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.

"I have learned that whenever I think "I don't have enough time to do that" what I usually mean is "I don't have enough energy" or "I am not actually interested in doing this."

What I need to do a better job of is not managing my time, but rather caring for myself and identifying my true interests. When I am well rested and working on something I a... See more
from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like
loving the process
We love to convince ourselves that things are circumstantial. Like, I love painting, but I don’t paint anymore because I’m too bus y. Like, I’m not really happy with my suburban life, but I’m trapped in it indefinitely . But what if these things aren’t circumstantial? Instead of blaming the external world, imagine believing that some part of me wan... See more
from you have what you want
what do i want?
I think of as each of us having built up an intangible asset over the previous chapters of our lives, a distributed reservoir of credibility that is held in trust by your friends, mentors, and former colleagues. Your task is now to convert that intangible asset into a tangible asset
from Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform by Graham Duncan
The world can feel very out of control, especially for younger people. And controlling your own body is a coping mechanism. Part of the solution, if there is one, is to educate about this. There's so much out there right now about diet culture, and no one is really talking about beauty culture in the same way.

At the same time, a lot of this would b... See more
from Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry? — Gloria by Leslie Price
power structures and dynamics
When a manager assigns a team a difficult but achievable job, the moderate stress of the task releases neurochemicals, including oxytocin and adrenocorticotropin, that intensify people’s focus and strengthen social connections. When team members need to work together to reach a goal, brain activity coordinates their behaviors efficiently. But this ... See more
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust
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
When Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries of employees from a variety of industries, she found that 76% of people reported that their best days involved making progress toward goals.
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust
Anekdote
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Cowie posits fantasy as a “mise-en-scene of desire”: a setting forth of an elaborate scene of drawn-out pleasure, of almosts and near-misses, of denial and the controlling of masculine and feminine subject positions. In Cowe’s words, “fantasy depends not on particular objects, but on their setting out; and the pleasure of fantasy lies in the settin... See more
from You Only Like the Beginning of Things

from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like

from you have what you want

from Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform by Graham Duncan

from Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry? — Gloria by Leslie Price

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak

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

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak

Anekdote

from You Only Like the Beginning of Things