practice, and policy stakeholders could help to collect, organize, and disseminate opinions, views, and recommendations to stoke informed field progress. The Future of MT and Bodywork Forum was held July 27 during the 2017 Alliance for Massage Therapy Education (AFMTE) Educational Congress in Tucson, Arizona.(20) A systematic approach was developed to gather the thoughts and opinions of the various massage education stakeholder forum attendees during an exercise following the principles of the World Café model, mixed with elements of speed dating. The key aspects of a World Café approach to discussion are: “Set the context, create hospitable space, explore questions that matter, encourage everyone’s contribution, connect diverse perspectives, listen together for patterns and insight, and share collective discoveries”.(21,22) Multiple 20- to 30-min-long facilitated dialogues around a handful of topics is a hallmark of World Café and can take a fairly substantial amount of time. For situations in which multiple topics are on a discussion docket, elements indicative of speed dating can be used to allow multiple topics to be discussed and considered by everyone in a large group in a relatively short period. Forum activities, including the World Café-meetsspeed-dating-exercise highlighted in this paper, were developed and approved by the Congress organizers, and were not originally planned or conducted for research purposes. However, the opportunity for the planned efforts to become research were recognized and realized. The forum was facilitated by author Diane Mastnardo and was divided into four parts: Part I. Setting the landscape—Big picture introduction and overview of current practice acts, policies, and predicted labor statistics. Part II. Setting the landscape for the Educational Congress: What we have heard from our MUNK: MASSAGE EDUCATION STAKEHOLDER VIEWS 31 International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork—Volume 12, Number 1, March 2019 ● Greetings and introduction to the room’s topic (CE, Schools, or Employment) ● Review of the exercise ● Exercise (detailed below) ● Thanks and next steps Participants who engaged in the entire forum World Café exercise completed the procedures described below a total of three times, once in each framing topic room (Rounds I-III). Participants were administered index cards with two specific room rotation features: 1) card color, and 2) a letter (A, B, C, D) or number (i, ii, iii, iv) which indicated starting room and table assignment and subsequent room rotation assignments. Table 1 is the master rotation assignment schedule that was used and could be adapted to other similar exercises so as to mix participant interactions. At the start of the second and third Round, room facilitators had participants count off 1, 2, 3, 4, a, b, c, d, to indicate at which table (Stop, Start, More, Different) each participant would begin in that room (i.e., 1s and a-s begin at Stop table, 2s and b-s begin at Start table, etc.). For the within-room table rotations, people with letter assignments would rotate to the left and those with number assignments rotated to the right. These inter- and intraround rotation schedules were intended to mix people throughout the process and promote communication comfort, particularly for those with less experience; the fear being that dominant voices and/or personalities would overshadow or intimidate less gregarious or experienced participants. Room assignments were posted in each room, and room facilitators answered questions throughout and managed participant movement between, and within, Round rotations. can be replicated in future conference settings to systematically gather, organize, and consider more related feedback from various groups. This paper aims to provide a descriptive report of the forum exercise’s 1) methods and rationale, 2) participant and participation descriptions, and 3) results for what massage therapy education stakeholders feel is most important to progress the field in a positive direction. The efforts described here reflect a successful collaboration led and facilitated by author DM between a community massage therapist and researcher volunteer, a massage field organization, and a trained professional researcher with the skills, expertise, and resources to design, conduct, analyze, and disseminate research. METHODS Methods described include an online voluntary forum exercise participant descriptor survey, the World Café forum exercise, and the quantitative aspects of the project’s analysis plan. While qualitative data analysis is planned and in progress, only quantitative aspects are included in this initial descriptive report. Online Voluntary Forum Exercise Participant Descriptor Survey During Parts I and II of the 4-hr forum, attendees were asked to access an anonymous REDCap(23) survey via their smartphones, electronic devices or computers, to answer a few descriptive, but nonidentifying, questions. REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies, providing: an intuitive interface for data entry; audit trails for tracking data manipulation and export; and automated export procedures.(23) The survey consisted of six questions collecting respondent’s age, highest level of education,