The core ideas behind AURIS.

Identity is the stable sense of who you are across time, roles and relationships. It shapes how you think, decide, regulate emotion and connect with others.

Occupational transition is the structured change of a person's primary role — leaving the military, the NHS, emergency services, elite sport or another high-identity occupation.

Identity Performance Psychology (IPP) is the field that studies how a stable sense of self enables sustained performance, regulation and wellbeing across high-demand roles.

AURIS is a five-pillar framework — Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity, Stability — designed to support people through identity disruption and occupational transition.

Identity sits beneath wellbeing, performance, recovery and belonging. When we ignore it, support stalls. When we centre it, change becomes sustainable.