AI-generated image: Anne Kristine Arbon using ChatGPT (OpenAI), 2026. Oil-painting-style illustration of a woman facing a locked cupboard overflowing with papers in a damaged organisational setting, symbolising pain that an organisation has tried to contain rather than address.
We already talk about stress, burnout, wellbeing and resilience. Do we really need another term? Someone may not simply be exhausted by the amount of work. They may have been asked to act against their values, prevented from doing what they believe is right, or left to witness harm they could not stop? Sometimes the organisation they trusted has betrayed the very values it asked them to uphold? That is different. It may look like stress or burnout from the outside, but the damage can reach further: into conscience, identity and trust. This is where the idea of moral injury helps. Continue reading