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.

Leading from good to great does not mean coming up with the answers and then motivating everyone to follow your messianic vision. It means having the humility to grasp the fact that you do not yet understand enough to have the answers and then to ask the questions that will lead to the best possible insights.
from Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins
good leadership
Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages that catch your eye, and occasionally one of you hollers in a whispering voice, "come check this out!"
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this is a mf vibe
Philosopher and author Arthur Schopenhauer on the importance of reflection and contemplation rather than mere reading and research:

“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing e... See more
from 3-2-1: How to solve hard problems, the power of reflection, and the miracles of daily life
My job is to be a musician and make music and do what is authentic to me and reflect my inner world in the most personal way possible. In songwriting, the most personal is the most universal. It's about using my own emotions as a connective tool.
from Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion by Mélissa Godin
the transformative power of music and loving the process
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
There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitation practices or when we make meetings happen in a certain way, that helps change these conditioned ways of operating. In the process of learning to work this way, what really helps is, again, trust. T... See more
from On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden by Willa Köerner
Organization Dynamics and
So how do we keep doing all this passion work that needs doing? How do educate, and make art, and create spaces to enjoy it? How do we comfort the infirm, and protect the vulnerable, and agitate for a better world? We can agree that the outcome of this type of work is valuable and venerable. It is essential . But the we value the people doing the w... See more
from When Your Profession is On Fire
questions i keep coming back to
“In many ways the magic of Patagonia comes from the constraints we place on ourselves which are grounded in our deep sense of responsibility to do right by the environment and society,” Stanley told me. “We can't go to the Fashion Institute of Technology library and choose from 5,000 fabrics for the spring line. We have a couple hundred we can choo... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
New humanism is the philosophy of creative writing. It is a philosophy of disciplined individualism, of crafted authenticity.
from Reader

from Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins

from Tweet by Azlen

from 3-2-1: How to solve hard problems, the power of reflection, and the miracles of daily life

from Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion by Mélissa Godin

from On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden by Willa Köerner

from When Your Profession is On Fire

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

from Reader