The Lie We’re Sold
This isn't only about injured workers. It's about YOU - the professionals caught in this system too.
Safety at work is paramount - until it isn’t.
We’re told workers’ compensation is a safety net.
That if we’re hurt at work - physically, psychologically - the system will catch us.
Help us heal.
Uphold our rights.
That’s the promise.
That’s the public message.
But the reality?
Couldn’t be further from the truth.
Behind the brochures and corporate spin is a brutal machine.
A system that punishes the injured, gaslights the vulnerable, and turns suffering into spreadsheets.
People go to work to earn a living - not to lose their lives or their minds.
But workplaces have become some of the most dangerous places on earth.
The system also completely traumatizes those in helping professions, trying to care for those injured. Instead they too are morally injured. Ethics and values collide. The system is not what it projects it is.. and those on the inside, know that to be true.
Heal Your Professional Moral Injury
And when you're injured?
The so-called "hospital of care" is anything but.
This isn't just about injured workers. It's about YOU - the professionals caught in this system.
Workers’ compensation is a finance system pretending to be healthcare.
Conceived over a century ago - and that's exactly where it belongs.
Dated.
Cruel.
Abusive.
Everyone knows it’s broken. But no one is brave enough to fix it.
This system doesn’t heal.
It hunts.
It surveils people in therapy.
Delays treatment until injuries worsen.
Forces you to prove your pain again and again - to those paid to deny it.
Cry for help, and you’re not met with care.
You’re met with suspicion.
Investigations.
Cut-offs.
Silence.
You become the problem.
This isn’t care.
It’s cruelty in a suit and tie.
I've read the reports. Seen the shattered families.
This isn’t a system that’s failing - it’s a system designed to break people.
The hypocrisy is unbearable.
The billboard says: We’re here to support you.
Reality whispers: You are to blame.
People are dying.
By suicide.
By despair.
By slow bureaucratic torture.
And still - they pretend it’s working.
Let’s be clear:
A system that injures the people it claims to protect isn’t a safety net.
It’s a trap.
And we’re done pretending it’s anything else.
For those working within this system, the toll is real. The conflict between what you have been trained to provide and want to provide and, what the system allows creates a professional wound, what we call "moral injury."
About Kathie
Transform how you navigate a broken system while preserving your professional integrity.
Understand I am on a mission, to change this harm… The Moral Injury Training features only my own story and 6 International Case studies of other morally injurious events. The film has now been sold to the Australian Rehabilitation Providers Association and will be screened to over 2000 providers Australia wide.
Enquire now to organize a screening for your professional association - Australia wide and Internationally. The film focuses on leadership in systems, health, employer obligations, government policy, law, rehabilitation, workplace safety, bullying, gender, informed consent, mental health, suicide prevention, economic abuse, harassment and institutional betrayal. Learn how to become a morally healthy workplace and stamp out these destructive behaviors.
Why Professionals Need This Training
Reconcile ethical conflicts between professional oaths and system demands
Develop language to articulate the distress you've silently carried
Learn practical approaches to advocate effectively within system limitations
Protect yourself from burnout and professional disillusionment
Earn meaningful CPD that genuinely transforms your practice
What Others Are Saying
To the producers and team behind Shattered Moral Injury Training,
Thank you for creating one of the most honest and confronting portrayals of the workers compensation and return-to-work system in NSW. As a health professional with over 30 years of experience in this space, Shattered Moral Injury Training gave language and form to a layer of distress I have carried but could never articulate.
Watching this documentary was like holding a mirror to the work I’ve done for decades—highlighting the deep systemic issues that don’t just harm injured workers, but leave clinicians like me feeling morally compromised, professionally disillusioned, and emotionally exhausted.
I have always felt like I carried enormous responsibility with no authority, watching clients go around in circles while “client-centred care” was reduced to buzzwords that disappeared under the weight of regulatory interpretations and insurer limitations.
Hosting a recent podcast conversation on moral injury helped me begin to understand these experiences. But it was Shattered Moral Injury Training that made the full impact land. Every story in the documentary triggered memories of other clients, other cases, other moments where I swallowed my own distress in order to keep going. And the snowball of those memories has made one thing very clear:
It’s not us. It’s the system.
I strongly recommend that every person entering into any insurance-based return-to-work scheme—whether as a clinician, insurer, case manager, employer, lawyer, or regulator should be required to watch this film as part of their onboarding or ongoing supervision. THis is an excellent use of our mandatory CPD
It’s time we stopped burning out our clinicians and started repairing some of the damage we’re doing often through ignorance. And as the law reminds us, ignorance is no defence.
Thank you for holding up the mirror so many of us have avoided. Your work is more than a documentary, it’s a catalyst.
Warm regards,
Jo Muirhead
Rehabilitation Counsellor | Supervisor | Host of The Entrepreneurial Clinician Podcast
“Every person who is involved in the workers compensation system, from the makers of laws and policy to those in the administration of claims processes and any related stakeholder, including lawyers, NEEDS to watch this Moral Injury Training. Far too often lawyers in particular attend compulsory professional development courses that are a tick a box exercise for their yearly accreditation, but how often do they really attend meaningful and critical training that can make a REAL difference in their work such as this?
Let's stop beating around the bush, the NSW Workers Compensation scheme is further harming, not helping, injured workers. Those who have not wised up to this fact are simply uneducated or in denial. Every single person with a stake in the scheme, needs to take action to prevent the continuation of this harm.
To lawyers in particular - I am calling you all out, I was one of you. Drop your ego, watch this training with true purpose, and really think about whether your work in this domain is upholding the oath or affirmation you took when you were sworn in as a lawyer or whether your are treading dangerously close or in fact crossed that line with some those "Solicitors Rules" you are bound by working within this scheme.
We all of course know about our duty to our client but ask yourself are you truly adhering to your overriding duty - to the Court - when you are conducting yourself either as a plaintiff or defendant lawyer in this system? The disgraceful, unethical and down right inhumane tactics I have experienced within the administration of my claim calls into question this very overriding duty - to not mislead a Court.
Law used to be a proud profession based on procedural fairness and justice. Right now in workers compensation and personal injury law, it seems it is based on who can play the dirtiest game for the longest time. Now is the time to course correct, let's not continue to harm but instead really wake up and be conscious of the true suffering that is occurring within the workers compensation system. Wake up and let's not repeat the same mistakes with future generations.”
Sharni Sinclair
Criminal Lawyer/Injured Worker
“There has been sufficient National Press coverage of the financial disaster ascribed to NSW SIRA/i-care system, but it is only through the Dramatisation of Kathie’s story that we get to understand how the polarisation of political factions and self-interest at any expense which has broken a system designed to support injured workers shattering so many lives.
Kathie’s story is the most appalling of all the stories I have heard arising from working in 4 different workers compensation jurisdictions over 35 years.”
Heather Budd
Return To Work Co-Ordinator
Don't be another casualty of a broken system. This training isn't just education, it's professional preservation.
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