067: How to Design Gatherings That Matter, with Priya Parker

Feel Good Effect

Robyn Conley Downs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is Priya Parker, a master-facilitator and the founder of Thrive Labs where she helps activists, elected officials, corporate executives, educators and philanthropists create transformative gatherings. Priya is also the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, which really dives into how to create gatherings, in all types of contexts, that meaningfully connect people.

This conversation is all about how to infuse intention and connection into those gathering opportunities. Priya talks about the idea of code switching, what that does at an individual level and how it led her to group conflict resolution.

She also talks about how self-care is relational, and how we can host or guest gatherings in ways that foster self-care with some tactical tips and questions to reflect on.

Priya and Robyn also talk about the idea of a spiral supper, encouraging listeners to participate as a virtual community.

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Guest Bio

Priya Parker is a master facilitator and the founder of Thrive Labs, at which she helps activists, elected officials, corporate executives, educators, and philanthropists create transformative gatherings. 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 is the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Find her online at www.priyaparker.com and @PriyaParker on Twitter and Instagram.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Feel Good Effect.
0:02.5	Today we are talking about how to design gatherings that matter.
0:06.3	And we all attend and host gatherings all the time, right?
0:09.9	Whether it's a work meeting or hosting a holiday or just attending a get-together, a shower, a wedding.
0:16.3	And this one is all about how to infuse intention and connection into those gathering opportunities. Let's make
0:22.6	it happen. Welcome to the feel good effect. I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I help people
0:31.6	find time and create space in their lives for what matters most by sharing simplified strategies for wellness. This
0:39.4	podcast is all about real talk, real wellness, and unpacking what it really means to be healthy.
0:49.2	Hey, feel good effect community. I'm so glad you're here for this conversation with Priya Parker,
0:54.9	all about how to design gatherings that matter. Priya is a master facilitator and the founder of Thrive
1:01.0	Labs, where she helps activists, elected officials, corporate executives, educators, and philanthropists
1:06.6	create transformative gatherings. She's trained in the field of conflict resolution and has worked
1:11.9	on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world,
1:17.0	southern Africa, and India. She's studied organizational design at MIT, public policy at Harvard
1:22.7	Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia. So she's legit. She's also the author of
1:29.2	The Art of Gathering, How We Meet, and Why It Matters, which is what we're really going to dive into
1:33.4	today. I really love this conversation because I think it really helps reframe the whole idea of
1:38.8	gatherings or celebrations or parties and gives us some really tactical ways to make them more intentional,
1:45.3	more meaningful, more connected. Priya also shared a really good idea with us during this episode,
1:51.7	more of an experiment, and it's something I want to invite you to be a part of. If you tune in last
1:56.5	week, you know we talked about how to avoid the holiday spiral. And I encouraged you to cultivate an
2:02.7	intentional season instead, right? So be really intentional and incremental about these last 50-some days
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