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.

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
Experience must be followed by reflective thought and an internal processing that links the experience with previous learning, transforming the learner’s previous understanding in some manner. Learning, therefore, takes place within a cycle that includes action, reflection, and application.
from Enhancing Learning by Integrating Theory and Practice by Bruce Wrenn
from shift, change, delineate, and bloom
I saw something wonderful recently about how creatives should never apologize for taking the space to create. How wonderfully, stupidly obvious is that? Whether it’s your work or your pleasure, creating grounds us, fills us, lets the most alive parts of ourselves enter into the world to further germinate and flourish.
from In Kind on Monday: Working in "Airplane Mode" (and Not Apologizing)
Good morning 🌞 Image ID: On Waking Up I am wondering when newer became better. When we forsook the familiar for ideas of the future, mistook the mundane for less than extraordinary, wrote it off like a story. I am wondering when less stopped being more. When we began to believe that everything could be found in a store, that satisfaction will never be enough for you or for me. I am wondering when we fell for the lie. When we accepted that we’re here to work til we die, that our days are measured not in meaning but minutes and maximum efficiency. I am wondering when we can say we’ve made it. When we will look back and claim that the searching for fame and the making a name was worth what was lost, becoming somebody. I am wondering when the world will wake up. When we will open our eyes and realize that in staying asleep to keep chasing the dream, we forgot all we have: just this, to be.
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Life and
That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — ... See more
from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings
In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us ou... See more
from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
living a creative life
"Do not ask your children

to strive for extraordinary lives.

Such striving may seem admirable,

but it is the way of foolishness.

Help them instead to find the wonder

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

Show them the joy of tasting

tomatoes, apples and pears.

Show them how to cry

when pets and people die.

Show them the infinite pleasure

in the touch of... See more
from 3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life
During this final lap I’m paying close attention to the choices that I make. I’m trying to be very intentional. When I say that I’m aiming to create the fullest expression of the work, I don’t just mean the stories. I want to perfect the process too. How exactly am I using the time that each person gives me on the street? How are they impacted by t... See more
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from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com

from Enhancing Learning by Integrating Theory and Practice by Bruce Wrenn

from shift, change, delineate, and bloom

from In Kind on Monday: Working in "Airplane Mode" (and Not Apologizing)

from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings

from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

from 3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life

from 🎉 Brandon Stanton just shared "What do you mean by that?" for members only