This is an interview for Peader Kirk who was researching ideas for a theatre production showing in Germany and the Uk, and part of this interview was shown in the production

This was an interview with the founder of BABBU, a start-up offering pioneering digital childcare products, but this was an overview of our understandings of the impact of early development

A short clip from an interview with Jane O'Rourke about the brain and trauma

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This clip is part of a longer video interview with Jane O'Rourke some yea focusing on themes such as the impact of Neglect

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This is a video of a podcast interview with the great Dr Dave of Shrinkrap Radio discussing my book Respark, Igniting Hope and Joy after Trauma and Depression and other things

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Dr Music will examine how early experiences, secure attachments, and safe environments can lead to more altruistic, prosocial, and empathic ways of acting while stress, trauma, and neglect can lead to more aggression, callousness, and antisocial behaviour. He will examine what current research and clinical understandings can teach us about living a Good Life. Why might we, and the children or adults, act selfishly and antisocially? Are we born selfish or cooperative and what might sway us in either direction? How do both stress-inducing family contexts and competitive social and economic environments undermine our capacity to feel safe, experience well-being, or care much for ourselves or others? How does a consumerist, materialist ethos, as well as the challenges posed by the cyber-age and increasingly speeded up lives have an impact? This talk will draw on lessons from developmental science, neurobiology, psychoanalysis, and mindfulness to examine the links between feeling good and being good, and generally ponder the Good Life.

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Dr Graham Music, PhD is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre and an adult Psychotherapist in private practice. Formerly Associate Clinical Director of the Tavistock Clinic’s Child and Family Department, he works at the Portman as a forensic psychotherapist, and his clinical experience has for decades been mainly with trauma. He has developed and managed a range of services working with the aftermath of child maltreatment and neglect. 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 Children: From Trauma to Hope (2019), Nurturing Natures: (2016, 2010), Affect and Emotion (2001), The Good Life: (2014), and the forthcoming Resparking (2022), as well as co-editing From Trauma to Harming Others (2021), and shortly his new book Resparking will come out shortly.

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As part of the Creating a Compassionate World interview series, Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, President of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (compassionatemind.co.uk) interviews Dr Graham Music (www.nurturingnatures.co.uk)

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This is an interview about play and playfulness. It gives a flavour of my take on play, why play is so vital, why it sometimes does not develop, links between stress, trauma and lack of play, how we can help facilitate play, in therapy and in life, and the ways in which contemporary society and its pressures as well as the pandemic, have affected opportunities for play and creativity that children and adults so badly need

This video interview was done for Clearsky Childrens Charity,
'Clear Sky is a Children's Charity based in Oxfordshire. It was established in 2010 to provide Play and Creative Arts therapeutic services to children and families.

Clear Sky supports professionals through a suite of face-to-face and online Attachment Play programmes and also offers an online membership CPD platform 'The Institute for Play and Attachment', providing practitioners with access to high quality expert learning and development.

More information can be found on the website at www.clear-sky.org.uk '

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