Why do some moments take off and others fizzle? What's the difference between the gatherings that inspire you and the ones that don't?
We spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the motions and others which galvanise a team and remind everyone why they first took the job. We've been to weddings that were deeply moving and others that were run-of-the-mill and simply faded away.
In The Art of Gathering, through analysis of all sorts of meetings imaginable, Priya Parker gets to the heart how to design a truly transformative gathering. An expert on organizing successful gatherings whether in conference centres, crisis zones or her living room, Parker shows us how to create moving, magical, mind-changing experiences - even in spaces where we've come to expect little.
