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.

what if we defined our life purpose as a way of being?
loving the process and good questions
My sense is that what’s at stake here is really rethinking the human as a site of interdependency. And I think, you know, when you walk into the coffee shop ... and you ask for the coffee, or you, indeed, even ask for assistance with the coffee, you’re basically posing the question, do we or do we not live in a world in which we assist each other? ... See more
from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell
building a new world
A great new word: Pronoia Pronoia: the belief that the universe is conspiring in your favour – the opposite of paranoia.
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy.
from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com
redefining success
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
“In many ways the magic of Patagonia comes from the constraints we place on ourselves which are grounded in our deep sense of responsibility to do right by the environment and society,” Stanley told me. “We can't go to the Fashion Institute of Technology library and choose from 5,000 fabrics for the spring line. We have a couple hundred we can choo... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
Transitions, down moments, and rest have never been my strengths. I think if I had been more forgiving and attentive to what’s quietest, I might have been less reckless with myself and others when I was young.
from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
Quality is so rare generally that people are often surprised by it.

Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.

Quality, brand and culture are some of those inta... See more
from Tweet by Karri Saarinen
In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
Modern spirituality

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com

from what great inconvenience by Anne Helen Petersen

from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

from Tweet by Karri Saarinen

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova