Course Information

One of the most important elements of trauma work for anyone working with children and young people is the need to provide safety and a secure environment for the work and the onwards journey together towards recovery. However, this can sometimes come with risk. There could be a danger in prioritising this safety over finding the courage at the right time to explore the darker, deeper places where the pain has taken root and now resides. Bravely co-exploring these areas of challenge can often be the essential work required for that child or young person to then be able to go on to live a richer and more emotionally restored life - but how do we know when is the right time to venture into the dark?

In this training, Graham will be looking at child trauma with a fresh lens and exploring what we, as practitioners and professionals or parents and carers, may need to consider within ourselves in order to be brave in our interventions with children and young people. Graham will be thinking about the information our bodies can give us in these moments, and ways to identify the clues - so often easily missed - that might guide our approaches and response to our clients, needs, as well as signal the clients, own process and reactions. Graham will propose the idea of being a nervous system whisperer; for our clients, where we can start to make sense of somatic body-to-body experience, and identify when a child might be ready and able to face those deeper, darker roots of the pain, and when not.

Suitable for:

This course is suitable for therapists and professionals working with children and young adults who have experienced trauma.

About the Trainer

Graham Music is a psychotherapist, trainer, author and supervisor. He is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre where he has worked for over 20 years, and he has been adult Psychotherapist for about 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 speciality for decades is 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 Nurturing Natures: (2023, 2016, 2010), Respark; Igniting Hope and Joy after trauma and depression (2022), Affect and Emotion (2022, 2001), Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Hope (2019), The Good Life: (2014) as well as co-editing From Trauma to Harming Others (2021) 

Training Course Cancellation Policy

Substitutions are welcome up until the date of the course.
Adoptionplus reserves the right to levy the following charges in the event of cancellation:

• More than six weeks prior to the event – 25% of the fee
• Between four and six weeks prior to the event – 50% of the fee
• Cancellations less than four weeks before the date of the event are non-refundable