![]() Parker gives us a ton of interesting observations and ideas about how to design a gathering, who to include and exclude, how to start, how to end, etc. I’m not totally sold on this generality, nor do I necessarily agree with some of the more aggressive approaches discussed.īut this is very, very interesting applied social psychology. □ Business meeting, wedding, college class, dinner party. This is her hammer, so every possible way two or more people might be together looks like a nail to her. ![]() Now, Parker is a “facilitator”, which is kind of like an event planner only she is deeply focused on people in groups, and making them do stuff that would never happen without the group. “That is what might be thought of as the Martha Stewart approach elevating the readying of things over the readying of people.” (p. If Martha Stewart is about the stage, Parker is about the play enacted on the stage. ![]() Where Martha Stewart and all those other guides to events talk about the logistical details, Parker is all about the social psychology of the thing. One thing about this book that really resonates with me: Parker is all about what people do together and how they do it. ![]()
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