The Art of Gathering - How We Meet and Why It Matters

Zusatztext 106167022 Informationen zum Autor 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. @priyaparker Klappentext "Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together-at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. 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. She investigates a wide array of gatherings--conferences, meetings, a courtroom, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp--and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience. 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, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them.The way we gather matters. Gatherings consume our days and help determine the kind of world we live in, in both our inti- mate and public realms. Gathering—the conscious bringing together of people for a reason—shapes the way we think, feel, and make sense of our world. Lawgivers have understood, perhaps as well as anyone, the power inherent in gatherings.  In democracies,  the freedom  to assemble  is one of the foundational rights granted to every individual.  In countries descending into authoritarianism, one of the first things to go is the right to assemble. Why? Because of what can happen when people come together, exchange information, inspire one another, test out new ways of being together. And yet most of us spend very little time thinking about the actual ways in which we gather. We spend our  lives gathering—first in our families, then in neighborhoods and playgroups, schools and churches,  and then in meetings, weddings, town halls, conferences, birthday  parties, product  launches,  board  meetings,  class and  family  reunions, dinner parties, trade fairs, and funerals.  And we spend much of that time in uninspiring,  underwhelming moments that fail to capture us, change us in any way, or connect us to one another. Any number of studies support a notion that’s obvious to many of us: Much of the time we spend in gatherings with other people disappoints us. “With the occasional exception, my mood in conferences usually swings between boredom, despair, and rage,” Duncan Green, a blogger and specialist in international development, confesses in the Guardian . Green’s take isn’t unique to conferences: The 2015 State of En...

Product details

• Authors: Priya Parker
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781594634932
• ISBN: 978-1-59463-493-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development