The Family's Transition
Explore change across the household.
Draft a household conversation or routine plan that allows different needs and answers.
Part of the AURIS approach to identity, stability and human development.
- Applied
- £29.00
- 4 lessons
- Certificate on completion
- About 40 minutes
Consider different family experiences, age-appropriate conversations and practical routines. Prepare arrangements that can be discussed, revised or left unresolved.
One-off purchase with lifetime course access. Sign in or create a free learner account to buy. Lessons open in order as you complete the required work, with no daily waiting period.
What you'll leave with
Prompts for family conversations, a routine to discuss together, and a shared description of the changes each person is experiencing.
Watch the course introduction
Watch this before you begin
When service changes, the whole family can move with it even when only one person wore the uniform. Watch this conversation first and listen for the effects on roles, relationships, belonging and the family system. Then begin the course with the family, not only the service leaver, in view.
£29.00 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
Who this course is for
“I do not know how to explain this change to the children.”
Children can notice changes in routines, mood or circumstances even when adults have not explained them. Plain, age-appropriate communication and space for questions can help families talk about what is changing.
Suggested learning pathways
Where this course fits
- Where it sits
- Specialist learning inside the Family and Belonging pathway.
- What usually comes before
- Most people take Belonging After Service before this one, though nothing here requires it.
- What usually comes next
- Emotional Regulation is next in the Family and Belonging pathway. Provides practical options for regulating reactions when change is emotionally demanding.
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 Family and Belonging pathway: Everyone asks how they are. Who asks how you are?
A pathway is a suggested order, not a requirement. This course can be taken on its own.
About this course and why it matters
About this course
Consider different family experiences, age-appropriate conversations and practical routines. Prepare arrangements that can be discussed, revised or left unresolved.
Why this matters
Shared planning can clarify arrangements while disagreement and uncertainty remain. No single family structure or transition story is assumed.
What you will learn
- Identify changes affecting the family as a unit
- Talk about transition with children in age-appropriate ways
- Build family routines without recreating military structure by default
- Create a shared story that leaves room for each family member's experience
Course curriculum · 4 lessons
Course curriculum
4 lessons. The lesson content itself opens once you start the course.
Lesson 1 · about 10 minutes
The Family Moves Too
One person may welcome a move and another miss a friendship.
- Record two different experiences of one move without privileging the serving person's version.
- Record two distinct personal accounts of a single family move alongside the shared factual event, without favouring the serving person's view or predicting children's adjustment.
Lesson 2 · about 10 minutes
Talking to Children About What's Changing
“The move is planned for then; we do not yet know the school; I will tell you when we do” is honest.
- Draft an honest response to a child's question without promising a result or making the child manage adult anxiety.
- Draft a three-part response to a child about an upcoming change that states what is known, names what is unknown, and specifies when an update will come, without promising unconfirmed outcomes or shifting adult anxiety to the child.
Lesson 3 · about 10 minutes
Rebuilding Family Routines After the Structure Goes
A plan may include confirmed shifts and an unresolved transport arrangement.
- Create a provisional routine with one unresolved issue and a named review, allowing different needs.
- Draft a provisional minimum week routine that notes confirmed commitments, records one unresolved issue, and specifies who will review it and when.
Lesson 4 · about 10 minutes
The Family's New Story
“We moved; one of us welcomed it and another misses the old community” preserves differing experience.
- Write a family account with loss, continuity and two differing perspectives, or explain why separate accounts fit better.
- Draft a family narrative containing loss, continuity, and two distinct viewpoints, or state why separate private accounts are more appropriate without forcing a positive resolution.
What is included
Some full lesson recordings need updating. The written lessons and exercises are available.
- Guided reflections
- Interactive exercises
- Practical activities
- Downloadable worksheets
- Assessment
- Portfolio work
- Certificate on completion
Before you start
None. This course can be taken on its own.
After you finish
After you finish
What you'll leave with: practical prompts for family conversations, a routine to agree together, and a shared description of the changes each person is experiencing.
Common questions
How much does The Family's Transition cost?
It is £29, 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 40 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 familiar or anonymised situations where appropriate and avoid identifying details. Reading or listening alone does not complete a lesson.
Do I need to do anything before this course?
None. This course can be taken on its own.
Next steps and related courses
Course progression
- Foundation
- Applied
- Practitioner
Transition pathway — FAMILY SYSTEM. This course addresses how the household adapts together: communication, children, routines and a shared post-service story. It is distinct from Belonging After Service, which centres the partner/family member's own identity.
Related courses
Suggested preparation
Belonging After Service
Course detailsSuggested next course
Emotional Regulation
Course details
Evidence, sources and limitations
Research and evidence
Military-to-civilian cultural transition meta-synthesis PMID 37490333; gender and military-to-civilian transition systematic review PMID 39899533; AURIS adult family interviews including an adult retrospective military-child account. Guidance involving current children is grounded in general family/child-development literature rather than claimed as evidence from minors in the AURIS dataset.
The evidence behind this course
Evidence
AURIS interview EP002 (Andy Hunsley) — AURIS
A logged, adult-retrospective interview describing a nomadic British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) childhood and an inherited-instability pattern that surfaced later in the interviewee's own life.
How AURIS interprets it
- AURIS treats this single adult-retrospective account as real, direct evidence about what growing up in a military family can carry forward, while being clear it is one interview, not a study of children.
- AURIS is explicit that it holds no interviews with currently-living minors, so the course's content on talking with children is drawn from general published child-development and family-transition literature, not from AURIS's own research, and the two are kept separate.
What you do with it
- Draft a household conversation or routine plan that allows different needs and answers.
- Use ordinary or fictional examples. The exercise does not establish a diagnosis, cause or practitioner competence.
Ready to begin?
£29.00 one-off payment, with lifetime access to the course.