Giving Compass' Take:

• Susanna Rosa Durao Nhancale and researchers at the Living Without the Moon Foundation use music to address the effect of losing a parent in early childhood.

• How can the use art and technology change philanthropy? What other unconventional methods can be implemented in your own giving?

• Read more about the impact of music in philanthropy.

We have studied lots and lots of infancies. Losing a mother or a father is a much more dangerous experience, than what we could possibly think of.

In 2009, a system was created, based on our work, that has not only mapped the phenomenon of the early paternal loss, but has created its relation system, between the professions of: social, therapeutic, research and creative art.

We are aware, that the years spent in intense grief, create shocking psychological situations. Music helps to bare, interpret and to digest this in an unprecedented way.  This work is a culture-historical investment, the ceremonial action plan of the childhood loss crisis experience, in what music gives the base of everything, and technology provides the conditions of the grand realization.

The LivingWithoutTheMoon brand has built a musical ecosystem worldwide in which the collection and the curatorial support of music, a new approach to studio work and the new technology for transmission provides the originality. All this artistic and engineering specification preserves the basic experience of a Mother being irreplaceable from the point of view of a child, so the of loss is final right from the first day however LWTM intends to offer an outstanding support among the processes that accompany the experience of loss.

Read the full article about pioneering mental-health care with music by Susanna Rosa Durao Nhancale at Medium.