Free resources for identity loss and life after military service.
Practical guides, checklists and templates you can work through for yourself. Written by AURIS for veterans, service leavers and anyone whose trained role has ended or changed, so identity loss feels less confusing and life after military service has some structure. Read them here, print them, or save them as a PDF. There is nothing to pay and no account to create.
What these are, and what they are not
Each item comes from the AURIS framework and from our published research. Every one links to the white paper behind it so you can check what it is based on. They are education and structured self reflection, not therapy, medical treatment or crisis support. If you are in crisis, contact your GP, NHS 111, or the emergency services.
Thinking about work next?
Our careers guidance for service leavers covers the kinds of work people move into, a way of working through an application, and a form you can use to ask about your own situation.
Careers for service leaversGuides
- Guide
Identity after service: a plain guide
A short guide for veterans and service leavers explaining why leaving a trained role is an identity change, not only a change of job, and what to do first.
Awareness · Understanding
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Checklists
- Checklist
Leaving well: an identity checklist
A checklist for the months around leaving a service role, covering the identity questions that practical resettlement lists tend to leave out.
Awareness · Understanding · Identity
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Asking for the right kind of support
A short checklist for working out what you are actually asking for before you contact an organisation, and how to tell whether you are in the right place.
Awareness · Understanding
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Templates
- Template
Weekly stability plan
A one page template for planning the small amount of structure that holds a week together, with space to review what actually happened.
Regulation · Stability
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Regulation pause card
A pocket sized card to carry or pin up, giving you a short pause to settle before you decide or respond.
Regulation
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Identity reflection worksheet
A guided worksheet for describing who you are now without using your old job title, and for choosing what you want to keep, drop and build.
Identity · Stability
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The research behind them
Our published white papers set out the thinking these pages come from, and the patterns page explains what our interview research is showing so far.
Ready for a course?
Our courses go further than these pages. The prices page shows what each one costs and what you get for it, including the free ones.
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