literature has documented the field’s concern for lack of consistent standards in the profession for nearly two decades,(8-10) and multiple individual and collaborative efforts from various professional massage organizations and stakeholder groups have sought to elevate the massage field’s standing through competency and training measures (e.g., Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge [MTBOK],(11,12) Entry-Level Analysis Project [ELAP],(13) National Teacher Education Standards Project [NTESP](14)). While the massage profession’s improvement through elevated education standards is important, education and standards should not be the sole mechanism for change. Indeed, Wardle et al.(15) point to the need for a broader agenda within the massage field, including attention to “upstream factors such as more active collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and policy-makers” (p.8), for overall Niki Munk, PhD, LMT,1,2 Jasmine Dyson-Drake, BS1 Diane Mastnardo, LMT3 1Department of Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Health and Human Sciences—IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, USA; 2Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), Broadway NSW, Australia; 3Massage of Northern Ohio Practice Based Research Network, Cleveland, OH, USA †Supplemental materials available at http://ijtmb.org 30 International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork—Volume 12, Number 1, March 2019 members? Perspective from schools, employers, independent contractors (IC), and continuing education (CE) providers. Part III. Looking into the Future: World Café exercise (described in Methods). Part IV. Bringing it all together: Looking for patterns and insights to share discoveries. The organization, analysis, and dissemination of data collected as part of the 4-hr forum was intended to assist in progressing the massage field. Participants were attendees at the Congress, and included individuals engaged and involved in each of the Congress’s stakeholder organizations (Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals: ABMP, AFMTE, American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA), Federation of Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB), Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF), National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB), Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH), and American Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA), and represented massage therapists, students, educators, and employers. Congress attendees span all sectors of massage-related professional organizations, education frameworks and delivery platforms, and employment, each with varying experience related to health-care delivery, receipt, and complementary therapy integration. The diverse population of massage education stakeholders expected to attend the Congress suggested a viable and broad source from which opinions regarding massage field progression needs could be collected. The forum exercise asked participants to consider, document, and assign value to their thoughts on what should be done differently, more, started, and stopped in regard to massage foundation education, continuing education, and employment. Forum attendees and exercise participants earned 4 hrs of continuing education credit for these conference activities. Prior to the forum, the Indiana University Institutional Review Board provided review and approval as Exempt for the forum’s data gathering exercise protocol (#1706190124) which occurred during the forum’s Part III. The forum and World Café exercise was developed by lead authors DM and NM, with input from AFMTE over the course of four months. DM developed the procedures for and led the forum and exercise, and NM attended the forum, observed and documented exercise activities, and designed the analysis plan for the data. The purpose of the World Café forum exercise was to systematically collect, organize, and report what massage therapy education stakeholders believe is most important for foundation massage education, continuing massage education, and massage employment to move the field forward, in a positive direction. It is hoped that the process described here profession improvement. Instances of such collaborative efforts exist and have resulted in publications that provide symposium activities documentation(10) and results,(16,17) as well as field recommendations(9,10,18) and challenges articulation.(2,9,18,19) The US therapeutic massage and bodywork field seems to be at a professional precipice regarding the direction of its education and practice with regard to health care. Will the massage field work to professionally align itself to work with and in medical health-care settings and practice; remain as is with no definitive and recognized professional credential or qualification for work with and in medical health-care settings and practice; or shift completely away from alignment as complementary to medical health-care settings and practice? Progress toward one direction or the other seems arrested, perhaps due in part to the diversity of options and opinions coupled with unsystematic discussion, vision, and decision dissemination from multiple field stakeholders. Additional research collaboration with massage education,