilst hiring out water sports equipment at Kingscliff, Australia, founder Tim Jack Adams started to research why is it when people connect to self and others through nature do they seem healthier and happier? This one question has led to what is now known as GreenX7.
Tim is founder and company director of Watersports Guru, and became the first operator to be GreenX7 endorsed (obviously).
Our very first logo….yikes!2013
GreenX7 R&D
Green Brain Project (now known as the X7 R&D project) was formed by reaching out to Dr. Jules Pretty and his team at the University of Sussex who had coined the phrase ‘Green Exercise’ highlighting active engagement in nature.
A significant body of research had already been undertaken and the results showed that when people actively engage in nature they became healthier and happier. This ignited Tim’s passion and curiosity to connect with leading health professionals globally to seek to understand the evidence base about why time in nature improves health and wellbeing.
Dr. Jules Pretty2013
Creation of X7 Tools
The team decided to take a holistic approach to health and wellness (combining elements of Eastern and Western philosophies) instead of acting on the individual components of health and wellbeing i.e. exercise, mindfulness. With this mindset and the aim of creating a model for everyday wellness the X7 Tools were formed.
A special shout must go out here to Bri Croke who became the heart behind GreenX7 and a founding facilitator, who is still our biggest inspiration to lead a life lived from the heart.
2013
GreenX Launches
GreenX7 (then called GreenX) was chosen to be mentored by Mark Olsen at EC3 global who became the very first advisor and later soul brother to Tim Jack Adams.
The initial website was created at www.greenexercise.com.au (now info.greenx7.com). The company GreenX is registered which would later become GreenX7.
Our first marketing foray2015
The Immersion Program
2015 saw the formal roll out of the Immersion program for conference and events. A
wellness framework for business events to help delegates reconnect, reset and
recharge whilst on conference.2016
Eden Health Retreat
GreenX7 facilitates their very first pilot workshops at Eden Health Retreat, allowing the team to review module 1,2 & 3 and start to roll out workshops at home in Australia and around the globe.
2016
United World College (UWC) China
The first international workshop was delivered at the United World College (UWC) China. As a result of its success, GreenX7 has subsequently worked in many countries across various industries.
2016
Australian Defence Force
GreenX7 starts to work with the Australian Defence Force within the Soldier Recovery Centre and still continues to this day. Tim’s brother, Sam, was a former soldier who himself had a stint at the Soldier Recovery Centre. Sam’s personal experiences and advice alongside extensive research helped GreenX7 gain better understanding about the struggles of PTSD and loss of identity.
2016
Play For Your Life Cards
Play For Your Life Cards are created to get blokes to open up after Tim’s mate Mal ends his life. The cards are now used for all demographics across many cultures.
Tim grew up in a household of 6 boys, many which have struggled as did Tim to share and show emotion. Unfortunately, male suicide is the leading cause of death for men between 15-44 years. Tim grew up on the Tweed and Gold Coast, and unfortunately has seen many suicides within his community.
One of Tim’s purposes in life is to inspire individuals and teams to create value, meaning and belonging in their lives and those around them.
2017
Impact Academy
GreenX7 joins Impact Academy to become a member of the AI-6 cohort. GreenX7 now runs health and wellness workshops for the Impact Academy graduates.
2017
Partners with EarthCheck
GreenX7 partners with EarthCheck to create human sustainability and implement across their global network alongside their environmental platform.
2017
Board of Advisors Welcomed
GreenX7 welcomes their expertise board of advisors. Learn more about each of our advisor members here.
2017
Workplace Wellness
Corporate and Workplace Wellness: GreenX7 first facilitators training workshop.
2017
To the Screen...
From everyday to the screen: production team created our first package of videos.
2017
First School to Implement GreenX7
Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar in Australia becomes the first school to implement the GreenX7 program with students.
2018
GreenX7 App Launches
After consulting for Hotels internationally and observing the disconnection between guests and their environment Tim formulated the idea of the map/app which is now being implemented globally throughout hotels, companies, schools and open spaces.
The GreenX7 app is now available on the App Store and Google Play.
2018
Sustainability of Wellness
Module 4: Sustainability of Wellness workshop is created.
2019
GreenX7 partner up with Six Senses Hotels
An amazing opportunity to work with the best luxury wellness hotel in the world. A beautiful collaboration with beautiful people.
NEIL JACOBS,
CEO
“We appreciate what you’re doing for us and how you impact people’s lives. Grateful to have your time and space.”
2020
8 ‘Weeks to Well’ challenge
With global clients GreenX7 needed to create an online platform to help their clients improve their ‘Everyday Wellness’ remotely. Thus the App based challenge was born!
2021
GreenX7 goes Virtual to support through COVID
Working purely face to face pre-pandemic GreenX7 needed a way to continue to offer their workshop remotely. And of course ZOOM was there to facilitate.
2022
Measure and improve Australia’s Wellbeing
GreenX7 has some BIG goals and one of those is to ‘measure and improve the wellbeing of Australia’. Utilising our App technology we have created a way to measure and share wellbeing within 60 seconds. We are hoping this is going to change the landscape of mental wellbeing in Australia. The phrase ‘Are you OK’? typically gives the response of ‘I’m fine’. Now with our App and using the language of ‘How’s your battery’ we can start to bring ‘awareness to wellness’ and improve it.
