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.

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
In the early 20th century, Rilke wrote a wonderful series of letters to a young poet in which he counseled, "Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart." He said, "Try to love the questions themselves as though they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language." He said, "Don't try to reach for the answers which could not... See more
from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett
loving the process
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll conf
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from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian
gut feeling
A design studio called donttakethisthewrongway has placed the bags throughout the city for anyone to take a moment to relieve some tension! The bright yellow bags feature an image of a fist and say ‘Public punching bag. Use at your own risk. A healthy place for frustrations.’ The design studio said: ‘The concept explores designing common spaces for the frustrations we all face. Frustrations that go beyond designed systems and happen, well, because we are human.’ ‘The public punching bag offers an outlet for these emotions as a means to maybe develop a healthier way to address personal and collective issues in a public setting.’ Let us know your thoughts below! #memereport 🥊
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cool concepts
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
Maya Angelou // "When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I’m trying for that. But I’m also trying for the language. I’m trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for what it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and the delicacies of our existence."
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Maya Angelou and the art of writing
loving the process
three weeks till Be Not Afraid of Love is out in the world so here is an exclusive snippet from the chapter “Miracle” ★彡 i had the deepest honour of doing an exclusive performance reading with some of my sweetest, talented iconic friends at @palmheightsgc and it’s already been so heart-opening to share this book with people. thank you @reignofdynasty for bringing us all together. pre-order link is in bio. not long to go now 💙
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loving the process

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

from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett

from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian

from Enhancing Learning by Integrating Theory and Practice by Bruce Wrenn