Final reflection on my experience in the Lullaby project

The Lullaby project has been a compelling experience that has not only challenged
me as a musician but also as a human being. The project itself has been touching,
thought-provoking, and has made me discover many things from a personal and
professional perspective, giving me a new vision of how broad the musical field is.
My expectations for this course changed when Monique introduced this mothers-
oriented project. My expectation was more focused on the performative musical
field. However, I found myself in the middle of a process of accompaniment for
mothers who have gone through the trauma of being vulnerable before such a
decisive moment as a childbirth.
This same process involved readings, conversations, personal and collective
reflections, written work, and meditations on these topics that no longer had
anything to do with the competitive musical field, but rather a confrontation of fears
and traumas seen through the experience of other people.
Many of the readings led me to understand that like those mothers, I also have
traumas, have done my best to go through them and continue with my life. That
experience got me close to the scary vulnerability that we all try to avoid in the
western world.
From my perspective, three song-making sessions in half an hour and a half are
not enough for the creation of a song. this entails work outside of the class, but I
consider that it is not enough for both the mother and the musicians to create a
piece that satisfies all the expectations for both parts.
Aside from this, I believe that this project will grow and expand soon. It is a
beautiful and rewarding work that deserves to be shared with many more mothers,
students, and new families.
I hope that it will not remain as a story of a course that I took at Carnegie Mellon,
but the project that potentially started my social work in the United States, or any
part of the world.