Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

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The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
loving the process
I used to have these elaborate theories that maybe there was something about the movement of the body and the water that magically sparked a deeper consciousness. But I’ve really come to realize the obvious thing, which is that these are simply the most unburdened spaces in my life, the moments in which I have the greatest uninterrupted intimacy wi... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.

We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
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from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
building a new world
environmental psychology
from Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places | The On Being Project by Esther Sternberg
building my own language library
It’s hard to see history when you’re in the middle of it, harder still to distinguish Swift’s impact on the culture from her celebrity, which emits so much light it can be blinding. But something unusual is happening with Swift, without a contemporary precedent. She deploys the most efficient medium of the day—the pop song—to tell her story. Yet ov... See more
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
I think that one of the things, again, my son has been such a blessing to me over the past couple of years because I think that is an example of I almost missed him. I was so focused on solving him and preparing the path for him with his ADHD and his challenges there that I was exerting my efficacy on his life, and I almost didn’t know him. And he’... See more
from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238
Life and
So what we see is that self-actualization is a flywheel: you become self-actualized by seeing reality clearly so you can design a life that fits you, and you become better at seeing reality by engaging with it head-on.
from Henrik Karlsson | Substack by Henrik Karlsson
designing a life
“beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests.”
from Dating After Divorce Wasn't What They Said It'd Be — Gloria
power structures and dynamics

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova

from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia

from Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places | The On Being Project by Esther Sternberg

from TIME's Person of the Year 2023

from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238

from Henrik Karlsson | Substack by Henrik Karlsson

from Dating After Divorce Wasn't What They Said It'd Be — Gloria