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Being deprived of social gatherings revealed just how important they are; to connect with others, collaborate, share ideas and create moving, life-affirming experiences.
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If there’s one thing lockdown showed us, it’s that time together is a gift we’ve too often taken for granted.
In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker shows us how to ensure that however we meet, it’s a truly transformative experience. An expert on organizing successful gatherings whether in conference centres, crisis zones or her living room, Parker sets forth a human-centred approach to gathering that can help us create meaningful, memorable moments – large and small, for work and play.
The result is a book full of exciting real-world ideas that will forever alter the way you look at your next business meeting, dinner party and garden barbecue.
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‘Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!’ Chris Anderson, creator of TED
‘Priya Parker has created both an art and a science to gathering in ways that can bring joy and fulfilment to any meeting’ Deepak Chopra
‘A long overdue and urgent manifesto’ Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of This is Marketing
【Author Information】
Priya Parker
Priya Parker works to help people create collective meaning in their lives through gatherings. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, and the host and executive producer of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, NY.
