Hosted by Moral Injury Support Network for Servicewomen, Inc. This is the premier international moral injury conference and continuing education event in the world! Thought leaders and researchers in the fields of psychology, chaplaincy, social work, public health, and others will gather in Atlanta, GA for this top-notch event!

Who is this conference for?

Are you a psychologist, social worker, licensed professional counselor, nurse, public health practitioner, or chaplain? The 2023 Comprehensive Moral Injury Conference (CMIC) will help bridge the gap in knowledge by presenting introductory and intermediate level instruction on MI research, assessment tools, and interventions being used by thought leaders and practitioners. This conference takes a holistic, collaborative approach to MI. Regardless of where clinicians, chaplains, and therapists work, they are likely to encounter a person with MI and should understand how to identify it, as well as help the person or get them the care they need.

What is moral injury?

Moral Injury is a condition being talked about with more frequency. In 2009, it was Brett Litz who brought this condition to the forefront. He described moral injury as involving acts of transgression that create dissonance and conflict because it violates assumptions and beliefs about what is right and wrong and personal goodness. Moral injury is a syndrome that often occurs in the setting of trauma, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but MI is distinct and separate from PTSD” (Dr. Harold Koenig, Select Proceedings Book from the 2020 Women Veterans Military Moral Injury Conference).

Warfare, violent uprisings, COVID-19, and social justice issues have wreaked havoc on people’s souls and emotional health. Many are feeling morally injured and it is chaplains and faith leaders, psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, doctors, and nurses who are standing in the gap and treating these injured people. In the process, many of these care providers are also experiencing moral injury.

Up to 12 continuing education contact hours

This conference is approved for Board of Chaplaincy Certification, Inc.

This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886837521-3162) for 12 continuing education contact hours.

This conference is approved by the Georgia Psychological Association for 13 credit hours. Due to American Psychological Association standards, psychologists must attend in person to receive continuing education credit.

This activity has been submitted to the American Holistic Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The American Holistic Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Location and dates

The conference will take place June 6-8, 2023 at the Hilton Peachtree City Atlanta Hotel and Conference Center. This will be a hybrid event with all main presentations live streamed for those who cannot attend in person.

After you register for the conference, you can reserve your hotel room by clicking on this link: Room Booking, or call 1-800-Hiltons (1-800-445-8667), use booking code MISN.

Registering

Attend in person, network with other professionals, and interact with sponsors to get the full benefits of the conference. Individual tickets are $300, but we are running a Memorial Day special and if your purchase by May 29th you get a ticket for 1/2 price! Use “Memorial Day” discount code when you register.

Or, you can save money on flights and lodging by attending the conference virtually, seeing the presentations on Zoom and receiving continuing education credit. The price for an individual virtual ticket is $350, but the Memorial Day special is in effect so you get half price. Use “Memorial Day” discount code when you register.

*All tickets include a 7% refundable service fee.

To register, go to: Registration Page.

Brochure

2023-CMIC-Brochure-v5 Download

Points of Contact

For questions about registering, contact Andrea Eubanks, Director of Operations at aeubanks@chaplainconsultants.com.

For other questions about the conference, contact Dr. Daniel L. Roberts at droberts@chaplainconsultants.com or 910-701-0306.

* Gold Sponsor

Great Philosophical Problems | ThinkTank

MISSION STATEMENT⚕️

GPP THINKTANK |
Our mission is the unifying definition of the moral injury construct to address suicide in veteran, and wider civilian populations. The provision of a universal lexicon that can articulate “moral grammar” for the epoch-defining emergence, and psychological articulation, of Moral Injury.

Collaboration with international centers of excellence, including the International Centre for Moral Injury and United States War College, Washington.

Moral Injury is a disruption to the psyche from the will to truth that has become conscious of itself as a problem in us. Deeply embedded substructure psychologies, that for the West emerge over two thousand years as synchronous psychological concomitants of the Christ-figure. For to be sure, Nietzsche would have agreed with Jung when he says; “man can suffer only a certain amount of culture without injury.”

Great Philosophical Problems ThinkTank will articulate a Moral Grammar derived from Friedrich Nietzsche. A lexicon obtained from a cipher the author embedded in his works that utilizes the power of the A-E-I-O-U Bible method and Vedanta-philosophy. A way suffers can form a relationship with the four main questions for the Christian psyche concerning strength in the inner being; what is the Breadth and Length and Height and Depth?

While soldiers provide the coal face psychology for Moral Injury today, just as PTSD before, such a assignation will not be restricted to such cohorts. Moral Injury represents the great difficulty looming for the contemporary Western consciousness, where not only the rationality of millennia – but also its madness, breaks out in us – where dangerous is it to be an heir.

Silver Sponsors

Transformations Mending Fences is a nationally accredited and licensed residential mental health and substance abuse facility located on 400+ acres of farmland in beautiful North Florida. At Transformations, we offer The Help For Our Heroes program, an integrated treatment model designed specifically for military veterans and first responders to support care for mental health, post-traumatic stress, and substance abuse. Our integrated team of providers, equine, music, and whole-health specialists, along with Veteran peer support teaches our Veterans skills to improve their physical, mental, and emotional wellness to go on and live the lives they deserve.

Bronze Sponsors

Holy Cross Catholic Church Atlanta

In 2008, Holy Cross Catholic Church established a Troop Support Ministry to send CARE packages to our troops overseas. Over the past 15 years, our Ministry has sent more than 4300 personal care/goody boxes to deployed Service Members, and has honored our living and deceased Veterans with annual Masses and tokens of appreciation. We encourage other faith communities to find similar ways to support our troops and Veterans.

Because of the incredible generosity of the people of Holy Cross, we have expanded our mission to include monthly donations for legitimate veterans/military charities. Among those we donate to are Fisher House, Gary Sinise Foundation, the USO etc. In December we donate to Army Emergency Relief, Air Force Aid Society and Navy-Marine Corps Relief.

Sponsors are incredibly important to any conference. The 2023 Comprehensive Moral Injury Conference, sponsored by Great Philosophical Problems Think Tank is the premier international moral injury conference in the world! Sponsoring organizations will place their products and services in front of hundreds of medical doctors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, chaplains, and licensed counselors. We offer multiple levels of sponsorship. To discuss these options, contact Dr. Daniel L. Roberts at droberts@chaplainconsultants.com.