The Art of Gathering

Priya Parker invigorates mundane meetings with lessons on how to turn every gathering and customer experience into an opportunity to build community.
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Speaking Engagements

In interactive “live experiences,” longtime corporate advisor Priya Parker encourages teams of all sizes to connect in new ways while providing strategies to make everything from social events to meetings more meaningful and productive.

Book

In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker combines informative case studies with practical tips to present a bold new approach to gatherings that will transform the way individuals come together.

Digital Content

Digital Content

Reading guides and curated content complement The Art of Gathering and Priya Parker’s strategies for invigorating meetings. Click here to download a discussion guide for The Art of Gathering to use with your team.

Priya Parker talks about purposeful gatherings, embracing conflict, and why exclusion is paramount.

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“[Priya] opens up new ways of thinking about wonderful gatherings with a delicious confection of smartly-defined concepts and detailed examples.”
Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
“Priya Parker has created both an art and a science to gathering in ways that can bring joy and fulfillment to any meeting.”
Deepak Chopra
“[Priya] 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.”
Daniel L. Shapiro, founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable
“Parker offers a decoder ring for the secret forces at work when we gather for business, crises or celebration.”
Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Seventh Sense
“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.”
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Program Topics

  • The Art of Gathering Live Experience

    This will be an unusual happening: a live, dynamic, large-group event for attendees to experience The Art of Gathering in real time. In this highly interactive special event, Priya will design a live laboratory that demonstrates the ideas of her book and connects us to each other in new ways, while breaking down the anatomy of what actually makes for transformative gatherings. Drawing from her new book, Priya will lead a group experience that demonstrates how gathering is a form of leadership, and then reverse engineer what she does to create this sense of community. The result is a dynamic, memorable, exciting experience that will give you real tools to walk away with and apply to all of the gatherings in your own work and life.

The Art of Gathering

The Art of Gathering

How We Meet and Why It Matters

In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are unnecessarily lackluster and unproductive. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.

Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn’t, and why. The result is a book that’s both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting.e result is a book that’s both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue–and how you host and attend them.

Available in Hardcover, eBook, and Audiobook
320 Pages; Published May 15, 2018

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The Art of Gathering

“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

“Don’t read this book alone. Read it at a gathering of friends, in a book club, with a team of colleagues, or on a family reunion. But read it—for its wisdom, its charm, its insight, and its ability to make every encounter with others more meaningful and enjoyable. The Art of Gathering is a book long overdue, and just in time.”

—Bruce Feiler, bestselling author of The Secrets of Happy Families and Walking the Bible
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