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AURIS Academy pathway · Life and Role Change
Changed career, made redundant or retired, and you still do not feel like yourself?
A role held for years can become part of how you understand yourself, so leaving it may involve more than a change of job. That is why a career change can look right on paper and still feel wrong, and why redundancy or retirement can take more than income and routine.
Age can be one practical factor among many. AURIS focuses on separating who you are from what you did, then rebuilding direction and structure where that is useful.
This pathway starts with the free Introduction to AURIS, then continues through four specialist courses on identity, regulation, purpose and stability.
Life and Role Change: When the Role Changes and You Are Still There
This pathway is for anyone whose working life is changing, by choice or not. A career change at 40 or 50, redundancy, retirement, illness, or simply reaching a point where the role you have held for years no longer feels like you. It starts from the part most transition support skips: who you are underneath the job.
See all five pathways if this is not the one.
The questions people ask first
Is it too late to change career at 40 or 50?
Age, opportunity, health, finances and identity can all matter in career change. This pathway focuses specifically on the identity, regulation, purpose and stability questions.
I have just been made redundant. What does this actually help with?
Redundancy takes routine, status and belonging as well as income, and the part people are least prepared for is the identity it was holding. The free first course starts there, and the four paid courses then work on identity, regulation, purpose and stability.
You may be experiencing
Each of these is answered by one course in this pathway.
“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.
Identity Foundations“I am good at my job and I still do not want to do it any more.”
Being capable at something is not the same as it still fitting who you are. Start with why moving on feels this hard.
Understanding Change“Retirement arrived and I did not expect to feel this flat.”
A role can carry a strong sense of purpose. If that changes at retirement, purpose may need to be renegotiated rather than assumed to disappear in one predictable way.
Building Purpose“I was made redundant and I have lost more than the income.”
Redundancy can affect routine, status, belonging and pay in different combinations. Understanding Change explores what changed for you; its current price is shown on the course page.
Understanding Change“I keep waiting to feel settled in the new role and it has not happened.”
Settling can involve time, context and deliberate structure. Building a workable routine is one part you can influence.
Building Stability
Start free
Start here for the core language before choosing a deeper course.
Introduction to AURIS
A free introduction to identity, change and the five AURIS pillars.
Go deeper
4 specialist courses, each bought individually at the price shown on its course page. This is a suggested order; choose only what you need.
- Step 1Individually pricedCertificate of Completion
Identity Foundations
Five lessons across Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability, with a workbook and a short assessment.
The applied core of the framework, worked pillar by pillar.
Course details - Step 2Individually pricedCertificate of Completion
Emotional Regulation
Understanding your reactions and building practical control over them, without pretending difficult feelings away.
Provides practical options for regulating reactions when change is emotionally demanding.
Course details - Step 3Individually pricedCertificate of Completion
Building Purpose
Finding direction again when the obvious purpose has gone.
Rebuilds direction that does not depend on a job title.
Course details - Step 4Individually pricedCertificate of Completion
Building Stability
Creating a life structure that holds when things get hard.
Makes the structure survive a bad week, not only a good one.
Course details
Why these courses work together
- The free Introduction to AURIS establishes the identity and change language used across the deeper courses.
- Identity Foundations then works the whole AURIS Identity System, so the language of the remaining courses is already familiar.
- Emotional Regulation and Purpose address different needs. This suggested order gives regulation practice before purpose work, but it is not claimed to be a necessary psychological sequence.
- Building Purpose and Building Stability finish the journey: direction that does not rely on a job title, and a structure that holds when the week goes badly.
- This is a curated learning route, not a prerequisite chain. Learners can enter the specialist course that best fits their current question.
How AURIS approaches this
Every pathway moves through the same five pillars: Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability. Noticing what is happening, understanding what it is doing, steadying it, rebuilding who you are, then making that hold.
Read about the AURIS Identity SystemWhat the evidence does, and does not, show
- What the evidence supports: that defining-role transitions can involve identity, belonging and purpose as well as practical change, and that repeated cue-behaviour associations and context matter in habit formation.
- What it does not show: that any course resolves that disruption on a timetable. AURIS research describes an emerging pattern from a minority of its interviews, not a proven sequence.
- This is education, not therapy or clinical treatment. It makes no promise about employment, recovery or psychological improvement.
Read the evidence before you decide anything
Research
The Identity Gap in Service Leaver Support: Why It MattersOur review of UK transition guidance found practical resettlement covered in depth, yet identity as a psychological process barely named.
Research
£300 Billion. And We Are Still Asking Some of the Wrong Questions.What happens to identity when a defining role ends? AURIS examines occupational transition, prevention and why employment alone is not the whole measure.
Research
White Paper 0, From Transition to Service Provider Identity AdaptationFrom Transition to Service Provider Identity Adaptation, AURIS White Paper 0. A working model testing how occupational identity, role centrality and identity fusion may relate to adaptation in military, police, fire, ambulance and NHS roles.
Research
Where Identity Work BelongsAn AURIS white paper discussing where identity-focused work may fit alongside existing transition and support services.
Common questions
- Is this career coaching or outplacement?
- No. This pathway is learning for the individual, and it does not find you a job. If you are an employer looking for career transition or outplacement support for your people, that is a separate organisational service.
- Do I have to buy the whole pathway?
- No. The free starting course remains free. Each paid course is bought individually at the price shown on its course page. The pathway is a suggested learning route, not a bundle.
- Do I get a certificate?
- Complete the lessons and required assessment in a course to receive its AURIS Certificate of Completion. Each course has its own certificate.
- How long does it take?
- All five courses are self-paced. There is no deadline and nothing expires, so you can work through a course in an evening or over a month.
- What if my situation is not one of the five pathways?
- Then take the courses in the order that suits you. Every course has its own page and can be taken on its own, and the free courses stay free. A pathway is only a suggested order, not a requirement.
What people search for before they arrive here
If any of these is close to what you typed, this pathway is written for you.
- career change at 40
- career change at 50
- career change advice
- career transition
- redundancy support
- retirement coaching
Complete the pathway
Buy only the courses you need
5 courses · Certificate for each completed course
Start with the free course if it helps, then choose the specialist courses that fit your situation. Each paid course is purchased separately at the price shown.
Complete the lessons and required assessment in a course to receive its AURIS Certificate of Completion. Each course has its own certificate. These are course completion certificates, not a qualification or professional certification.
The free starting course stays free. Paid courses are purchased individually at the price shown on each course page, with lifetime access to every course you buy.
Academy courses and AURIS Membership
AURIS Academy and AURIS Membership are separate products. Academy paid courses are one-time purchases with lifetime access. AURIS Membership is the £9.99 monthly ongoing experience delivered in the AURIS Identity app at aurisidentity.com. You can use either on its own; buying an Academy course does not create an app subscription, and app membership does not buy Academy courses.
About AURIS MembershipNot your situation?
A pathway is a suggested order, not a requirement. If none of these fits, take the courses in whichever order suits you.
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