Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering

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Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do we gather in meaningful ways? After the pandemic took apart so many of our favorite ways of hanging out, we might be out of practice. Or too tired or overwhelmed. Priya Parker is an expert facilitator who encourages us all to practice being together for different reasons. And they don’t have to be nearly as fancy or predictable as we might think… In this episode, Kate and Priya discuss: How do we show up for other people and ourselves in creative ways How to know when a change might be needed in a regular gathering Risk and the awkwardness of needing people *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Subscribe to receive blessings in your inbox every week. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available in PAPERBACK. Order your copy, today. Looking for some short spiritual reflections and blessings? Check out GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. We are going to practice the season of Advent together. Download a free Advent guide, here. Introducing THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days (releasing February 14, 2023). Learn more, pre-order, and receive a free pennant, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Remembering the before times when we used to get together without a second thought, lingering
0:10.2	dinners and grabbing drinks after work, catching up with old friends over coffee.
0:15.9	Annual costume parties, if you're me, and neighborhood barbecues and little game tournaments
0:22.5	and book clubs that were more wine maybe than books.
0:26.7	But then the pandemic.
0:28.7	The pandemic forced us to have a bit of a reset.
0:33.0	We had to learn how to be together apart.
0:36.8	So we got creative.
0:38.5	Zoom charades and Zoom coffee dates and Zoom painting classes and Zoom book clubs and faculty
0:44.2	meetings.
0:45.2	And some of those innovations we might want to keep and others we want to exile from our
0:50.4	minds forever.
0:53.7	Then whatever time this is that we find ourselves now, we may be wondering what getting together
1:00.5	should look like now.
1:03.2	How do we get the good parts back that we had in the before times?
1:07.9	But we might be a little bit out of practice or too tired or too overwhelmed to even know
1:13.3	what to ask for.
1:15.2	But we know this part is true.
1:18.2	When life comes undone, we need each other now more than perhaps ever before.
1:24.6	So the very act of gathering feels central to, I don't know, survival maybe.
1:32.8	But how do we do it in a way that fits our lives now?
1:36.9	The after life.
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