Graham Music: Why Pregnancy and Prenatal Life are so important

Summary

Fri 27th June

13.00 – 15.00

Join us for a talk which will explore what we need to know about the experiences of both being pregnant and being a foetus and why they are so vitally important for every single one of us.

Graham will explore the latest scientific findings on pregnancy and the incredible life of the foetus, and consider how does life before birth shape later development. We will see how mother and baby can bond whilst sharing one body, and how a tiny foetus actively learns from the environment it is inhabiting. We will see how pregnancy, and even parents lives before conception, sculpt a baby’s; lifelong health, for example via the mother’s ancestral inheritances, diet, stress levels, and emotional state.

The talk will link together therapeutic insights, real-life stories and new science to show how life in the womb can enhance a child’s potential, and how it is essential for providing the best possible start for babies, long before their birth.

About Graham:

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 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: (2024, 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 (2022).