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.

A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyteller and a dancer and a designer ... which means that you haven’t got time for your 10,000 hours in any of your chosen media. But technique or expertise is not the point. The point is versatility. Lik... See more
from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings
Driving With Mr. Gil: A Retiree Teaches Afghan Women the Rules of the Road
by Miriam Jordan
nytimes.com
restore your faith in humanity
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
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
How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clay Christensen
hbr.org
5 highlights
Life and
Your premise is the specific, defensible purpose for a project or your overall platform, pulled from your personal vision for your audience . Most work is too generic to resonate, too forgettable to become anyone’s favorite. But by developing our premise — and forcing ourselves to test just how differentiated it truly feels to others — we stand a g... See more
from How to Differentiate Your Ideas: The XY Premise Pitch by Jay Acunzo
Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.
how language shapes culture
In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
Modern spirituality
Transitions, down moments, and rest have never been my strengths. I think if I had been more forgiving and attentive to what’s quietest, I might have been less reckless with myself and others when I was young.
from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
Because all living things are connected on vibrational energy levels, our basic emotional state is picked up and reacted to by all life forms around us.
from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins

from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings

Driving With Mr. Gil: A Retiree Teaches Afghan Women the Rules of the Road

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

How Will You Measure Your Life?

from How to Differentiate Your Ideas: The XY Premise Pitch by Jay Acunzo

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

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins