Start with a Need, Not a Form

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Focus on identifying the need or purpose behind an event, such as gathering people, rather than starting with a predetermined form or tradition. By addressing a specific need, like creating a space for worn out moms to be taken care of, the event can have a more meaningful impact on the guests, starting from the moment they start imagining the experience.

Priya Parker is here to discuss what Glennon called “the most important thing in the world” – connection – and how to make our time with other people have more of it. She teaches us:

How – whether it’s a wedding or a retirement party – you can create new gathering rituals that forge truer, deeper relationships;

Why the outcome of every gathering is decided before anyone steps in the room; and

Why so many of us hate parties – and what to do about it.

For the The Art of Gathering online course giveaway go to priyaparker.com/hardthings

About Priya:

Priya Parker is a conflict facilitator, strategic advisor, international speaker, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters and host of the podcast TOGETHER APART. She is the creator and host of The Art of Gathering digital course, about how to make meaning with and for our people. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.

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