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.

As the world grows increasingly fractured, taking the time to engage with strangers has become even more important. The artist and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton has created a simple but powerful way for people to connect in an isolated world.

In this audio essay, she shares how she brings people together by having them draw each other in publ... See more
from Opinion | A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times
cool concepts
People are happy enough rich, and people are happy enough poor. But it’s hard to imagine anyone happy without a feeling that their actions have some impact, however small. Even if you’re not going to be remembered by history, you want to be remembered by your barista. The prisoner, though largely robbed of power, is probably happier if he can vex h... See more
from What the Humans Like Is Responsiveness by Sasha Chapin
Finding Meaning and Human Stuff
every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives
from Steve Almond Tells Us
Finding Meaning and storytelling
If you look at the trees and the mountains through windows that are wet from the rain of a storm, everything looks blurred and misshapen. Recognize your filters. Everything becomes beautiful when you change.
environmental psychology
from Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places | The On Being Project by Esther Sternberg
building my own language library
stories trapped in my cells, emotions in my fascia: there was information hidden in my body, and I didn’t know it.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
the body keeps score
If you’re actually serious about treating burnout — yours, your partners, your future children’s — you have to be serious about treating it for people you might not even know. If you want to actually make life better, more livable, less of a slog for yourself, that involves making it better for a whole lot of other people as well. For that, you don... See more
from what great inconvenience by Anne Helen Petersen
Burnout
Barry-Wehmiller Companies, a supplier of manufacturing and technology services, is a high-trust organization that effectively recognizes top performers in the 80 production-automation manufacturers it owns. CEO Bob Chapman and his team started a program in which employees at each plant nominate an outstanding peer annually. The winner is kept secre... See more
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust
Entrepreneur Cindy Gallop on how to build a successful business:

“There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those goa... See more
from 3-2-1: On inspiration, how to lose, and building a successful business by James Clear
good leadership

from Opinion | A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times

from What the Humans Like Is Responsiveness by Sasha Chapin

from Steve Almond Tells Us

from Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places | The On Being Project by Esther Sternberg

from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube

from what great inconvenience by Anne Helen Petersen

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak

from 3-2-1: On inspiration, how to lose, and building a successful business by James Clear