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
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
play in adulthood
And across my life of conversation, I have learned that wisdom and wholeness emerge in moments precisely like ours, though ours is writ large, where human beings have to hold seemingly opposing realities in a creative tension and interplay, power and frailty, birth and death, pain and hope, mystery and conviction, brokenness and beauty, calm and fi... See more
from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett
The sense of connectedness and compassion characteristic of individuals with high levels of personal mastery naturally leads to a broader vision. Without it, all the subconscious visualizing in the world is deeply self-centered—simply a way to get what I want. Individuals committed to a vision beyond their self-interest find they have energy not av
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from The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
becoming an electric and magnetic being
If you are also feeling that sometimes, it’s all just too much — too much external and internal noise and doing and happening, I invite you to join me in posing this question: Dear Love, how can I find shelter from the storm? And as always, if that doesn’t feel quite right, you can instead pose the question that has never yet failed me: Dear Love, ... See more
from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Rowan Mangan!
digital xanax
an anecdote for dark times and a gentle reminder about our ability to create a better future by finding joy and acting compassionately in small, present moments ✨
instagram.com
“It’s not singlehood, dear friend, that hurts; it’s not casual sex, the fluidity of our bonds, nor their ephemeral nature that causes pain.” Rather, it’s the way that power operates in relationships. Desire isn’t a spontaneous, apolitical passion; it’s shaped by the world around us, and by what we’ve been taught to value. Romance operates like a ma... See more
from Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work? by Hannah Giorgis
power structures and dynamics
instagram.com
building a new world
We will start to realize that being chained to your mobile phone is a low-status behavior, similar to smoking.
from The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher by Max Fisher

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

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

from The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge

from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Rowan Mangan!

from Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work? by Hannah Giorgis

from The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher by Max Fisher