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.

Asha Saluja is a rare mix of being a very serious taskmaster, but also a caring person who understands that creative work is made by real people with emotions and lives. She kept our ship running with compassion and also contributed lots of great ideas when we were developing the show.
from "Am I A Classhole?"
Conscious Leadership
In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden—to take care of your mind. The garden metaphor is particularly apt: taking care of your mind involves cultivating your curiosity (the seeds), growing your knowledge (the trees), and producing new thoughts (the fruits).
from You and Your Mind Garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more
from Martin Scorsese: “I have to find out who the hell I am” by Zach Baron
Humans fear, most of all, the loss of the capacity to experience.
from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins
Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:

"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.

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building better neighborhoods & communal spaces
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – and I could list a hundred mo
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from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska
loving the process and
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
Do not send me anything longer than you would send to a crush. Some people email me six-paragraph essays about the time they saved a cat from a tree.

I find the most effective way to get someone's attention is to simply give, just like in dating. Hey, I noticed that you read this book on your website. I think you'd like this book too; it's pretty sh... See more
from Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself¶ by Jason Liu
good advice
Telling stories is a process of mattering. Who matters? When we tell stories, we make ethical choices about who to bring in and who to leave out. We cannot bring in all of the voices. The voices themselves only come to exist once we recognize them. The in-between power increases the probability that we notice the voices, listen to the voices and in... See more
from New stories of power that matter
power structures and dynamics

from "Am I A Classhole?"

from You and Your Mind Garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

from Martin Scorsese: “I have to find out who the hell I am” by Zach Baron

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

from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska

from Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself¶ by Jason Liu

from New stories of power that matter