Priya Parker
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346 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2019
last heard 8 Sep
Priya Parker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Takeaway two is to read the room.
Yes, yes.
You know, in The Art of Gathering, I talk a lot about the role of a host.
And people think about gathering as a source of connection and meaning, and it is.
But gathering is also about power.
And as a host, you have power.
And the role of the host is to practice what I call generous authority.
So generous authority is you have a role, if you're going to bring people together, to connect them to each other, but also to protect them from each other.
You can get cornered all night by so-and-so when you don't want to be having this conversation or you're running a training and there's one person who's asking all of the questions and won't pipe down.
That's actually the host abdicating their role
And so another thing, if you're really going to start getting into these questions, is what are questions that are equalizing?
What are questions that everyone might be able to answer, that everyone's going to lean in and wait for the answer, but also be really, really excited to share their own?
Oh, I love that.
Did you share with them what you just shared with me, which is I'd been talking about my body and therapy?
Did you give the context?
So I believe I did.
Because that really matters.
That anchors everyone to feel like this is not performative or controlling.
It's from a well of curiosity in your own life.
You're inviting them into your question.
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