The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
A talented gatherer doesn’t hope for disparate people to become a group. She makes them a group.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
I then design the day based on what I see in their answers. I also weave quotes from their workbooks into my opening remarks at the convening.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
If you host consciously, you can bring the stranger spirit to a gathering of people familiar with one another.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Everyone else was a prop.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Rules can create an imaginary, transient world that is actually more playful than your everyday gathering. That is because everyone realizes that the rules are temporary and is, therefore, willing to obey them.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Circle of Friends.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
And plan your next gathering when you have a specific, unique, disputable purpose that helps you make decisions about how the event should unfold.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Zeldin invention called the “Conversation Menu”
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
In my experience, there are certain magic numbers in groups. Every facilitator has his or her own list, and these are obviously approximations, but here are mine: 6, 12 to 15, 30, and 150.