Practical learning
Browse AURIS Academy courses and their activities. Each course states its current availability and access arrangements.
Explore →“Take away your opinion, and there is taken away the complaint.”
ABOUT AURIS INSTITUTE
Understanding the person beyond the role.
A role can give us routine, connection and a sense of who we are. When it changes, practical questions and personal questions can arrive together.
AURIS brings research, practical learning and routes to support together, so you can explore what is useful without having to explain everything first.
Find your first useful step →WHERE THE WORK BEGAN
Lived experience led to a wider question.
AURIS was founded by Gemma Gardner, a British Army veteran. Her experience of leaving a defining role became a starting point for exploring identity, belonging and what people carry into the next stage of life.
Those questions shape an ongoing programme of interviews, reflection and educational development. The research pages let you see what has been published and what remains open.
Read how AURIS began →Meet the people behind AURIS.
Read Gemma’s background and the team’s published roles, qualifications and experience.
THE AURIS IDENTITY SYSTEM
Five pillars give the learning its structure.
Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability organise the AURIS approach. They offer a structure for educational reflection. The integrated framework is still being evaluated.
- Awareness
- Notice what is happening.
- Understanding
- Explore the context and what it means to you.
- Regulation
- Consider how you respond and what may help.
- Identity
- Explore who you are alongside the roles you hold.
- Stability
- Consider the routines and connections you want to build.
HOW THE INSTITUTE FITS TOGETHER
Different ways to find something useful.
Space to reflect
Find My Way offers optional AI assisted reflection and helps you explore relevant next steps. Sharing your circumstances is voluntary.
Explore →Support and connection
Search organisations and events by what you need and where you are. You can browse independently without first telling your story.
Explore →Research you can check
Read publications, sources and limitations. The Knowledge Hub explains concepts in plain English alongside the original work.
Explore →aurisidentity.org is AURIS Institute: Find My Way, research, the Global Hub and AURIS Academy courses and practitioner training are here. aurisidentity.com provides the separate AURIS Membership and daily identity tools. Academy course purchases and app membership are separate; neither automatically buys the other.
Read the Knowledge Hub →Understand separate membershipWHAT MATTERS IN THE WAY WE WORK
Choice, clarity and honest limits.
Your choice
You can explore the website independently. Reflection, research participation and newsletter sign-up are choices, rather than conditions of reading.
Evidence with context
We distinguish established underpinning research, proposed AURIS ideas and emerging observations. A publication or positive account is not proof that an offer works.
A manageable next step
The learning includes practical activities and space to reflect. You can adapt or skip personal reflection and use an ordinary or fictional example.
EXPLORE MORE ABOUT AURIS
Follow the question that matters to you.
Our mission and values →
The purpose behind the work and the principles that guide it.
Participation and impact records →
What the records show, what has been completed and what those figures cannot establish.
Work with AURIS →
Check published opportunities and how to contact AURIS about working together.
Questions about AURIS →
Plain answers about the Institute, learning, access and the wider system.
The research behind the questions →
Explore the programme’s emerging interpretation alongside its evidence and limitations.
For partners and spouses →
A starting point for someone whose own life changes around service and transition.
When work still feels unsettled →
Explore the questions raised when changing jobs has not answered what matters to you.
New to the terminology? Open the glossary.
SOMEWHERE TO BEGIN
You do not need a complete plan to take one useful step.
Start Here brings the choices together. Read, try something practical or find support at your own pace.