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 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
In addition to tracking the impact your program is having on the organizations you’re supporting and the beneficiaries they serve, track the halo effect your program is having on your own community .

I regret not integrating questions around how the existence of Airbnb.org impacted community members' decision to join Airbnb and their desire to cont... See more
from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks
community activation x social impact
“There are old people who only think about the past, but it’s not like that around here.” She leaned her cane on a rock. “You have to do things,” she reflected. “There’s always a future, even if it’s very small.”
from A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of vie... See more
from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com
redefining success and nat's work/life mood board
Humanity has never faced anything like the combination of climate change, the rise of a vastly powerful industrialized China, and the “total collapse of the neoliberal paradigm,” he said. “It is a non-repeating pattern; it’s a one-way street into radical unhinging,” he continued. Tooze isn’t a pessimist, per se. “We aren’t on the point of World War... See more
from The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka
Black Hole Words: To me, these are words that are commonplace in a given industry but everyone has a slightly different definition of them. You can have a whole meeting and if you don’t define the word, you just wasted an hour of everyone’s time. They suck all the meaning and consensus out of a room, out of a business, and out of a company.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
Millions of people — and white people in particular — would rather endure physical isolation, generalized loneliness, caregiving exhaustion, and financial precarity than relinquish some of their societal power. That’s a far less optimistic foundational myth than individualism. But it’s a far more honest one.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
power structures and dynamics
But what if you’re under the influence of bad systems? What if we all are? What if we take a minute to laugh at how hard we defend our right to want things when we can barely explain why we want them in the first place, beyond “I like this”? Can we deconstruct those wants in a non-judgy but curious sort of way? Or maybe delight in the absurdity of ... See more
from You're Not Bad, You're Just Influenced That Way
“It’s the Italian tradition of dining as a discussion,” the German author Hans von Trotha commented over dessert. At Santa Maddalena, unhurried meals, served with Monti’s century of stories and the camaraderie of table-side banter, break up the workday. The retreat functions like a sleepaway camp for great writers, its ritual group meals and hoursl... See more
from A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
let's gather - ideas & concepts i love

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

from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks

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

from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com

from The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka

from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham

from The Dark Heart of Individualism

from You're Not Bad, You're Just Influenced That Way

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