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.

My being an artist is not a question of being able to make artwork. It is a question of my willingness to make something imperfect, or ugly, and how much resilience I have to face that reality repeatedly.
from Turns Out I'm Petty
living a creative life
“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
"You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life... See more
from 3-2-1: The beauty of being an amateur, how to respond to a mistake, and finding work that grips your soul
Perhaps confidence isn’t something to be built; it's right under the surface when that heavy bulk of needing to be someone is lifted. Embracing being no one helped me feel authentic and confident, which, in my opinion, is way cooler than any expensive-looking sweater.
from Death of the Cool Girl by Totally Recommend
reframes i love
Innovation in a caring society must not only generate profit but create better outcomes for everyone. This is possible, but it requires care for people and planet to be valued as highly as capital – and for wellbeing to be incentivised as much as shareholder return.
from Sunshine Machines: Towards a Feminist Future of Digital Care by Rachel Coldicutt
building a new world
There’s also something to be said about collating and curating in the slow writing process—facts, knowledge, smells, descriptions, stories, passport stamps, headlines—until the collection becomes part of the transformation process. Through acute and critical attention, away from the drive of production, toward the singularity of studying a branch, ... See more
from A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
loving the process
A crush is a powerful little vial of that pure feeling—the longing, the push and pull. In his poem “The More Loving One,” W. H. Auden compared unrequited love to looking up at the stars, observing their beauty while knowing full well they “do not give a damn.” But he wasn’t mad about it; he saw that that’s how it should be, and anyway, he was more ... See more
from A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself by Faith Hill
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

from Turns Out I'm Petty

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

from Reader

from 3-2-1: The beauty of being an amateur, how to respond to a mistake, and finding work that grips your soul

from Death of the Cool Girl by Totally Recommend

from Sunshine Machines: Towards a Feminist Future of Digital Care by Rachel Coldicutt

from A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing

from A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself by Faith Hill

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