A one-day or two-day CPD workshop for mental health practitioners on working with moral injury using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a contextual behavioural science framework.

About the Workshop

Moral injury arises when a person participates in, witnesses, or fails to prevent events that violate their deeply held moral beliefs — or when they experience betrayal by those in authority. It produces a distinctive pattern of shame, guilt, anger, and moral distress that differs from PTSD in important ways, and which standard trauma protocols do not always address directly.

This workshop provides practitioners with a clear, clinically applicable framework for identifying and working with moral injury, drawing on ACT's six core processes and contextual behavioural science. It is practical, experiential, and focused on direct clinical application rather than theory alone.

This workshop has previously been delivered for the BABCP. View the BABCP event listing

Who This Is For

The workshop is designed for qualified practitioners with existing knowledge of CBT or ACT who work with presentations where moral injury may be present. Moral injury is not limited to occupational or institutional contexts, although those contexts are commonplace, but it can arise in any situation where a person has participated in, witnessed, or believes themselves to have failed to prevent something that violated their moral beliefs, or experienced a profound betrayal of trust. Practitioners working across general mental health, trauma, relationships, bereavement, and complex presentations may all encounter it.

The training may be particularly relevant for those working with military veterans, emergency services, healthcare professionals, and others in high-stakes roles, but it is designed for the broader practitioner audience rather than specialists in any single population.

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What the Workshop Covers

One-day format (6 CPD hours)

• Moral injury: definition, prevalence, and distinction from PTSD and depression

• Why standard trauma protocols can be insufficient and sometimes counterproductive for moral injury

• ACT's six core processes applied to moral injury presentations

• Working with shame, guilt, and moral distress using defusion and self-as-context

• Values-based work for reconnection and committed action

• Case vignettes, experiential exercises, and clinical discussion

 

Two-day format (12 CPD hours)

All one-day content plus significantly extended experiential practice, role play, and skills consolidation. Recommended for practitioners wanting to integrate this work into ongoing clinical practice.

Format and Delivery

• Live online via Zoom or in person by arrangement

• Available as scheduled open cohorts or commissioned for organisations and CPD providers

• Includes slide deck, experiential exercises, case vignettes, and reference materials

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Fees

Open cohort pricing and commissioned rates are available on enquiry.

Enquiries

To enquire about upcoming cohorts, commissioned delivery, or bespoke arrangements please get in touch.
 

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