AURIS Serving Personnel Transition Programme
Prepare before the structure changes.
By the end you will have a practical transition plan built around what may change, what you can influence, what you carry forward and what will support stability.
Part of the AURIS approach to identity, stability and human development.
- Applied
- £99.00
- Certificate on completion
- About 540 minutes
A six-week programme for serving personnel preparing for civilian life. Establish your starting point, understand what may change, practise steadier responses, translate what you carry forward and build a practical plan for stability.
What you'll leave with
Keep using the operating plan, review what works, and use appropriate resettlement, community, professional or clinical support when needed. Follow-up measurement may be offered separately and remains consent-controlled.
Watch the course introduction
Watch this before you begin
Begin with one lived-experience account of what service can mean for role, structure and belonging. Notice what the person describes, then map what service provides in your own life and what might stay or change. This is a perspective, not a prediction that transition will be difficult. Complete your own starting measure before drawing conclusions about your circumstances.
£99.00 one-off payment, lifetime access
- 1. Sign in, or create a free account. It takes a name, an email address and a password.
- 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. 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.
Course illustration
Suggested learning pathways
Where this course fits
- Where it sits
- Specialist learning that can be taken on its own, in any order.
- What usually comes before
- Nothing. This is a starting point, and the free Introduction to AURIS is always open alongside it.
- What usually comes next
- Whatever fits your situation. See the five pathways.
A pathway is a suggested order, not a requirement. Nothing here has to be bought to make this course work.
About this course and why it matters
About this course
A six-week preparation programme for serving personnel approaching military-to-civilian transition. Week 0 establishes a starting point; Weeks 1–5 use Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability.
Why this matters
Practical resettlement can address jobs, housing and administration. This programme also helps you notice and prepare for possible changes in structure, role, belonging, identity and direction.
What you will learn
- Establish a starting point before substantive teaching
- Notice what service currently provides and what may change
- Separate facts, assumptions and interpretations
- Practise proportionate regulation and action under uncertainty
- Translate role and rank into portable capability and values
- Build a practical stability and review plan
Course curriculum · 6 lessons
Course curriculum
6 lessons. The lesson content itself opens once you start the course.
Lesson 1 · about 75 minutes
My Starting Point
“My move date is confirmed; the future commute is unknown; I will check the route” separates fact, uncertainty and action.
- Complete a fact/uncertainty/action starting map and explain what a baseline score cannot establish.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
Lesson 2 · about 90 minutes
Awareness — Notice What Is Changing
A confirmed end-date is a fact; “nobody will need me” is an interpretation.
- Separate a confirmed end-date from “nobody will need me” and select an information or preparation step.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
Lesson 3 · about 90 minutes
Understanding — Make Sense of It
“I organised the rota and the team covered the gap” describes contribution.
- Translate one action/result and state a neutral question that could disconfirm an interpretation.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
Lesson 4 · about 90 minutes
Regulation — Respond, Do Not Just React
After a cancelled appointment, pause if useful, notice frustration and check the new arrangement.
- Apply Pause–Notice–Choose to an ordinary disruption and explain what practical change is still needed.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
Lesson 5 · about 90 minutes
Identity — Decide What Comes With Me
Fairness might become asking volunteers how to share a task rather than allocating it by rank.
- Show a chosen value in one action, name an adaptation and review fit in a new setting.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
Lesson 6 · about 105 minutes
Stability — Build What Can Hold
A new caring duty may require revising the plan.
- Revise a 30/90-day plan after a new constraint and interpret unchanged/lower self-ratings without claiming efficacy.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
What is included
- Audio narration
- Guided reflections
- Practical activities
- Downloadable worksheets
- Assessment
- Certificate on completion
Before you start
Currently serving and preparing for military-to-civilian transition.
After you finish
After you finish
Keep using the operating plan, review what works, and use appropriate resettlement, community, professional or clinical support when needed. Follow-up measurement may be offered separately and remains consent-controlled.
Common questions
How much does AURIS Serving Personnel Transition Programme cost?
It is £99, paid once. You keep lifetime access to the course, including future research driven updates. There is no subscription or renewal.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes. Complete every lesson and pass the required assessment to receive an AURIS Certificate of Completion in your name. It records your learning. The separate Practitioner Certification is an internal AURIS programme; neither certificate is an externally accredited qualification or a clinical licence to practise.
How long does it take, and is it self-paced?
Study at your own pace. Lessons open in sequence after you complete the previous lesson; there is no daily waiting period for this course, and the course is designed to take about 540 minutes in total.
What work do I need to complete?
Lessons include practical activities and saved reflections. Some courses also require portfolio entries and an assessment; the lesson and assessment pages identify required work. Use ordinary or fictional examples where appropriate and avoid identifying details. Reading or listening alone does not complete a lesson.
Do I need to do anything before this course?
Currently serving and preparing for military-to-civilian transition.
Next steps and related courses
Course progression
- Foundation
- Applied
- Practitioner
For people still serving and preparing to leave. This is educational/coaching support, not therapy, diagnosis or a replacement for resettlement, employment, financial, medical or clinical services.
Evidence, sources and limitations
Research and evidence
Evidence-informed from military-to-civilian transition, social identity, belonging, emotion regulation, implementation-intention and habit research. The AURIS five-pillar sequence remains a testable design hypothesis and is not claimed necessary, optimal, causal or superior.
The evidence behind this course
Evidence
Military identity and planning for the transition out of the military — Kleykamp and colleagues, 2021 (Read source)
Longitudinal qualitative work identifies pre-separation planning, exit conditions and military identity as relevant to post-transition outcomes; it does not show that one programme guarantees successful transition.
Military to civilian cultural transition experiences: systematic meta-synthesis — Sachdev and Dixit, 2024 (Read source)
Military-to-civilian transition can include cultural, identity, social and practical adjustment, with substantial variation between people.
Social Identity Theory and the Organization — Ashforth and Mael, 1989 (Read source)
Organisational roles and group membership can become meaningful social identities, relevant to role transition without implying pathology.
Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects — Gross, 2015 (Read source)
Emotion regulation involves processes and strategies with differing consequences; this does not validate any single AURIS technique as treatment.
Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-analysis of Effects and Processes — Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006 (Read source)
If-then implementation intentions can support goal pursuit across studied contexts; application to military transition remains an AURIS translation.
How AURIS interprets it
- AURIS applies established transition, identity, regulation and behaviour-change evidence before exit. The Week 0–5 sequence and direct operational delivery style are testable AURIS design hypotheses, not proven necessary, optimal or superior.
What you do with it
- You establish a starting point, notice what service currently provides, test assumptions, practise regulation, translate capability and identity beyond rank, then build a practical stability/review plan before leaving.
Ready to begin?
£99.00 one-off payment, with lifetime access to the course.