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.

"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova
loving the process
Like Diana, Princess of Wales, whose royal status, beauty and untimely death made her into a legend, Ms. Bessette Kennedy exists less as a person than an idea. Because she was so notoriously private, because she married into a family that had already colonized part of the public imagination, and because our memories of her are essentially preserved... See more
from Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Ghost Influencer by Vanessa Friedman
Stories are incredibly powerful in moving members to engage in impact initiatives. Centering impact stories on the community members who made them possible also feels far less self-aggrandizing than focusing on your company’s efforts.
from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks
community activation x social impact
I also think a lot about the old, iconic structures around the world that have stood the test of time and, in many cases, where we aren’t quite sure of all the details of how they were constructed. Marvels like the Colosseum, Roman aqueducts, or the Great Wall. Incredible architectural feats that were, by necessity, built to last and built slowly –... See more
from Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures) by Mario Gabriele
going slow
But having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is o... See more
from Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson by web.mit.edu
loving the process
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts. Because most people throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their feelings, the suppressed energy accumulates and seeks expression through psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesse
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from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins
Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are supposed to magically eliminate all variables for failure before trying anything new in the presence of others.

So next time that feeling creeps in, try this HoJo (that’s what we insiders call the place... See more
It’s an entrepreneurial trope, and a tired one, to believe that I should maximize every aspect of launching . Most everybody who's been in my shoes heralds events as the best way to get people in the door, which is another way of saying that events are the best way to make money. Money is important, sure, but I’ve generally found it to be a shitty ... See more
from Quiet Openings
loving the process and going slow

from Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Ghost Influencer by Vanessa Friedman

from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks

from Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures) by Mario Gabriele

from Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson by web.mit.edu

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

from Quiet Openings