“Take away your opinion, and there is taken away the complaint.”
About · Our Story
How AURIS began.
AURIS started with a question that resettlement never answers: who am I now that I am no longer the role I once held?
Too many people who give the most end up navigating the hardest transitions alone.
AURIS exists to make that journey gentler, clearer and more hopeful, without pretending it is simple. We are a small, deliberate organisation building for the long term.
Why AURIS exists.
A short note from our founder about the conversations and lived experience behind the research and the AURIS Identity System.
"AURIS grew out of conversations that kept repeating themselves, people who had served, who looked fine, and who quietly were not."
The pattern was familiar: a strong sense of identity built around a role, and very little language for the moment that role ended or changed. People were not unwell. They were unanchored.
We started small, listening, reading the research, working with individuals and the organisations around them. AURIS is what emerged: a framework, a practice and an app that hold the work of identity adaptation and belonging without rushing it.
The founder, Gemma Gardner, focuses on Identity Performance Psychology through research, lived experience and the development of the AURIS Framework, bringing together what the evidence shows and what service-shaped lives actually need.
Read the founder biography on the founder page, and explore the published work in the research programme.
Read more about the people behind the Institute on the Meet the team page, or see the evidence base in our research programme.
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