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8MM+ watched Meditation won’t fix Burnout, its about Moral Injury

Wackfulness·Mindful Leader·Mar 16, 2019· 2 minutes
By Mo Edjlali, Mindful Leader's President and Chief Community Organizer
 
From Dr. Zubin Damania's Viral Video:
 

Burnout is a kind of victim shaming…
Maybe you should meditate… it’s all bulls@#t…
We’re not suffering from burnout…
We’re surfing from “Moral injury”…

When I watched this video it left me excited and defensive.  Wait a minute… our organization encourages meditation into the workplace.   We talk about resilience, promote wellness, and try to help people and organizations with burnout… what does this mean?  Feels like he is trashing the work we promote while making some good points.  

Over 8 Million people watched this video, it’s going viral.  What Dr. Z is saying here I think relates to more than just health care profession and we all need to tune in.  

 

What is Moral Injury? Below is a good short description. 
 

“The mechanism of Moral Injury is the transgression of deeply held beliefs or expectations perpetrated by an authority. Because humans depend for survival on membership, in and validation by family and tribe, the cognitive dissonance between reality and the perception of what should be, can be extremely deleterious. “ Source: https://participatorymedicine.org/2016/healing-moral-injury-in-health-care/

 
Does this apply to more than veterans and healthcare professionals?  How do we react?  On this topic, I think there is much more to come.