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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

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[A] remarkable new book about how we spend our time together, at work, at home, and beyond. If you want to get more out of every event, whether it's with your boss and co-workers or friends and family, The Art of Gathering can help ― Bustle

[A] fantastic book . . . . Good things happen when people connect. Especially when we follow Priya's sage advice ― Forbes

Enthusiastically delivered formulas for better get-togethers... useful to those whose job it is to plan meetings, conferences, and the like and a worthy survival manual for consumers of the same ― Kirkus Reviews

This clear and engaging book sets down many things you thought you knew, until you find yourself remembering that you did not attend to its simple rules at the last significant event you hosted.... A passion for successful encounters enlivens every page -- Sherry Turkle ― author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age and Alone Together

A brilliant and eminently practical guide! The Art of Gathering will open your eyes to just how often we gather - and how we can turn those mundane events into dazzling opportunities for meaning, dreaming, and doing. This book should be mandatory reading for everyone from the business executive to the community activist, the conflict resolution specialist to the dinner host. Concrete advice that will forever change the way you gather -- Daniel L. Shapiro ― founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable

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Priya Parker is a strategic facilitator with a background in conflict-resolution. Her company Thrive Labs has worked with organizations as varied as MoMA, the World Economic Forum and the International Finance Corporation on strategy, vision and purpose. Parker was a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council in 2013 and a member on the New Models of Leadership's Council on Values. Her TedxHasselt has been viewed over 900,000 times and she has been covered by CNN.com, Harvard Kennedy School Review, NPR's Morning Edition, Inc. magazine, Entrepreneur magazine and Forbes.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books Ltd (16 May 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241973848
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241973844
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 223 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
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diksha

Great practical advice on meeting meaningfully

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 24 April 2021

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practical advice on how to gather people meaningfully and with purpose - from family gatherings to work meetings. Makes a lot of sense in the current hybrid world of work as well!

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Aditi Deodhar

excellent guide. a must have for peple working in communities, teams

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 July 2019

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book is amazing. It has helped me better design my brainstorming sessions and effectively arrange group events.

I liked the writing style

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Vishal Talreja

Great read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 26 February 2019

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Excellent book!

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Booklover

Good ideas but hard to get through

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 October 2018

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Excruciating to read. ideas are good but I recommend finding a synopsis

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Jean Callanan

A brilliant & thought provoking book that will change the way you host gatherings

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 January 2019

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I am an inveterate gatherer, both professionally (having spent much of my career bringing international groups together) and personally (as a gregarious hostess) and this book has made me think very differently about how and why I gather. It is a real treasure trove, beautifully written and full of examples from diverse worlds. I have already given it as a present to half a dozen people and I know it will be a resource that I constantly refer back to.

Here are three of my favorite takeaways from the book:
1. Get really clear why you are gathering.
Parker believes “Gathering, the conscious bringing together of a group of people for a reason – shapes the way we think, feel and make sense of our world.” She challenges us to think deeply about why we are gathering - to be really conscious and consequent about it. She asks "What do you want to be different because you have gathered?
Clarity of purpose is more than an inspiring concept according to Parker; it’s a tool that helps you make decisions about every aspect of the gathering. If you haven’t a clear purpose” Parker advises “Do a casual hangout, or give people their valuable time back.”

2. Practice “Generous Exclusion”
How often are our meetings or social gatherings hijacked by politeness, by feeling uncomfortable leaving someone out? She asks the question “Who, despite being irrelevant to the purpose do you feel obliged to invite?”
Parker argues generous exclusion is a “way of bounding a gathering that allows the diversity to be heightened and sharpened rather than diluted in a hodgepodge of people”

3. Exercise Generous Authority
“A gathering run on generous authority is run with a strong confident hand, but is run selflessly for the sake of others.”
Parker argues that when we host a gathering we have the responsibility to “protect our guests, equalise our guests, and connect our guests.” Failing to exercise authority (often because we may not want to be seen to be pushy) is to Parker an abdication of our responsibility as host, and far too often impedes the achievement of the stated purpose.

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Susan Stepney

Knowing the purpose helps you design the event

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 January 2022

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So many meetings or gatherings range from being a dire waste of time, to merely okay, with few standing out as valuable or enjoyable experiences. Parker describes some ways of increasing the effectiveness and meaningfulness of the gatherings you organise and run.

The first, and possibly most important, point needs to be considered well before any people arrive: what is the purpose of the gathering? Why is it happening, and what is the desired outcome? Often we think we know the purpose, but we may just be going with the flow (we always have a standup meeting on Mondays), or confusing two conflicting purposes (the example of a funeral is memorable: is it to mourn a passing, or celebrate a life? The answer will change the whole form of the gathering.)

Knowing the purpose helps you design the event. Design is less about the logistics (catering, etc) than the people, the setting, the structure of the event. So caterers and similar planners are not the right people to organise your meeting (although they may well be a necessary component). From starting with a powerful opening, through being an active host, to finishing strongly, the advice for a good gathering is somewhat like the advice for a good presentation, writ large.

Parker illustrates the advice with many anecdotes. Not all our gatherings are as high power or as high consequence as some of the example here, but they certainly make for memorable advice. I will probably try some of the ideas for the next technical meeting I host, and see what difference they make.

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Olly Buxton

On the touchy feely side, but plenty of food for thought

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 October 2019

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I bought this having heard Priya Parker in a freakonomics podcast about awful business. This is a good book, though it focuses more holistically on gatherings than meetings per se - there's much good advice for hosting a good dinner party - but enough about business meetings to take out of it.

Parker is inclined (in my view) to overemphasise the deeper astral meanings of her man gatherings - perhaps I'm a bit too British and cynical for that, but there's enough solid material in here - astral or otherwise - for that not to really matter.

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MT

A very interesting and eye-opening read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 10 July 2021

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I really didn’t know what to expect with this book but I was very pleasantly surprised by what I found.

As someone who loves to organise events - to “gather” people - this was a very interesting and eye-opening read on how to be very intentional about this act.

Everything from the concept of the gathering to the naming, the opening and the closing is considered and discussed in detail with great examples from the many stories Parker has to tell from her own life.

This is one of those books you put into practice straightaway and refer to time and time again.

Highly recommended for anyone who has ever organised (or plans to organise) any kind of gathering.

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Christine brown-quinn

Refreshing insight into the importance of making the most of bringing people together

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 January 2023

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Being intentional about why we meet (whether that be online or in person) makes the experience that much more worthwhile. This book offers actionable insights on how to do that both in our personal lives as well as our professional lives.

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Author, Amazon #1 Best Seller Unlock Your Career Success

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