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.

The better life you absolutely can build isn’t going to be brought to you by ChatGPT but by your own steady uphill clawing and through careful management of your own expectations. You live here. This is it.
from To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe
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
Creating high density of not only people, but ideas and energy = serendipity and aliveness. Lewis Mumford writes that the primary purpose of the city is “to permit—indeed, to encourage—the greatest possible number of meetings, encounters, challenges, between varied persons and groups, providing as it were a stage upon which the drama of social life... See more
Experience Design and
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!"
from Tweet by Azlen
this is a mf vibe
“We have lost a sense of play. After 2020 did her big one, we’ve been looking for play..... with Pickeball, with trivia nights, and frickin’... improv. And in reality, you can just leave your house and have a nice playful moment with someone else. [...] We live in a fear-based culture.”
from Playfulness, 'the marriage pact', nostalgia loops, an innovation idea for footwear brands lurking
play in adulthood
loving the process and redefining success
I have also come to understand that trying to fit into society’s understanding of a “good girl” is a trap, the same way that the “model minority” and the “good gay” and the “good fatty” are all traps. Even when you succeed at it you lose, because these roles are all ultimately means of containment: of circumscribing power by putting exacting, contr... See more
from Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
power structures and dynamics
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau
I feel my life has unfolded in a way that prepared me to do this work and along the way, especially so in the last decade, so many doors have opened that shouldn’t have and I feel the weight of the hands of all of my ancestors on my back urging me through them. So the essential part of this work is to show up. Show up when asked to represent my peo... See more
from Becoming Little Shell
loving the process and how i want to live my life

from To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe

from Steve Almond Tells Us

from Tweet by Azlen

from Playfulness, 'the marriage pact', nostalgia loops, an innovation idea for footwear brands lurking

from Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap

from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau

from Becoming Little Shell