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 four pillars of our approach are enabling meaningful interpersonal connection, facilitating participation to prime learning, sharing insights into scientific careers, and validating student competence and potential. According to data we collected in a post-course survey (Fig. 1), students attributed these strategies to helping them connect with... See more
from More than just content: building community in the graduate classroom - Nature Biotechnology
I’m uncomfortable with the idea of going public, but only because I haven’t been practicing. I guess I have to suck it up and accept that my practice now entails growing my capacity to deal with the unknown variables of other people even more than I already have.
from Hurry Slowly
on being seen
What might shift if we treated marketing as a creative practice itself? If we practiced promotion as an invitation into rather than a pushing onto ?
from Baila turns one, part 2.
reframes i love
The only things I allow myself to feel regret about are past food, clothing, and hair choices. Everything else, I think of as part of my path, my journey. All the steps we’ve taken have led us to where we are. For some reason, in this culture, we always want to win, be right, comfortable, and happy. There is, however, tremendous value in losing, in... See more
from Nana-Ama Danquah Tells Us
loving the process and in my (not so fun) feels
What Lawrence’s life demonstrates so powerfully is that it actually takes a daily effort to be free. To be free is not the result of a moment’s decisive action but a project to be constantly renewed. More than anything else, freedom requires tenaciousness. There are intervals of repose but there will never come a state of definitive rest where you ... See more
from It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon
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
It is actually an extraordinarily powerful skill to ask the “stupid” questions that
everyone else is afraid to ask. Stupid questions have the ability to create clarity in places where people didn’t even know there was confusion.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins
by David R. Hawkins
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Psychology and
The monotony of life contains a reservoir of ways to find relief, if we can only muster the courage and energy to dive in instead of opting out. If today you find yourself bored with your work—perhaps surfing around and reading some random essay on happiness—you may have just gotten a signal from the universe that it’s time for your spirit to evolv... See more
from Kierkegaard’s Three Ways to Live More Fully by Arthur C. Brooks
loving the process

from More than just content: building community in the graduate classroom - Nature Biotechnology

from Hurry Slowly

from Baila turns one, part 2.

from Nana-Ama Danquah Tells Us

from It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon

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

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

from Kierkegaard’s Three Ways to Live More Fully by Arthur C. Brooks