Moral Injury Training
GIDII Advocacy has developed a corporate training package on Moral Injury that is in addition to the documentary. The documentary Shattered will be released in 2025. However, the corporate training is available now and features a powerful dramatisation film showing how excessive confidence in authority can jeopardize psychological and physical safety. In hierarchical systems, deference to those at the top can lead to dangerous consequences. It can also cause a moral injury.
This is especially critical for organizations aiming to help the community, as their authority demands higher accountability.
Excessive confidence in authority can create dangerous blind spots in workplace safety, both physically and psychologically. This dramatization explores the impact of "moral injury"—when employees are told to trust in leadership even when faced with unsafe conditions or toxic cultures. By showcasing a real-world example, when a system fails this case study illustrates how unchecked authority can suppress critical thinking, silence concerns, and perpetuate harmful environments, leading to severe emotional and physical consequences. Learn how to recognize and address these risks to protect your workforce and foster a culture of open communication and safety.
Use the discussion guides to explore what is moral injury and find constructive solutions to avoid harmful outcomes in your organisation.
Includes 6 powerful international case studies introduce the dramatisation prompting the viewer to consider ethical challenges that left unaddressed all had devastating consequences.
About Moral Injury
Moral injury refers to the suffering experienced when individuals in high-stakes situations, things go wrong, and harm results from something a person did, witnessed, failed to prevent, or received.
Originally identified relating to theprofound impact of combat on veterans' it has gained increasing recognition among various professionals. These include healthcare workers, leaders in systems involving vulnerable populations, first responders, social workers, journalists, and activists.
This educational experience draws from multidisciplinary research and practices, including social work, psychology, spiritual care, mental health counseling, religion, and healing arts. Additionally, it will enhance participants' ability to develop and implement peer support strategies. These strategies are designed to help process distressing experiences, facilitate moral repair, and build moral resilience.
Further resources: The current status of Moral Injury. A narrative review and Rapid Evidence Assessment, Phoenix Australia, Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health
Books:
Dirty Work - Essential Jobs and Their Hidden Toll of Inequality - Eyal Press
Moral Distress and Causes In Human Services
Art:
The Healing Power of the Arts - Moral Injury Installation
Spiritual Care:
How Chaplains Help Heal Moral Injury
What The Dramatization Offers
Our innovative dramatization case study provides:
- Deep insights into moral injury and its relevance to systems intersectionality and abuse
- Strategies to maintain your humanity in process-driven environments
- Tools to recognize and address moral distress in yourself and your colleagues
- Techniques for ethical decision-making in complex cases
Structure
* Film depicting how one woman was betrayed & terrorized by a system meant to heal. The dramatization shows the viewer what moral distress and catastrophic systemic failure looks like, how it feels, what happens - it provides a discussion framework for real-world ethical dilemmas and opportunity to analyze missed points of intervention... if only...
* Expert-led lecture on what the research tells us about moral injury and its relevance to workers compensation
* Interactive discussion guide on balancing process requirements with human needs
* Practical tools on implementing ethical responses in your daily work
* Development of personalized strategies to prevent moral injury in your role.
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Moral Distress & Organisational Betrayal Is A Leadership Issue
Your decisions and actions can profoundly impact lives. It's a leadership issue and everyone operating within your organisation needs to be aware how their actions impact those around them. This moral injury training and powerful case study empowers you to:
- Recognize situations that could cause moral distress
- Understand the importance of your response in preventing moral injury
- Learn how to be the human at the center of process-driven systems
- Develop strategies to navigate complex ethical situations
- Understand how workload impacts your team
- Supports agency and job control
Don't let the unseen toll of moral distress impact your wellbeing or impact others. Invest in your ability to be a compassionate, ethical professional in a complex field yet still maintain a high performance work environment.
