The Art of Re-Gathering | Priya Parker

This talk was recorded at CMX Summit 2022: Thrive
Priya Parker is helping us look deeper at how can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. Krista Tippett, host of the podcast On Being, has called her “the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now.” Whether she is donning the hat of facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of "The Art of Gathering," TED speaker, or the host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart, Pryia seeks ways to bring us together in more meaningful ways.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Priya Parker
The Art of Gathering
Author
Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters​, and executive producer and host of the​ ​New York Times​ podcast, ​Together Apart​. Parker ​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, Parker 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 Values Council and the 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.
Parker’s ​The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters ​(Riverhead, 2018) has been named a Best Business Book of the year by Amazon, Esquire Magazine, NPR, the Financial Times, 1-800-CEO-READS and Bloomberg. She has spoken on the TED Main Stage, and her TEDx talk on purpose has been viewed over 1 million times. Parker’s work has been featured in numerous outlets including the ​New York Times​, the ​Wall Street Journal​, NPR, TED.com, Forbes.com, Real Simple Magazine, Oprah.com, Bloomberg, Glamour, the Today Show and Morning Joe. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, ​Anand Giridharadas​, and their two children.
MODERATOR:
Jessica Hobbs
Bevy
Director of Community Programming
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[@anbynth2911]

She’s is so well spoken and articulate. I’m so inspired.

[@davidinglish7001]

Love this session-- so many great points. Love her story of the Gatherifying an event: give it a name, give it rules. The whole story resonated with me as a great example.
Love her SXSW story around how COVID changed community management. 100% agree especially for accessibility. People with disabilities "I feel less lonely and disconnected now"

[@danielpiatek]

Really great conversation. Priya is wonderfully eloquent.

[@poettreeclimber]

J6 coup?! Smh