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.

New Creative Era
newcreativeera.com
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living a creative life
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
loving the process
There are days that compel me to walk outside of my studio, turn my face to the sky, and scream with delight “I love my life! Thank you Universe!” at the top of my lungs. But some days, when I’m in a crunch, I walk outside and hold my hands up to the sky, squint at the sun, and with a middle finger sticking out of each fist I gesture:— Yeah, yeah..... See more
from Turns Out I'm Petty
living a creative life
According to research from 2020 in the journal Behavior Therapy , 91 percent of the things studied participants worried about did not come to pass. This means that for every bad thing that happens, chronic worriers suffer for 10. If nothing else, this is a colossal waste of valuable time, and we should all find ways to avoid it.
from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks
in my (not so fun) feels
We love to convince ourselves that things are circumstantial. Like, I love painting, but I don’t paint anymore because I’m too bus y. Like, I’m not really happy with my suburban life, but I’m trapped in it indefinitely . But what if these things aren’t circumstantial? Instead of blaming the external world, imagine believing that some part of me wan... See more
from you have what you want
what do i want?
Enhancing Learning by Integrating Theory and Practice
Enhancing learning by integrating theory and practice in professional degree programs, with a focus on a Social Work course in Death and Grief.
by Bruce Wrenn
files.eric.ed.gov
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“I’m just thinking that ... nobody goes for a walk without there being something that supports that walk outside of ourselves. And that maybe we have a false idea that the able-bodied person is somehow radically self-sufficient.”
from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?
loving the process and Creativity
Chouinard and his business partner, Tom Frost, made what would become a legendary decision to shift away from pitons. It foreshadowed many other decisions Chouinard would make over the next fifty years, each with a similar pattern: Come to grips with damage you’re doing, set bright lines about how you’ll shift your business to reduce that damage, t... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
At 97, Monti is animated and unstoppable. She runs Santa Maddalena as her personal passion project, accepting no applications and choosing writers according to her instincts, in consultation with her network of friends, publishers and other authors. Her taste, developed over a lifetime of nurturing and being nurtured by literature and art, is consi... See more
from A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
descriptions of people

New Creative Era

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from Turns Out I'm Petty

from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

from you have what you want

Enhancing Learning by Integrating Theory and Practice

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

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

from A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’