The Moral Injury Project at Syracuse University has established a mission to provide a forum to explore the implications of moral injury as it relates to individuals seeking healing and integration of trauma and how moral injury impacts our society. Moral injury is the damage done to one’s conscience or moral compass when that person perpetrates, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that transgress one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.
From Moral Pain to Purpose: Applying the Moral Injury Experience Wheel in Recovery Work
Local VA Chaplain and author of The Moral Injury Experience Wheel, Rev. Dr. Wes Fleming, will present a workshop on how to use his Moral Injury Experience Wheel model in a variety of professional settings.
Saturday, April 25, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Reilley Room
446 Reilly Hall
Le Moyne College
(4th floor of Building 4 on the campus map)
Internal Directions: When you go in the south and closest entrance, you come in at a staircase between the second and third floors. The Reilley Room is directly ahead when you get to the 4th floor.
Parking: P lot at Le Moyne College
This seminar will equip you to:
- Define and understand moral injury in multiple contexts
- Identify features of moral injury in clients/patients and staff personnel
- Help others articulate their moral pain with precision and grasp the origin, context and function of moral injury
- Initiate successful appraisal and acceptance processing (flexible thinking)
- Facilitate adaptive grief process
- Enhance value clarification and initiate movement toward committed action (agency/self-efficacy)
- Adapt The Moral Injury Experience Wheel to multiple populations in various clinical settings
Rev. Dr. Wes Fleming is a Board-Certified Chaplain who serves at the Syracuse VA hospital where he works extensively with veterans exposed to war trauma. From his experience and research, he developed the Moral Injury ExperienceWheel (MIEW), an infographic instrument designed to visually depict the interrelationship between moral emotions and distressing moral events. The MIEW gives language and conceptual understanding to moral injury. To date, therapists and clinical chaplains have used the wheel to help active military personnel, Veterans,health care workers, first responders, and law enforcement officials experience relief from the debilitating aftermath of moral injury.
“As a VA Chaplain, I witness the struggle combat-exposed Veterans endure as they try to make sense of the moral complexities of war. I seek to develop approaches that give language and context to moral pain. I also advocate for a definition of moral injury that sees beyond the impact of acts of betrayal/transgression and includes paradoxical circumstances (e.g., “dirty hands”) which often disrupt foundational beliefs about moral order and personal agency.” —Rev. Dr. Wes Fleming
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available for Social Workers for $10, cash only.
Sponsored by Le Moyne College and the Moral Injury Project of Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University
For more, please visit The Moral Injury Project web page.