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.

A bigger problem than price inflation is expectations inflation: A constant increase in what you need to be satisfied.
from A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About by Collab Fund
Through my work, I present all my dreams, my fears, my ego, my insecurity, and it takes a level of being OK with being “seen” like that to really create work that speaks to the human condition. I laugh thinking back on an example I can give — I have a dress from one of my first collections that has my nightmares printed on it from when I was a chil... See more
from Thebe Magugu - Brené Brown
living a creative life
It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team.
from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Embracing embodied exercise is taking the courageous step to welcome the full breadth of our experiences and unlock the full power of our bodies. The way we approach activities like exercise is often how we live our lives. We can grind through it chasing external accomplishments and rushing to the next milestone. Or, we can deeply connect to our ow... See more
from Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise by Sam Sager
loving the process
About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.

The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See more
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
the mediocrity trap
Generative Engagement, as a model, is a way of thinking about how you make moment-by-moment choices to interact with others to create generative space between you. It asks that you consider three conditions* in your interactions to shape patterns of generative engagement.

You stand together, sharing identity. You come together, across your differenc
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from Generative Engagement
building a new world and
instinctual adventurer
from Sculpting the wild: Discover A Sculptor's Paradise in South Africa
descriptions of people
The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with alg... See more
loving the process
Prove you can do hard things When a teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why… Show more
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confidence and

from A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About by Collab Fund

from Thebe Magugu - Brené Brown

from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

from Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise by Sam Sager

from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni

from Generative Engagement

from Sculpting the wild: Discover A Sculptor's Paradise in South Africa