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.

this year, and beyond, i will move with my own mutability as a gift and no longer search for performative one-dimensionality. being home has taught me this, as i have had to witness my own shapeshifting and reckon with the deep-rooted reasons for it. i remember one day hearing adrienne maree brown and bayo akomolafe ask each other, “so what if i’m a shapeshifter?” and how they instinctually move and mutate through the cracks of the earth, and i haven’t stopped thinking about it since. this piece of writing is inspired by that question. as i become many different forms, i will stay grounded in my ever-changing essence and merge together the many shapes i am capable of becoming. 💞
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Authenticity and
I just feel like, “You know what? I don’t suck. Things don’t suck. I am just doing what is in the proper life cycle of a winning team to intentionally and strategically have a rebuilding year.”
from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 279 by Glennon
loving the process
Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.
What the Humans Like Is Responsiveness
by Sasha Chapin
sashachapin.substack.com
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But having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is o... See more
from Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson by web.mit.edu
loving the process
Articles
brenebrown.com
Now, the GoFundMe and DonorsChoose thing is closely related, but it gets its own throughline. These platforms emerge to seemingly supplement gaps in the public safety net for things like education and health care. But instead, they’re in a kind of enabling feedback loop: instead of your taxes ensuring that kids have desks and cancer patients can ge... See more
from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy
power structures and dynamics and Capitalism
from The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions by Scott Belsky
building a new world
Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:

"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.

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building better neighborhoods & communal spaces

from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 279 by Glennon

What the Humans Like Is Responsiveness

from Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson by web.mit.edu

Articles

from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy

from The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions by Scott Belsky