The Soul Repair Center
The Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School seeks to acknowledge and alleviate the pain of moral injury in individuals and society through education and community engagement.
Learn more about the Moral Injury Certificate Program (MICP)
Registration deadline: August 31, 2026
Course Duration: September 7 – November 18
Course Fee --
- without continuing education (CE) hours: $800-$1000 sliding scale
- with continuing education (CE) hours: $850-$1050 sliding scale
30 continuing education (CE) hours offered for chaplaincy or social work*
Check the MICP Fall 2026 schedule for live sessions to ensure you are able to attend live session times (required for CE hours and certificate)
MICP is an introductory course that provides a foundation for participants’ understanding of moral injury, moral distress, and strategies for recovery and care that draw on multiple disciplines and praxes. Dedicated to collective experiences and approaches to care, MICP’s content and learning modality are premised on peer learning and peer support. Students are expected to join with an ethos of beginner’s mind and shared expertise, whatever their years of experience with moral injury.
Course content draws from research and work in multiple disciplines, including social work, psychology, spiritual care, mental health support, religion, and arts and healing. Students will develop competency for developing and implementing peer support strategies for processing distressful experiences as a means of facilitating moral repair and building moral resilience.
What is the time commitment for the MICP?
Student must attend all live sessions and commit about 5 hours a week to the course.
How is the course structured?
This 50-hour course comprises synchronous and asynchronous elements:
Synchronous sessions: 9 hours of group discussions in peer learning cohorts (including opening and closing sessions), 12 hours of practicum sessions, and capstone presentation sessions (see live session schedule)
Independent asynchronous study: 9 hours of lecture videos, 20 hours of readings, and development of a capstone project
Students are also expected to display a willingness and openness to engaging in a peer learning, interdisciplinary space with peers from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
A certificate of completion is awarded to students who fulfill all requirements of the course, including attendance of all live sessions and submission of a capstone project; 30 continuing education (CE) hours in chaplaincy or social work are provided for those who register at the CE rates.
Is the course online or in-person?
The course is entirely online, so stable internet access is required. Students will also need access to a video camera devise for Zoom meetings and a willingness to access the course platform, Teachable.
Define Moral Injury
Define moral injury from various disciplines and for populations of interest; describe risk factors using relevant scales and data; relay effective practices for addressing moral injury.
Best Practices for Recovery
Explain evidence-based programs for recovery; demonstrate skills for recovery, tailored for specific populations; identify strategies using arts, rituals, spiritual practices, group processes; peer support models in recovery processes.
Integrative Capstone Project
Self-directed final project (could be a variety of modalities) that demonstrates conceptual understanding and application of moral injury recovery strategies to one's context (populations served, research, community, etc.)
Moral Injury Certificate Program
The Moral Injury Certificate Program (MICP) is a one-of-a-kind, multidisciplinary online course with a focus on moral repair and moral resilience.
Since its inception in 2012, the Soul Repair Center has offered public education and conducted research on moral injury, enabling members of the public and their communities to support recovery from moral injury.
The Soul Repair Center’s emerging vision is to normalize, rather than pathologize, the affective responses associated with moral injury—loss, lament, outrage, shame, and distrust—as signs of moral health and potential catalysts for reparative action. This shift requires pushing beyond clinical frameworks to contextualize individuals within the severely wounded and wounding elements of the collective moral fabric: institutions and systems that demand complicity in practices that violate articulated values.
What is Moral Injury?
Moral injury has been classically defined as “a betrayal of what’s right by someone who holds legitimate authority in a high‑stakes situation”[1] and as the “lasting psychological, biological, spiritual, behavioral, and social impact of perpetrating, failing to prevent, bearing witness to, or learning about acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations.”[2] Definitions and applications of moral injury have proliferated since these two conceptual landmarks were developed.
Dr. Michael Yandell, Director of the Soul Repair Center, defines moral injury as despair of the world and oneself.
While early work on moral injury centered primarily on combat veterans, cases of moral injury are found in diverse fields, including healthcare, law enforcement, social services, and faith communities, as well as in communities impacted by systemic racism, economic exploitation, and other structural injustices.
[1] Shay, Jonathan. “Moral Injury.” Psychoanalytic Psychology 31, no. 2 (2014): 182–91.
[2] Brett T. Litz et al., “Moral Injury and Moral Repair in War Veterans: A Preliminary Model and Intervention Strategy,” Clinical Psychology Review 29, no. 8 (2009): 695–706.
[3] Michael S. Yandell, War and Negative Revelation : A Theoethical Reflection on Moral Injury (Lexington Books, 2022).
"I despair of the moral world when I realize that what the world calls right and good diminishes and degrades life; I despair of myself when I realize I have diminished and degraded life in accordance with what I thought was right and good."
- Dr. Michael Yandell, Director of the Soul Repair Center
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