The Moral Injury Project
A place for language, reflection, and honest engagement with what remains after impossible decisions, unresolved responsibility, and the moral cost of service.
Moral injury is not simply stress, burnout, or exhaustion.
It is the deeper wound that comes when conscience is violated by what someone has done, witnessed, could not prevent, or had done to them. It requires truth, witness, and space to reckon with what cannot be easily undone.
This work is for those carrying moral weight.
Written especially for people who carry the cost of service, leadership, care, and difficult decisions.
- Disaster responders
- Clergy and chaplains
- Spiritual care providers
- Healthcare and care professionals
- Public servants
- Nonprofit leaders
- Anyone carrying unresolved moral weight
People need more than strategies to cope. They need language. They need witness.
This project brings together disaster response, pastoral care, public theology, and lived experience to name these realities truthfully.
Training, speaking, and collaboration.
The Moral Injury Project offers presentations, workshops, and conversations for organizations and communities navigating the realities of moral injury in their work.
Topics include moral injury in disaster response, spiritual care after moral rupture, recognizing signs of moral injury in the field, and sustaining humanity in helping professions.
- 60–90 minute keynote presentations
- Half-day or full-day workshops
- Multi-session training series
- In-person or virtual formats
Rev. Gregory C. Smith, PhD
Rev. Gregory C. Smith, PhD, is a pastor, author, and leader in disaster spiritual care with decades of experience accompanying individuals and communities in the aftermath of crisis.
He has served with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance since 2011 and as a spiritual care specialist since 2015, supporting local responses, national deployments, responder care, and disaster spiritual care training.
His writing brings together theology, narrative, and field experience to explore moral injury as it is actually lived by responders, survivors, clergy, and those navigating the cost of service.
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