The Art of Gathering
How We Meet and Why It Matters
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:16th May '19
£10.99
Available for immediate dispatch.
The Art of Gathering shows you how to bring people together to create transformative, breakthrough meetings and experiences.
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
[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 *
ISBN: 9780241973844
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 223g
320 pages