[]
The Art of Gathering
Play sample
  • Published: 5 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241973844
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

The Art of Gathering

How We Meet and Why It Matters

Formats & editions
Paperback
5 Sept 2019
EBook
26 July 2018
Audiobook
10 Feb 2022
Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

Discover how to create transformative gatherings, breakthrough meetings, and moving experiences – at home, at work, in your community, and beyond.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

\"A long overdue and urgent manifesto.\" - Seth Godin

In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lacklustre and unproductive, but they don't have to be. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker uncovers a human 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 curator of transformative 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 - and explains how simple, specific changes can invigorate any group experience.

The Art of Gathering is both a journey and a guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. This book will forever change the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and barbecue - and how you host and attend them.
  • Published: 5 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241973844
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

About the author

Priya Parker

PRIYA PARKER is a facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on peace processes across the world and advised Zohran Mamdani for his successful New York City mayoral campaign. 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.
PP

Also by Priya Parker

The Art of Fighting
See all

Praise for The Art of Gathering

[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