prosperity? What are the current Employment opportunities in the massage and bodywork field that should be STOPPED to improve the field’s chance of future growth & prosperity? What are the current SCHOOL related practices and policies that should be stopped with regard to training entry level massage and bodywork practitioners? Table 2. Per Round Rotation Time Allotments Rotation Minutes 1 3 2 2.5 3 2 4 1.5 A tapered “speed-dating” approach was used to promote and capture initial, genuine response and discourage potentially distracting rumination. 33 International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork—Volume 12, Number 1, March 2019 RESULTS The forum exercise took approximately 1 hr and 45 min, and occurred after lunch on the first day of the conference. One hundred thirty-four individuals registered for the conference, including several of those who were also affiliated with one of the 22 exhibit booths. Approximately 109 attendees (81%) attended the first two aspects of the forum (nonexercise portion), and 90–95 attendees participated in Rounds I–III for the exercise. Ninety, 87, and 85 attendees provided comments and point allotments in the CE, Employment, and School rooms, respectively. Approximately 100 conference attendees took part in the final forum aspect which discussed the forum exercise and field status in directed roundtable brainstorming activities. The remainder of the results section is broken down into three parts, each addressing this paper’s results dissemination objectives: describe the exercise participants, data gathering exercise procedural descriptive statistics, and top scoring participant provided exercise comments. Participant Descriptors Sixty-five (n = 65) forum attendees/exercise participants accessed and completed the voluntary participant descriptor survey, resulting in an approximate 75% response rate. Respondents ranged in age from 23 to 73 years (mean = 51), and a majority (89%) held an Associate’s degree or higher. Most respondents (86%) were or had been massage therapists, and 61 respondents reported 1.5–45 yrs of experience in, or with, the massage field (respondents averaged 21 years massage experience). Sixty respondents reported 1–45 yrs of experience or involvement in the education field (respondents averaged 16 yrs education experience). Respondents were or had been foundation massage instructors (42%), massage continuing education providers (60%), massage school owners (22%), massage business owners (38%), and massage organization board members (32%). Nonmassage field-related yet relevant roles reported by respondents included chiropractor, RN, social worker, instructors for yoga, chiropractic, aromatherapy, and acupuncture foundation and continuing education training, business recruiter, publisher, and student. Respondents averaged five affiliations each, and 94% reported more than one affiliation. Participant descriptor survey respondents were not asked their gender; however, participant counts collected during the exercise on developed study forms (see Supplementary Materials Appendix B) indicated that approximately 23% (n = 21) of exercise participants were men. Data Gathering Exercise Procedural Descriptive Statistics The data-gathering exercise resulted in 674 total comments distributed among 59 large Post-it notes specifically for the purpose (see Supplementary Materials Appendix B). Analysis Plan Analysis plans were developed by author NM and completed by authors NM and JDD. Voluntary descriptor survey Data from the REDCap survey were exported into an Excel spreadsheet and descriptive statistics were completed using standard Excel statistical features. No identifiers were collected with the survey, nor were survey responses linked to exercise comments or point allocations. World Café exercise data Each Post-it® note sheet was labeled with its breakout session Round, room, and question type between forum Parts III and IV, and displayed for all participants to consider and discuss among themselves. After the forum, the Post-it® note sheets were collected and transported to Indiana University’s IUPUI campus for three further steps of organization and analysis. 1. Data management design: an Excel data system platform for data management and storage was designed and developed for all gathered data from all the exercises. 2. Data entry and organization: each hand-written comment was typed into the project’s master Excel spreadsheet, along with assigned dot numbers and value. Data observation identification numbers were assigned at the comment level, with each comment observation including originating Post-it® note descriptors (specifically, breakout session Round, room focus, and question type). 3. Descriptive statistics: computed with standard Excel statistical features and SAS 9.3 for a) participant counts and awarded points per possible points and per breakout session Round and room focus, and b) comment and point counts per breakout session Round, room focus, and question type, respectively. Descriptive statistics were also computed on the top five scoring comments (45 total extracted comments) from each room during each breakout session Round as a way to quantify what participants determined the most critical points. The top five scoring comments from each room per Round was