Priya Parker is a facilitator, consultant, and author of the best-selling The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Her new book, The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict, builds on her first book’s themes and draws on the experiences of people in a wide variety of settings who seek to address conflict well.
How do you describe what you do?
I am trained as a conflict resolution facilitator, and I still think of that as my first craft. My second craft is writing and speaking. I’m trying to take something that we’ve been doing for time immemorial—whether it’s gathering or fighting—and give people the skills to get better at life with other people.
