Priya Parker | The Art of Gathering [BEST OF]
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
So, how do you turn a gathering, whether over a meal or a giant event, into an experience of collective elevation? Priya Parker is on a mission to help us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is a facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters (https://amzn.to/2K95VyJ) and the host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart (https://pod.link/1506057555). Priya has spent 15 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, she has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India.
Parker is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership, and a Senior Expert at Mobius Executive Leadership. 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. Her work has been featured everywhere from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and TED to Real Simple, Oprah.com, Glamour, the Today Show and more. In today’s Best Of conversation, we dive into the art of gathering and how to create those shared moments of understanding and transformation, which we could all use more of right now.
You can find Priya at:
Website : https://www.priyaparker.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/priyaparker/
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| 0:00.0 | So in this sort of time of emergence, how do we turn a gathering, whether it's two people, |
| 0:12.6 | a handful of people over a meal, to a larger gathering or event into an experience of collective |
| 0:18.8 | elevation? When my guest Priaparker is on a mission to help us take a deeper look at how |
| 0:23.8 | anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She's a facilitator, |
| 0:30.6 | strategic advisor, a claimed author of the art of gathering how we meet and why it matters, |
| 0:36.0 | a book that I absolutely love. And the host of the New York Times podcast together, apart, |
| 0:42.0 | Pri has spent some 15 years helping leaders and communities have these complicated conversations |
| 0:47.6 | about community and identity and vision at moments of transition, trained in the field of conflict, |
| 0:53.6 | resolution. She has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes |
| 1:00.0 | in the Arab world, southern Africa and India. And Pri is the founding member of the Sustain |
| 1:05.9 | Dialogue Campus Network, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on new models |
| 1:11.9 | of leadership. Any senior expert at Mobius Executive Leadership, she studied organizational |
| 1:18.0 | design at MIT, public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the |
| 1:24.0 | University of Virginia and her work. Well, it's been featured everywhere from the New York Times, |
| 1:28.2 | Wall Street Journal, NPR and Ted to real simple Oprah, Glamour, Tade Show, and tons of others. |
| 1:34.1 | And in today's best of conversation, we dive into what exactly is the art of gathering? How do |
| 1:39.7 | we bring together people and create those shared moments of understanding and transformation, |
| 1:44.9 | which is something that we could all use more of right now? So excited to share this conversation |
| 1:50.0 | with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 2:02.0 | So my mother comes from an originally binaris, which is sort of one of the oldest cities in India, |
| 2:08.8 | and her father, who actually would have turned 100 today, passed away about a few months ago. |
| 2:15.7 | Her father worked for the Indian government, and so she and her four siblings traveled around |
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