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.

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
every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives
from Steve Almond Tells Us
Finding Meaning and storytelling
People are too conscious about choosing the ‘right’ thing that signifies their taste level, or who they are as a person.

“And I get it, sometimes I say, ‘What’s the white tee I should buy?’ instead of, ‘This is what I want to spend and here’s what looks good on me.’ Same with ingredients — ‘Here’s what tastes good to me, f**k what anyone else recom... See more
from Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting by Blackbird Spyplane
on taste
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
BCG’s research underscores a fundamental shift in the employer-employee dynamic. Today, many people are on the lookout for better job opportunities, and it is time for leaders to start treating their employees like customers. This means companies need to use all their customer-focused capabilities such as deep discovery, sophisticated needs assessm... See more
from More Than a Quarter of Employees Globally Are Ready to Move on From Their Current Jobs
building great work cultures
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
redefining success and building a new world
There’s a tremendous sense of inner peace that can be had by simply seeing things as they truly are
from Dear Sugar Letter #41
redefining success and feelings run the world
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
play in adulthood

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from Steve Almond Tells Us

from Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting by Blackbird Spyplane

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

from More Than a Quarter of Employees Globally Are Ready to Move on From Their Current Jobs

from Dear Sugar Letter #41