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.

Ambition is about living life as an art of devotion to the Process and Pattern, making reality more beautiful with your participation than it would be without it.
from Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto by River Kenna
redefining success
I don’t think that humans can really move forward into whatever’s coming for us next without facing what we’ve done to our home and each other. Such a reckoning includes the beauty, joy, and community found in crisis, as well as the pain. The sociologist Donna Haraway calls this “staying with the trouble.”
from Manjula Martin Tells Us
loving the process
"If you already live a comfortable life, then choosing to make more money but live a worse daily life is a bad trade.

And yet, we talk ourselves into it all the time. We take promotions that pay more, but swallow our free time. We already have a successful business, but we break ourselves trying to make it even more successful.

Too much focus on we... See more
from 3-2-1: What top performers do, and how to deal with critics and detractors
loving the process
"I don't know where I'm going, but I know exactly how to get there."

I recently heard this quote from Boyd Varty. It spoke to me, because one of my greatest fears is not getting to where I want to be. Not because I don't think I'll get there, but because I don't know where "there" is. I don't know what I want to be , do or accomplish . I don't know ... See more
from What's in my NOW? — Larissa Fernandes
what do i want?
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
from Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground by Georgina Reid
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loving the process and physics & philosophy
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
BRIAN ENO

So what you see when you watch someone surfing is they take control momentarily, to situate themselves on a wave, and then they surrender. They’re carried along by it, and then they take control again, and then they surrender. I think that’s a very good analogy of what we do throughout our lives, actually. We’re constantly moving between t... See more
surrendering
“I’m just thinking that ... nobody goes for a walk without there being something that supports that walk outside of ourselves. And that maybe we have a false idea that the able-bodied person is somehow radically self-sufficient.”
from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

from Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto by River Kenna

from Manjula Martin Tells Us

from 3-2-1: What top performers do, and how to deal with critics and detractors

from What's in my NOW? — Larissa Fernandes

from Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground by Georgina Reid

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell