Keynote: Dr Graham Music, Psychotherapist, Trainer, Lecturer & Author

Dr Graham Music, Psychotherapist, Trainer, Lecturer & Author

Respark: Working with clients who seem shut-down and hard to engage 

Dr Graham Music will introduce ways of understanding and working with more shut-down states. He will introduce some key concepts such as about 'spark', energy. nervous system whispering and the embodied countertransference. He will then go on to think about the profound effects of emotional neglect and the kind of lifelessness that can arise from this. Next, he will look at numbing after trauma,  which can seem similar in terms of lifelessness to neglect but have different aetiology and require different therapeutic techniques. He will use clinical examples, video clips and combine new science and psychotherapeutic understandings to suggest what can help to shift people from ‘desparked’, lifeless, un-energised states.  

Graham will outline some key concepts that can help us in working with this group of people. These include:

• why energy and spark are so important
• why we need to be body-aware
• why we need to become ‘nervous-system whisperers’
• how we can galvanise hope and become a ‘life-giver’ and
• why we need courage to work effectively with this group.

Meet Dr Graham Music
Graham Music is a psychotherapist, trainer, author and supervisor. He was a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre where he has worked for over 25 years, and he has been adult Psychotherapist for over  35 years. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock Clinic’s Child and Family Department, he has developed many innovative programs, including setting up services in over 40 schools and a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect. His clinical specialty for decades been understanding and working with trauma. He supervises and teaches nationally and internationally and has a particular interest in linking cutting-edge developmental findings with therapeutic practice.  His publications include  Womb Life (2024), Nurturing Natures: (2023, 2016, 2010), Respark (2022), Affect and Emotion (2022, 2001),  Nurturing Children (2019), The Good Life:  (2014) and he co-edited From Trauma to Harming Others (2022).

Visit Graham's website - http://www.nurturingminds.co.uk/

Find Graham on LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-music-nurturing-natures