What each course costs, and what you get.

Included with every course

• Self paced learning you can stop and return to.
• A Certificate of Completion where the course offers one.
• Your progress, reflections and answers saved in your account.
• One payment for paid courses. No subscription, no renewal.

Free courses

Somewhere to begin, at no cost and with no card needed.

• Introduction to AURIS

  Free

  Start here. Four short lessons on what identity is, why it shifts when a role ends, and how AURIS works.

  • Describe what identity adaptation means in plain language.
  • Explain why identity comes before employability in transition support.
  • Name the five pillars of the AURIS Framework and what each one covers.
  • Recognise where you are in your own adaptation.

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Understanding Identity

  Free

  Why identity changes across a life, and why that change is normal rather than a fault.

  • Tell the difference between identity and role
  • Explain in plain words why the end of a role can feel like loss
  • Describe what belonging gives a person
  • Name one part of your identity you want to carry forward

  About 45 minutes · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Five-Day Reset

  Free

  Five short days, one AURIS pillar each, with something practical to do every day.

  • Notice your own state without judging it
  • Understand what your reactions are doing for you
  • Use one regulation practice reliably
  • Name what you want to carry forward

  About 50 minutes · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Understanding Change

  Free

  Why change is hard for everyone, and how new habits actually form.

  • Explain why change is difficult for everyone
  • Describe what the brain is doing when it resists
  • Build a habit using cue, action and repetition
  • Write a realistic plan for the next six months

  About 45 minutes · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Identity After the Uniform

  Free

  A free course for police, fire and ambulance staff. Four short lessons on what the uniform carries beyond the job, and what happens to it when the role changes or ends.

  • Describe what identity adaptation means in plain language.
  • Explain why identity comes before employability when a defining role ends.
  • Name the five pillars of the AURIS Framework and what each one covers.
  • Recognise where you are in your own adaptation.

  About 40 minutes · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Controlling the Controllables

  Free

  A tool most people in high pressure service roles already use without ever learning its name. This course names it properly and gives you a structure to use it deliberately.

  • Sort a live situation into what is and is not within your control
  • Act on one item from the controllable column the same day
  • Notice when your effort is going into the column you cannot move
  • Use the two columns as a repeatable method rather than a one off

  About 1 hour · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

Paid short courses

Specialist courses bought individually, one payment each.

• Identity Foundations

  £10

  Five lessons across Awareness, Understanding, Regulation, Identity and Stability, with a workbook and a short assessment.

  • 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.

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Building Purpose

  £10

  Finding direction again when the obvious purpose has gone.

  • Define purpose without relying on a job title
  • Identify sources of purpose in ordinary life
  • Use contribution as a route back to direction
  • Hold direction when circumstances change

  About 1.5 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Emotional Regulation

  £10

  Understanding your reactions and building practical control over them.

  • Explain what emotions are for
  • Recognise your own patterns early
  • Use two regulation tools reliably
  • Build regulation that holds over months

  About 1.5 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Building Stability

  £10

  Creating a life structure that holds when things get hard.

  • Design a routine that holds under pressure
  • Set and keep a boundary
  • Name the relationships that steady you
  • Describe your identity in a way that survives change

  About 1.5 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Crisis Churn

  £10

  For anyone actively job-hunting after service, or stuck in a pattern of taking jobs that never quite fit. Built around the finding that around half of people who leave a long structured role change jobs three or four times in their first two years out.

  • Understand crisis churn and why it's an identity pattern, not a work-ethic problem
  • Recognise the aspirational-vs-operational identity gap in your own job search
  • Present yourself in interviews as a person, not only a CV
  • Choose a next role based on fit with who you are, not just what you're qualified for

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Craft and Community

  £10

  On the three places lasting meaning tends to come from after a defining role ends, building or making something, relationship, and a wider belief or meaning system, drawn from Frankl's meaning framework and AURIS's own interview research.

  • Understand Frankl's three routes to meaning and how they map onto identity reconstruction
  • Identify which of the three anchors you currently have, and which are missing
  • Take one concrete step in the anchor you're weakest in
  • Build a plan that doesn't depend on a single source of meaning

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Recognising the Delay

  £10

  For anyone still serving and telling themselves they'll deal with it later, and anyone newly out who suspects they did the same thing. Built around the denial mechanism named directly by the people closest to it.

  • Recognise denial as a specific, nameable stage, not a personal failing
  • Identify "trained procrastination", a learned instinct, not a character flaw
  • Understand the knowing-doing gap and why awareness alone doesn't change behaviour
  • Take one concrete action now, before a crisis forces it later

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Belonging After Service

  £10

  For spouses, partners and families, not only the person who served. Around a third of AURIS's own research interviews are family members, and until now nothing in the Academy has spoken to them directly.

  • Recognise that family members go through their own version of identity disruption, not just a supporting role in someone else's
  • Identify where institutional support was built around an assumption that didn't fit your family
  • Separate identity you built through the role from identity that's actually your own
  • Take one deliberate step toward a community that isn't borrowed from a partner's service

  About 40 minutes · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Leading After the Rank

  £10

  For senior leavers and anyone who's held a title that came with real public weight. On separating leadership as a portable skill from rank as a temporary position, and building an identity that survives losing a title more than once.

  • Separate leadership capability from the specific rank or title that displayed it
  • Recognise leadership adaptability as skill, not compromise
  • Understand why repeated, public role loss doesn't have to mean repeated collapse
  • Build a portfolio-style sense of stability not dependent on any single role

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• The Family's Transition

  £10

  For the whole family unit, including children, a companion to Belonging After Service, focused on the family's collective transition rather than the spouse's individual identity work.

  • Understand transition as a family-system event, not only an individual one
  • Approach conversations with children about change plainly and age-appropriately
  • Rebuild family routines deliberately after an external structure disappears
  • Build a shared family narrative that carries forward, not just an ending

  Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Staying Switched On

  £10

  Two practices that work in opposite directions. One turns attention inward to your own judgements, the other turns it outward to scale a problem correctly.

  • Catch a judgement forming before you act on it
  • Hold steady attention on your own reactions without harshness
  • Widen your view to size a problem against the whole picture
  • Choose which of the two practices a situation needs

  About 1.3 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• Rehearsal for the Hard Day

  £10

  Thinking through what could go wrong, on purpose and in advance, so the hard day is not the first time you have considered it.

  • Rehearse a likely difficulty briefly and deliberately
  • Separate rehearsal from rumination
  • Prepare a first response rather than a full plan
  • Use rehearsal without letting it become worry

  About 1.3 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• What You Stand For

  £10

  Describing who you are by the qualities you act with, rather than by the job you held.

  • Describe your own character in four plain qualities
  • Recognise where each quality is already strong
  • Choose one quality to work on deliberately
  • Separate character from role and rank

  About 1.3 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

• The Debrief

  £10

  Three questions at the end of the day, and the name of the tradition you have been practising.

  • Run a short structured review at the end of the day
  • Keep the practice going without it becoming a chore
  • Recognise the tradition these methods come from
  • Continue the practice on your own after the course

  About 1.3 hours · Certificate of Completion included

  What this course covers

AURIS courses are education, not therapy, medical treatment or crisis support.