The song becomes the witness your experience has been waiting for.

Introduction

Welcome

The world gives us very few places where it’s safe to be completely vulnerable in expressing our true experiences.  This is not a course about performing, becoming someone different, or telling other people your story . This is a private place where you can faithfully receive your own experience, discover language that rings true, and allow that experience to be reflected back through the resonance of song. Sometimes, when we share our story with someone else, they focus on something different from what we intended. Even with the best intentions, they may miss the part of the story that mattered most to us. The Sound of Being Witnessed gives us a way to capture our experience with precision, allowing us to hear and recognize the many layers of our own feelings. When we hear our experience reflected back through a song in a musical style that personally resonates with us, something meaningful happens. We feel heard, recognized, and, in a very personal way, honored. The goal is not to relive your past. The goal is to change your relationship with what you have already lived. To live a life by design. This course can help you get there. This course helps you find words that ring true to your experience and through the music, you can hear your own experience reflected back and feel acknowledged in what you have lived. The best part is that ChatGPT can help you find words so easily, your job is to decide whether those words ring true.

What You’ll Need

• A computer, laptop, or smartphone with an internet connection
• A ChatGPT account (the free version works)
• A Suno account (the free version works)

The course will guide you throughout with simple copy and paste prompts for using ChatGPT and Suno, including getting started with your accounts. There are easy to follow tutorials on each, Chatgbt and Suno. No experience necessary.

The Journey Ahead

Welcome to Your Factory of Life

In this course, we use a factory as a simple way to picture how we take in life’s experiences, process what we feel, and turn those feelings into lyrics. Imagine yourself as a living factory. You are the CEO. You cannot control everything life brings, but you can learn to choose how you respond. Why a factory?  It gives us a way to picture what is happening inside us. You’ll notice sensations in your body and find words for what you feel. ChatGPT will help you stay on track and turn those words into lyrics. The course will guide you all the way.  You do not need to know exactly what you are feeling to begin. Even “I don’t know what I feel” can become a meaningful song. There are no wrong answers about what it feels like to be you. Follow the modules in order, using the PDFs for copy and paste prompts and tutorials videos. Each step will guide you through what to do. Choose one experience and take it through the steps. Then repeat the process with another experience, just that simple. It all has a place here in your Factory of Life.

Before We Begin

Below each video will be a downloadable pdfs. These will contain prompts to copy and paste, tips I learned to make minor adjustments to the stage in the process. I will have a sample of writing a song in the process just incase it feels intimidating for someone who feels they haven’t a creative bone in their bodies. You can do it! There are a few things I want you to know. You are the world’s leading expert on what it feels like to be you. No one else has the authority to tell you what your body experienced. Your experience deserves acknowledgment, even when someone else sees things differently. Their agreement is not required. You can keep your story and your songs private. Information you enter into ChatGPT or Suno is subject to those services’ privacy practices. This is explained a bit more in the software tutorials.  Let’s get started!