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Identity Foundations

Build from the ground up.

By the end you will be able to use the five AURIS pillars to work out which part of your identity needs attention first.

Part of the AURIS approach to identity, stability and human development.

  • Applied
  • £10.00
  • Certificate on completion

Discover the five AURIS pillars and learn how lasting identity is built through awareness, understanding, regulation, identity and stability.

Buy this course · £10.00

£10.00 one-off payment, lifetime access

  1. 1. Sign in, or create a free account. It takes a name, an email address and a password.
  2. 2. Pay by card on the course page. The payment form is Stripe's own, so AURIS never sees or stores your card details.
  3. 3. The course opens straight away and stays in your library. There is no subscription and nothing renews.

A certificate is issued when you finish every lesson and pass the assessment.

Identity Foundations cover: a person standing before five stone pillars at sunrise named Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability, beside the words Build who you're meant to become.

Who this course is for

“I have changed career on paper, but I still do not feel like myself.”

The job changed and the identity built around it did not. That gap is the work, and it is what the framework is for.

Where this course fits

Where it sits
Specialist learning inside the Life and Role Change pathway.
What usually comes before
Most people take Understanding Change before this one, though nothing here requires it.
What usually comes next
Emotional Regulation is next in the Life and Role Change pathway. Steadies the reactions that change tends to provoke.

This course can be taken together with other qualifying AURIS short courses as one bundle, priced by how many you choose. See how bundles work.

A pathway is a suggested order, not a requirement. Nothing here has to be bought to make this course work.

The pathways it belongs to

  • Part of the Life and Role Change pathway: Changed career, made redundant or retired, and you still do not feel like yourself?

A pathway is a suggested order, not a requirement. This course can be taken on its own.

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About this course

An applied course that takes you through the AURIS Framework pillar by pillar, with reflection and practice at every step. Built for people living through identity adaptation, not studying it from a distance.

What you will learn

  • Name what actually changed when your role ended, without minimising it.
  • Understand the difference between the role you held and the person who held it.
  • Use one regulation practice you can rely on during a hard day.
  • Describe your identity in your own words rather than by job title.
  • Set one small, repeatable action that steadies your week.

Why this matters

Primary pillar: Identity. This course builds Identity by working all five pillars in order around one honest description of yourself, which is the applied core of the framework.

Course curriculum

5 lessons. The lesson content itself opens once you start the course.

  1. Lesson 1 · about 15 minutes

    Naming what changed

    Build an honest, factual inventory of what ended and what began, before interpreting any of it.

    • List the specific losses and gains of your transition.
    • Separate fact from interpretation.

  2. Lesson 2 · about 15 minutes

    The role and the person who held it

    Separate capability that belongs to you from capability that was credited to the role.

    • Distinguish role attributes from personal attributes.
    • Reclaim capabilities that were credited to the role.

  3. Lesson 3 · about 15 minutes

    Capacity for hard days

    Identify your own early warning signs and choose one boring, reliable regulation practice.

    • Name your own early warning signs.
    • Practise one regulation technique.

  4. Lesson 4 · about 15 minutes

    A self you recognise

    Write an honest, non-job-title description of yourself and test it against how you actually live.

    • Describe yourself without a job title.
    • Test that description against how you actually live.

  5. Lesson 5 · about 15 minutes

    Acting from a steady place

    Set one small, repeatable action and plan explicitly for the week it fails.

    • Set one small repeatable action.
    • Plan for the week it goes wrong.

What is included

  • Audio narration
  • Guided reflections
  • Interactive exercises
  • Practical activities
  • Assessment
  • Portfolio work
  • Certificate on completion

Before you start

Complete the four free courses first, or start here if you already know the AURIS Framework.

Research and evidence

Built on the AURIS Framework and the research programme on service provider identity adaptation, including the 2024 to 2025 evidence review. Stoic content added 18 August 2026: LeBon, T., Brown, G., DiGiuseppe, R., Karl, J., Fischer, R., & Lopez, G. (2025). The development and validation of the stoic attitudes and behaviours scale. Cognitive Therapy and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-025-10635-9

Common questions

How much does Identity Foundations cost?
It is £10 on its own, bought once and yours to keep. If it belongs to a pathway, the four paid courses on that pathway are £20 together, and the free course on that pathway stays free.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes. Finishing the course issues an AURIS Certificate of Completion in your name. It records your learning. It is not a qualification, accreditation or licence to practise, which is what the separate AURIS Practitioner Certification is for.
How long does it take, and is it self-paced?
It is self-paced. Once you enrol, every lesson is open, there is no deadline and nothing expires.
Do I need to do anything before this course?
Complete the four free courses first, or start here if you already know the AURIS Framework.

Course progression

  1. Foundation
  2. Applied
  3. Practitioner

Identity Foundations is the gateway paid course. Once you complete it you can take Building Purpose, Emotional Regulation and Building Stability in any order. This also relates to What You Stand For, which builds the same pillar a different way.

Related courses

The evidence behind this course

Evidence

  • From Transition to Service Provider: Identity Adaptation — AURIS (source)

    The 2024 to 2025 evidence review on service provider identity adaptation that this course is built on.

How AURIS interprets it

  • AURIS applies the identity adaptation research as a pillar-by-pillar working method (Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity, Stability), which is AURIS's own structuring of the material rather than a finding of the review itself.

What you do with it

  • You name what actually changed when your role ended, use one regulation practice you can rely on, and describe your identity in your own words rather than by job title.
  • You set one small, repeatable action that steadies your week, and complete the course workbook and assessment.

Ready to begin?

£10.00 one-off payment, with lifetime access to the course.

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