The Art of Fighting:
The Transformative Power of Conflict
Coming September 8, 2026!
A paradigm-shattering exploration of how we fight and how we build healthy conflict, from the author of The Art of Gathering.
We say we want community. High-performing colleagues and workplaces. Dynamic friend groups. Yet many of us don’t understand the crucial element we need to forge long-lasting relationships in our lives: healthy conflict.
In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker explains that we can’t form and grow effective community without conflict. She rejects the idea that good groups don’t fight. Indeed, it’s because people disagree that groups flourish.
As she did in the now-classic The Art of Gathering, Parker draws on her far-reaching experience in conflict resolution as well as her own detailed research and down-to-earth examples to lay out the ways that people can identify disputes, determine how to address them, and what to do if they are insurmountable. Whether people disagree in the boardroom or the locker room, on a playground or in church, online or in person, conflict is a part of life, and understanding healthy conflict and how to harness its power is more important than ever. The Art of Fighting is a vital primer to help all of us understand how to do that.
The Art of Gathering:
How We Meet and Why It Matters
In this highly acclaimed best seller, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive — and they don't have to be. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.
“Priya Parker has become the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now. She’s helping remake the “how” of coming together, but more importantly, the “why.”
Krista Tippett
Host + Executive Producer of On Being
“A brilliant and eminently practical guide! The Art of Gathering will open your eyes to just how often we gather – and how we can turn those mundane events into dazzling opportunities for meaning, dreaming, and doing. This book should be mandatory reading for everyone from the business executive to the community activist, the conflict resolution specialist to the dinner host. Concrete advice that will forever change the way you gather.”
Daniel L. Shapiro
Founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable
“Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering is brilliant. The book is a timely reminder: It’s our human-to-human links that make the most meaningful moments of our lives. Page by page, Parker offers a decoder ring for the secret forces at work when we gather for business, crises or celebration. What to leave out, where to meet, how to charm—it's all here, explained with unforgettable stories and clever tips. You'll only put this book down because it will make you so hungry for a gathering of your own.”
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Author of The Seventh Sense and The Age of the Unthinkable
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Together Apart Podcast
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Part guide, part reminder of the resiliency of the human spirit to still meaningfully gather, creatively — even when we’re apart.