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.

No doubt, science gives us the capacity for wonder. It expands our sense of what is possible and helps us marvel at the enormity and preciousness of the universe. But does it give us the vocabulary we need for our spiritual life?

My sense is that it is either too precise or too abstract to give me the right words and images to name what God might b... See more
from A New Language for God?
Being trusted to figure things out is a big motivator: A 2014 Citigroup and LinkedIn survey found that nearly half of employees would give up a 20% raise for greater control over how they work.
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
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from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
three weeks till Be Not Afraid of Love is out in the world so here is an exclusive snippet from the chapter “Miracle” ★彡 i had the deepest honour of doing an exclusive performance reading with some of my sweetest, talented iconic friends at @palmheightsgc and it’s already been so heart-opening to share this book with people. thank you @reignofdynasty for bringing us all together. pre-order link is in bio. not long to go now 💙
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loving the process
I’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of na... See more
from Steve Almond Tells Us
the art of writing
Answers rise or fall to the questions they meet. And it is a deep, deep truth in science as in life that at any given moment we are being shaped as much by the questions we're carrying as by the answers we have it in us to give. Those moments when a new question rises up in us, stops us in our tracks, those are pivot points. Those are moments when ... See more
from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett
Chouinard and his business partner, Tom Frost, made what would become a legendary decision to shift away from pitons. It foreshadowed many other decisions Chouinard would make over the next fifty years, each with a similar pattern: Come to grips with damage you’re doing, set bright lines about how you’ll shift your business to reduce that damage, t... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
There’s such a fine line between owning the ideal, and manipulating it to your own ends....and being eternally disciplined by it.
from Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
on beauty in capitalism

from A New Language for God?

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from Steve Almond Tells Us

from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett

from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim

from Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'